I got out of my funk and added five more short stories to ficly.com today. I say stories but really they're scenes. It's roughly the equivalent of writing 1000 words. I read Stephen King's On Writing a couple of years ago and remember him saying that his recipe for being a good writer is to read for about 6 hours a day and then write 2000 words. I am not at that point, but it does sound like a good goal to eventually try to live up to.
Adding scenes to ficly.com feels like great practice for eventually tackling larger chunks of writing. I'm going to try and write 5 stories a day on there for the next week.
I'm still not sure what I want my first book to be about. I have a lot of conflicting images, story ideas & characters in my head. The old saying goes that every one has at least one book inside of them, for me it's more like I have about 20 or 30 paragraphs inside of me that don't really have anything to do with each other.
Not to worry though, it's still early days. Right?
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