“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
A lovely quote Spidey, very fitting for my recent achievements too!
As many of you know, I finally finished writing my first draft on my WIP – my 18-year-old writing project.
I wrote seven chapters before starting the blog in November 2014. Those seven chapters had been crafted fourteen years previously.
That was when my novel dream was born.
And I continued to dream, but life, and maybe an element of laziness crept in.
I mentioned my idea and fledgeling manuscript to a few friends and family members who were encouraging, but I still didn’t actually do anything with it.
Instead, I had babies, then restarted my teaching career.
But my book baby?
That story wasn’t going to write itself.
Plucking courage from the support of fellow bloggers, I posted those chapters, in order to get some feedback and an idea as to whether it was something worth pursuing.
Boy, did those of you who read it give me a jolt! (In a really positive way!)
I needed to continue it! And I talked (wrote) about it incessantly, but another 2 years went by before I actually took to the screen again, to try and achieve my dream.
My #RiNoWriMo project in August added another 60,000 words to the project, and I was exhausted. It wasn’t finished, but I could see the end!
It took another seven months before I took to it again, but I did a lot of ‘talking’ about my teenage WIP… and how I wanted to finish it… before finally taking that last step and getting to the end.
So, instead of talking too much more, I embarked on a Camp RiNo, and just went for it.
And now, I have that full first draft manuscript in my hands, it feels so good!
The dream of publishing it is still a little while away, but the fact that I have a full story written is the first, huge step that I have taken to reach my goal.
And I WILL get there!
Is there anything you have really wanted; a dream you wish to fulfil, or a goal you want to achieve? Tell me about it in the comments, then start planning how you can actually reach it!!!
Stay positive 🙂
Happy Sunday Peeps!
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