A New Year And A New Draft!


Happy New Year everyone!!

A couple days ago I finished writing the second draft of Dark Fire book 1!!
Now I need to finish the first draft of book 2. I have written about 14,000 words out of 35,000.  But I really don't feel like finishing it right now. Writing is hard and I'm lazy! I especially find the middle of the book hard to write because it's not the excitement of starting nor does it contain the conflict and conclusion of the ending. I know stuff needs to happen, but I don't know what!

Anyway, here's a few writing quotes for encouragement:

When you are in the middle of a story it isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It’s only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else. - Margaret Atwood

Every writer I know has trouble writing. - Joseph Heller

You must write for yourself and not what you think people what to read. - Jodie Ellen Malpas


~CH~

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