Novel writing

Over the last week I feel like I have done really well; I have written four short stories-two of which are totally finished and the other two just need a couple of paragraphs adding to make the story complete. I will be sending one off to a magazine and the other three are for my short story collection I am hoping to have published on the Kindle.

Another thing I ave also been looking into is starting a novel. No matter how much writing I do, all I can think of is writing a novel; to fulfill my dream. It is like I need to write a novel for myself, to prove that I can have my dream.
Even if I just dedicate a few hours a week to writing my novel, I think it will subside my need to do it. I am really enjoying writing short stories and I think it will be quite difficult to get out of that frame of mind; in order to write a novel.

I have been working on a few ideas and I have discovered I really have no confidence in myself. When it comes to short stories, I know that my ideas are strong enough to fill those 3000 words I intend to write, but when it comes to writing a 100,000 work novel I am afraid that my idea will not be strong enough to survive this much writing.

I know I have to take the plunge and the story might take a twist of it's own, without me even having planned it. I am hoping that is what will happen anyway, because 100,000 seems a lot to write about one idea. Although I have been reading a lot more and books do not necessarily focus around one single idea, they go off on tangents that are linked to the story but give another thing to think about. So maybe my story will stand on its own legs, and make it into the big wide world.

Only time will tell, so I guess I best get writing...

Blog List

I have spent the last hour or so making a page on my blog for a blog list. I have included all the blogs I read and follow; most of which are from the Creative Writing Support Group and The Writers Bureau.

I have realised that if I help others to get their blogs recognised, they may well do the same for me and I could certainly do with some recognition. Over the last week or so I have neglected my blog, my writing and my course. Now I see that if I really do want this to be a full time career I need to pull my finger out and get working.

I need to apply to more competitions, send off more readers letters, write more short stories and finally get on with starting my novel. However, I have also realised that none of this will be any use to me if I do not promote myself as a writer, so here I am blogging, because let's face it-we all have to start out somewhere.

I never knew how hard it would be to write a novel. I thought I would sit down at my computer every day and within a few months I would have a novel waiting to be sent off to a publisher. How wrong was I?