Hi! I don't write as my "day job" but I do write for publication. My debut is coming out next year from Razorbill/Penguin as part of a two book deal. It is my "career goal", of course-- i'm hoping within 5-10 years to write full time, but as I have a FABU job during the day, this may not happen that quickly for mr.
Anyway, as far as motivation, I wrote down my three favorite "rules" and posted them over my computer when I first started
1) Don't get it right, gett it written! 2)Give yourself permission to write crap. Crap can be fixed. 3) You can not fix a blank page. (See #1)
Basically, three ways to tell you to stop being a perfectionist and just write it down. :-)
I also wrote, "Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."
In other words-- you dont have to be the best at something to do it.
Writing is a process of revision. You just have to follow the "but in chair, hands on keyboard" rule and stick with it. It pays off in the end.
Oh, and last, since you sound like (at one point) you'll be querying-- don't say stuff like "fiction novel" and "non-fiction novel".
Fiction novel is redundant. Novels are always fiction. Non-fiction novel is contradictory-- what you're talking about is a memoir or "narrative non-fiction".
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Date: 2008-08-16 07:41 pm (UTC)Anyway, as far as motivation, I wrote down my three favorite "rules" and posted them over my computer when I first started
1) Don't get it right, gett it written!
2)Give yourself permission to write crap. Crap can be fixed.
3) You can not fix a blank page. (See #1)
Basically, three ways to tell you to stop being a perfectionist and just write it down. :-)
I also wrote, "Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."
In other words-- you dont have to be the best at something to do it.
Writing is a process of revision. You just have to follow the "but in chair, hands on keyboard" rule and stick with it. It pays off in the end.
Oh, and last, since you sound like (at one point) you'll be querying-- don't say stuff like "fiction novel" and "non-fiction novel".
Fiction novel is redundant. Novels are always fiction. Non-fiction novel is contradictory-- what you're talking about is a memoir or "narrative non-fiction".