Hello there, I adore your blog, your writing is amazing! I hope you mind that this isn’t a request, but I wanted to ask something. As a novelist, how do you stay motivated to finish your work? I’m writing a book myself, and I’m rather afraid of losing steam midway through. Thank you! 💙💙
Hi there! No I don’t mind at all! I love it when people talk to me!
I honestly day dream! About my books, about possible future things, plot lines, characters, settings, backstories, everything in between! The more I figure stuff out, the more I want to share it with the world and see people’s reactions!
Another big thing is NaNoWriMo (national novel writers month), but that’s a double edged sword. On one hand, getting a novel done in a month sounds great. On another, life still gets in the way of that sometimes, and I couldn’t participate in this years Nanowrimo as much as I wanted.
But I’ll show you a program that really helps me! If you’ve heard of ZenWriter, I highly recommend it. From a writer’s perspective, it’s full screen and once you get in that writing grove, there’s nothing there to distract you (other than youtube randomly pausing and your friends really wanting to talk to you lol).
(Lil peak at the prologue ohoho).
Plus it’s really fun. I have my keyboard sounds set to type writer for the entire aesthetic.
But really those two play a big part. From daydreaming alone, I have four books planned for the Beast Trials series, and I have to remind myself that there’s always an editing phase where the rough draft gets polished, and I don’t have to worry that much because it’s not perfect the first time around.
And beta readers are more powerful than people give them credit for. After the first edit through (I use Hemmingway Editor for that shit, it’s really helpful), beta readers have a similar power for a novel like a comment and kudos on ao3 does. It suddenly motivates you because it’s like, “what can I do better, oh they really liked this part! oh that makes me so happy that I’m going to break their heart later w this character,” ect ect.
I hoped that helped! I’d love to read some of your stuff sometime! ^^