Writing a Book
Writing a book
seems like the easiest thing in the world. “I’m writing a book”. Such an easy
thing to say. Not an easy thing to actually do.
In addition to
publishing my poetry in 2013 I am writing a book. I hope to have it completed
by this time next year and have it ready to sell in 2014.
I am finding
that writing a book is not the easiest thing in the world. In fact, for me, I’m
finding it very difficult. I know the story I want to tell: “Girl meets boy,
boy meets girl, boy changes girl’s life forever”. However actually telling the
story is proving to be a tedious task.
I have never
written a book before, and have never written a story before. I know the story,
I know how I want to tell it, I know what I want to convey. But actually
getting from point A to point B is quite the challenge.
I find myself
getting lost in the dialogue. It can be very confining and tedious. I also find
that every writer’s friends, “Criticism” and “Doubt” are at every corner. I
just have to tell the story. I’ll critique it and clean it up after it is
written.
If I get this
done, if I write the book, tell the story I wanted to tell and publish it, it
will be the most daunting achievement of my literary career.
As a good friend
told me, “It doesn’t matter when you finish the book, just finish it.”
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