There comes a point in almost everything I work on when I want to give up. I want to quit. I think to myself, this will never work. I think to myself, what is wrong with you? I think to myself, start over you fool. Quit wasting time.
Actually, this isn’t something I just think about writing. I’ve thought it at other times, too. We all do. But with writing—it happens with nearly every novel I try to write. I’ll be writing a first draft in all of its unwieldy and maddeningly imprecise glory and I’ll feel I’m on the wrong road. I came to a split in the road somewhere earlier in the draft and I took the less traveled road and look what happened? I’m hopelessly lost.
Most of the time I struggle through. Most of the time I push on and it’s the right decision. Writing a novel is a messy business. Sometimes you just have to get messy.
Or so I think today.
In Alien News: Here’s my book trailer--
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This dead end road is why we have this online community of writers to prevent us from a) going completely insane and/or
b)giving in to our insanity and stopping writing.
Note to self, both very, very bad!
Great trailer by the way, can I push it out to my friends?
Yep, it's nice to have writer friends. Thanks. And thanks about the trailer. Yeah, push it out. That would be great.
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