*Note: Copied over from Morning Pages journal vol. 14, personal journal vol. 11, dated 9.23.2024*

Hello and good morning.

Okay, you have your goal. What’s the next step?

A plan. You have your Process (Bullet Journal idea, Field Notes expand, full notebooks/OneNote story composition and outline, First Draft, Red Pen Edits Second Draft, Third Draft write-up, Fourth Draft Fixes, and Fifth Draft following the Beta Readers) and that can take anywhere between three months to a year, depending on how long you sit on the book before finally starting.

But, are you finishing books?

Project TWILIGHT, a YA book, was given so much attention and even a 30-something page Stine Model Outline. You didn’t finish.

Project CLOUD, a MG book, is in its First Draft stage. You changed how you were writing it (from longhand to typing up), hoping it would help you complete the story more easily, then gave up. Time, you considered.

Project MATH, a MG story you were really excited about, has never left the Field Notes stage, even though it could work as the BEST POSSIBLE SPEAR.

Project DEED, a MG novel you think could work as a Graphic Novel, will currently remain a “never known.”

Why?

Because you’re scared of finishing stuff. Projects KIRBY? KING? KING, the ultimate culmination and gathering of all your interests? Don’t you want to bring them to light? To see them completed?

If you feel that way, you’d have to finish them…

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