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So this, the first of my personal updates on writing and my quest for the meaning life, finds me at around 55 000 words into my first novel.<\/p>\n

I remember well when I started writing. It was around Christmas 2015 and for some reason, I got it into my head that I was going to write a book. I’d seen adverts for James Patterson’s Masterclass<\/a> on writing and the idea appealed to me, so off I went, writing the first scene in this book of mine and reading it out proudly to my friends and family who happened to be staying with us.<\/p>\n

A familiar start for many, and what follows was just as much a cliche, as I spent the next 12 months writing, plotting, outlining, second-guessing my story, re-outlining and writing some more. I’ve learned tons about writing since then, and have learned even more about myself as a creative being. The way that inspiration struck, how that inspiration provided the fuel for motivation,\u00a0and then how discipline needed to take over and finish the race.<\/p>\n

It’s that last part that has seen me battle my distracted self, sometimes winning, sometimes losing, but always up for being a writer.<\/p>\n

All writers suffer from doubt, but I think I’ve seen enough of the world to know how it works and to know that I can be successful, even if I’m not a Stephen King.<\/p>\n

What stands in my way, is finishing.<\/p>\n

What stands in my way, is lack of follow-through.<\/p>\n

What stands in my way, is me.<\/p>\n

But because I know this fact, and know it intimately, and because I’ve studied it with a curious nature, you could say…I am up for the fight.<\/p>\n

You might also say that in this aspect, I am self-aware, as pretentious as that sounds.<\/p>\n

I’ll say what my book is about in a later post, but for now, I feel inspired and on fire. I am going to finish this thing, and what’s more, it is going to be the first of many.<\/p>\n

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