Day 48: Writing Is a Sacrifice (90-Day Novel Challenge)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- Writing a novel is hard. Really hard. So hard that the vast majority of people who start a project like this one will never finish it.
But you will finish it. You're doing something that most people won't. You're stronger, more resilient, more committed.
Sometimes in order to say "yes" to something, it's helpful to articulate what you're saying "no" to. In order to take the pressure off the next six weeks of writing, ask yourself that question, "What am I saying 'no' to, in order to keep saying 'yes' to this novel project?'"
ASSIGNMENT: Write for one hour. Evaluate your results.
How can you execute on your hour better? How can you improve your tortoise shell?
FOR FURTHER STUDY: Find strategies for doing the work of writing a novel in The Novel Matrix by Brad Pauquette. Learn more and grab your copy at novelmatrix.com.
Still following along, even though I've had to stop trying for the 1 hour each day. I feel like this would have been helpful to have a lot closer to the start of the challenge, because "trying to push through" is exactly what I was doing. If I had had the advice to really think about where that time was going to come from sooner, I might have been able to really think it through and figure out where I was going to sustainably get that time, or realize that I wasn't going to be able to get that right now. I might have actually been able to get through, instead of having to drop out because I couldn't just push anymore.
I'm glad you're still following along and found this video helpful, Katherine!
We can only put out so much content at a time in this format. In a way, I wish I could tell you all of this before you ever started, but that would defeat the purpose of these videos. :-)
Fortunately, I have made practically all of this content available in a number of ways, and so much more. Between The Novel Matrix book, the courses at writers.company, and my articles and newsletter at bradpauquette.com, practically everything I'm saying in these videos is available to you, and more. I encourage you to check out those resources and continue to learn. Not only will that benefit your current project, but you'll take everything you're learning and growing in with you to the next projects, too.
I'm glad you're here, and that the content is so helpful you only wish you had it sooner. So don't wait for it to come to you! Go get it. :-)
@@bradpauquette Fair enough. :)
I don't remember seeing this in the book, but I haven't done much with the site or the newsletter, so it could well have been there.
What if articulating it makes you feel extremely guilty instead of peaceful? That's kind of what's happening for me. I'm at a writing conference with a lot going on so more than 10 hours a week, and my family wants me to do things which are important to us both and I get paid for. So it's a hard question for me.
That's such a good question! I think this is the time to invite the Holy Spirit to show you whether this is conviction from Him, or if it's guilt. If articulating what you're saying no to brings the conviction of the Holy Spirit, that could be a prompting to help you see that your priorities are out of order. Writing is not the most important thing, and it is possible to neglect other parts of our life and obligations. But if it's guilt from the enemy and your priorities are in order, then I think you can safely ignore those "guilty" feelings and ask the Holy Spirit to comfort you and help you through it.