As a writer I strive for perfection. I spend hours struggling to come up with the 'right' name for my secondary character and days coming up with perfectly tragic ending to my novel. As a writer I want to run away and hide when I miss a word or a comma in a sentence that was supposed to be The Turning Point in my plot. So I get frustrated, a lot. The words just don't come out write 70% of the time. But that's okay. If you're a young writer or new to writing fiction, you can't expect to write like someone who's been writing for fifteen years when you've only been writing for four. Improving your craft takes practice. A lot of practice. It also takes commitment. That's a tough one, especially when ten thousand different story ideas are poring out of your mind per second. That's actually a good thing, if you can still keep your focus on the novel at hand. I have a problem with that.... To much genius more out of my head, I need to find the plug. The point is, it's okay to not be perfect. Nobody's perfect. There is no perfect way to write fiction, however, there is a good way and a bad. Work on your craft. Brush up on your character arcs, put a little humor in the life of your protagonist, make sure the antagonist is treated with due respect in your plot. Things like that. If you want to be published work on perfecting your novel, not to perfection of course, but to the best it possibly can be. Who knows? Maybe in heaven all us writers will finally get the chance to write the perfect novel but until then, keep working! Writing is work, and fun, and lots of other things.
Happy writing slash reading!
Learning and aspiring writer for God's glory,
- J.C.
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