Things I learned this past week about writing.

[Neoma]

An authors real job is to turn shit into gold. But first, they have to write the shit. It's heart wrenching because while you're writing it you think, "this is the stupidest crap I've ever written." and that's why people usually abandon their works.

The second thing I learned is that your first or eighth book might never see the light of day. This is a good thing. Why? Because now you've gotten your practice in.

You're also better off if you ignore punctuation in your first draft while you're writing, just because you might write faster that way. Point is to get the structure of the plot down (if you don't know what you're writing about.) There's a reason why authors throw out the first book and rewrite it. Because you always write something better the second time around.

Start with 4 pages a day, and you'll have a book in what, 3 months?