Writing a novel, 1-day at a time.
How to eat the elephant, save the frog and more.
I have always fantasized about writing a novel, becoming a novelist has always been a bucket-list goal for me. But at the age of 22, I haven’t written a single novel yet.
Honestly I tried, I wrote a few pages, then hoped to get perfectionist and write the next bestseller but nothing. I lost motivation.
All these fatal attempts made me insecure, and afraid to write long things. So I moved, I started writing answers on quora, I wrote over 300 answers there, gaining half a million views, not the best but something I felt proud of, then I moved to LinkedIn and started writing even smaller and more random posts.
These posts provided me with connections, engagements but didn’t indulge in my long term plans. So, I thought about something, and here we are.
The biggest fear is the fear that is inside, once you bring it outside, maybe you can tackle it better.
With this in my mind, I am hoping to write again random articles, trying my best to stay consistent and write continuously and hope that one day, these will get together and bring me to the flow and context where I can write my first novel.
One other point, before I close this article is, the fact that I am writing it in public, though I think I will not share it until I actually get some flow built, but being in public will add me some pressure to keep going and hopefully get some engagement, next line is fantasy — But maybe a group of people interested in reading and buying on what I write.
Additionally, to be honest, I don’t plan to spend a lot of time in editing these, so kindly ignore the layout and any small errors, Hope it keeps you interested.
Tada,
Mr. Z
