I’m going to come back to this website because it turns out that none of my ‘writer friends’ ever actually write, or talk about writing. I don’t think I’ve met a single writer who ever wrote, in fact.
But let’s ignore this for now and get on with my own shit.
I am currently around two-and-a-half chapters towards the end of Part One (really, it’s all one book, but I’ve split it into the three major time shifts so that it makes sense in my brain), and I’m about to complete one of the scene blocks in that half-chapter today.
What’s a scene block?
I’ll maybe get into that later.
For now, all I have to do is add a few more transitional sentences, clear up the mess I’ve made into real-life English, and then save and back up that file. And buy more printer ink, because I like to have the physical draft beside me while I work.
Last night, I was reading a book about a guy who is a writer (and I won’t say who it is, or what the book is, because he’s still alive), but it wasn’t very good, if I’m honest. That being said, it was recommended to me by a friend, so I’ll shuffle my way to the finish line – just very quickly this time.
Thinking back to my own writing now.
Why am I still here? Why am I still alive? Is it to write this agonising crawl of a book just to say that I’ve finished a book? That’s the problem I’m facing. For better or worse, I am here whilst others (who are ultimately better) are not, and my aim or goal or whatever cannot be to ‘write a book’. It has to be a bloody good book, or there was no point to any of this at all.
Ha, you may say, you’ve discovered your own meaning of life, or maybe you haven’t.
I would say that I haven’t, to be honest. I’m just trying to make it to the end. Just like my book.
The difference being that I actually enjoy the journey of my book.
I’ve got a race to run on Sunday (I’ve gotten into cross-country running, didn’t you know?), and will need some proper trail running shoes, but after that I’m going to get this half-chapter out and spend the rest of the day either exercising or reading. Or both.