I. AM. WRITING. A. NOVEL! I decided to shut the hell up and just do it. I spend the past week gathering my ideas into an outline, doing what little research I needed, and starting. I needed a week with a clear head of nothing else, no advertising for the blog, no posting anything, just purely writing nothing but ideas and prose for the story. I will be back to my regularly scheduled updates starting well, now, with my final review for Delirium tomorrow.
Some of you may be wondering, "Hey, what caused you to FINALLY break down and start writing?" Well that is a fantastic question and my answer is simple: Jackson Pearce. No, I don't know her personally, I REALLY wish I did though, I feel we would totally be friends. Truthfully after reading Sisters Red I found her website, and thereby stumbled upon her vlog (Video Blog) and instantly fell more in love (Not in a creepy stalker way, I promise!). Jackson is fun, entertaining, barely older than I am, and does what she loves. I admire her for that. I spent hours watching her vlogs, all the way from the beginning and was inspired.
Jackson Pearce flat out says in one of her Vlogs (This is not a direct quote I'm summarizing) 'Hey, if you wanna write a novel, do it! Even if you only have time to write for 30 minutes a day, you still have time, everything else is just an excuse.' AND SHE IS RIGHT. I've been putting all my story ideas off for so long, I've forgotten how good it feels to write again, no matter how frustrating it is. I am the only one in my own way, and I stopped that!
I have given myself a deadline though. I gave myself a month (possibly a teeny bit of extra leeway) to finish the rough draft. Now this is not a draft I plan on showing to anyone (except for one person who is getting the unedited copy because I'm afraid of how much I'll trash it in edits), hell looking over what I wrote I possibly want to burn it, it needs a LOT of work. I am hand writing it to keep it safe from the DELETE key on my computer. As soon as I am done, in one month, I will then begin revising it to make it even marginally better for my first readers. I promise to keep all of you up to date with how I am doing, exact word counts when I type what I hand write once a week, and my frustrations and journey.
So, a BIG props to Jackson Pearce for inspiring me, THANK YOU, for entertaining me for HOURS with your Vlog, and book Sisters Red. Basically as soon as I had written the first 1000 words of my work in progress, I went and ordered her other two books. Even when The Violet Corner becomes popular, and publishers and authors send me their ARCs, books to review, and everything else, I will buy Jackson's books (even if I get a free review copy). Seriously, because even if it takes me years to get published, Jackson's words via videos, her motivation, she spoke to me, I can't help but want to support her for her hard work and dreams, and hope one day I can be following my dream as well. Her words were like a wake-up call and my brain is finally waking up.
Seriously, go buy her books now, she's awesome (and so are her books)!
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You can do it!!!
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