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napoleonherselfOnce upon a time I realized that I was apparently writing a book. And I wrote it and wrote it, and sometimes it was all I wanted to do and other times I avoided it for days or weeks because I was in a hard part and I didn't want to have to dig myself out. And then apparently the last time I did anything on it was... um... last May.
And the days and weeks piled up, and turned into a month, and then two, but I kept telling myself that it didn't mean the book was dead. I was in the middle, you know? The middle is lame. The middle is boring. The middle is the hardest part, because the beginning is when you introduce your characters and set things up and you're all super-excited about how things are going to unfold, and then the end is when all the best stuff happens, the guy gets the girl or the heroes defeat the villain or whatever it is that makes the whole book worth writing (or reading) in the first place. Writing the middle sucks. Everyone knows that.
And while I still cared about my characters, and still had all kinds of things in mind for when I got to that super-sweet end bit, my "it's the middle, I'll get back to it once I've had a chance to think about it some more" period was up to five months and counting.
Then last week I handwrote seven pages front-and-back. Almost 4,000 words! And I checked and now the grand total is over 52,000.
That is a lot of words.
It's not like I'm out of the middle yet, because there's still plenty more of it to go. But I proved to myself that I'm not stuck, either.
I also proved to myself that there is DEFINITELY going to have to be some editing of content, since at this rate the entire thing will be like 100k, and that right there is a TOME.
Yaaaay writing.
And the days and weeks piled up, and turned into a month, and then two, but I kept telling myself that it didn't mean the book was dead. I was in the middle, you know? The middle is lame. The middle is boring. The middle is the hardest part, because the beginning is when you introduce your characters and set things up and you're all super-excited about how things are going to unfold, and then the end is when all the best stuff happens, the guy gets the girl or the heroes defeat the villain or whatever it is that makes the whole book worth writing (or reading) in the first place. Writing the middle sucks. Everyone knows that.
And while I still cared about my characters, and still had all kinds of things in mind for when I got to that super-sweet end bit, my "it's the middle, I'll get back to it once I've had a chance to think about it some more" period was up to five months and counting.
Then last week I handwrote seven pages front-and-back. Almost 4,000 words! And I checked and now the grand total is over 52,000.
That is a lot of words.
It's not like I'm out of the middle yet, because there's still plenty more of it to go. But I proved to myself that I'm not stuck, either.
I also proved to myself that there is DEFINITELY going to have to be some editing of content, since at this rate the entire thing will be like 100k, and that right there is a TOME.
Yaaaay writing.
