About a month since I last visited this lonely little blog.
I’m on a roll!
Anyway, how’s things in your world, dear reader?
My fiction writing life is pretty much non-existent…my client writing life is in charge.
Why?
Choices, I’m afraid.
So does that mean I’m giving up writing fiction?
Hell no!
As always, it means I’ve got to:
- Be real with what I can accomplish in a given day
- Show up to write my fiction just as I show up to write and manage blog posts, social media, team bios, website updates, etc., etc.
- Not take my fiction so seriously. Words are not precious. If I don’t like them, give ’em the axe and make more! I do it without hesitation on my non-fiction stuff, so why should fiction be any different? Hint: it’s not!!!
To be fair, I do a bit of procrastination on my client writing stuff…it’s a common theme to put things off until they absolutely, positively, must be done.
I don’t recommend this strategy.
So my single goal for my fiction writing today, tomorrow and into the forseeable future is simple…show up, every time, to do the writing, just like I show up to do the work that feeds me and my family.
I believe that thinking of the fiction writing as “practice” (as Dean Wesley Smith recommends) is helpful, but as I was writing this blog something occurred to me…I edited each and every sentence as I wrote it before moving on.
This is a bad habit (or is it?) that slows me down.
Of course, once I’ve finished writing, I go back through yet again and edit a bit more.
What do you think? Do you think it’s really “bad” to edit as you go?
