Find the Right Story for You to Write

Recently I was struggling to hit my goal of 1,000 words a day. I had fallen in love with this idea for a story I had, but then when I sat down to write it I felt like I was pulling teeth to get words on the page.

I thought I had more in me to flesh put the idea but when I went to mapping out the novel I realized I had one book and not two. That one book may also not hit the 80,000 word count I needed.

I shelfed it.

I had to put it on the back burner and work on something else. The idea will always be there for later when creativity is flowing just right for me to be able to write.

I decided to start a whole new story from scratch. All I had was a general idea in mind and started writing. I didn't map anything out or plan anything. I just started writing, coming up with it as I went.

I wrote 5,000 words in that first day! That is a crazy amount for me.

From this I learned to not be afraid to put a story down to work on a different one. I also learned that my writing comes more naturally when I don't over plan it.

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Worried for Nothing?

Recently I was struggling worried, Am I Cut Out to be an Indie Author? Last week I started writing a new story since I was really struggling with the last concept that I had. In my first week of writing I wrote 20,000 words! That is insane, I didn't even know I was capable of putting up those types of numbers. I doubt this pace is maintainable but maybe I can get my number of books released per year up to four after all and cut the time to get to 20 books down from 10 year to 5 years. I am going to keep pushing through and try not to stress too much. I still think waiting until I have a few books ready to release before putting anything out is a good idea. That way I get into the habit and mindset of written without an expectation of return on investment.

Dreams on Hold

They say there is a time and place for everything. Sadly no just isn't the right time to chase this dream. Hopefully the economy will get better and I will be able to have the free time again to work on my writing. Right now I need to pick up a second job on top of everything I am already doing to help cover expenses. Ideally this only last for about six months, but I don't know for sure. The dream is there. It isn't dead it is just on hold once again.

Ups and Downs to word count

The first seven days of writing my new story I put down 23,000 words. Then a lot of life happened and I had four straight days of 0 words. Thankfully I had been crushing it that first week and am still where I need to be a with the stretched goal pass of 1,500 words a day. Before I was excited by just how much I was able to get done and was even think that I may be able to finish faster than the 54 day stretch goal. That was always a miracle goal though. My reasonable deadline for myself is 90 days. This way I can write three books a year and use the remaining days on editing and marketing. I am learning to be patient with myself and that my production isn't always going to be linear.

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