How to Finish Your Book
And why you can’t
Do you have a folder of novel openings? Have you got three chapters into your memoir and, somehow, five years has passed? Do you start books fully believing that you can finish them and then…well…end up abandoning them, afraid that they’re not good enough, original enough or just enough?
I was talking to a fellow author the other day who’s much more experienced than I am. I was describing how I keep getting in my own way with my novel. The book isn’t the problem, I was telling her, it’s me. I keep getting in my own way.
She nodded along, and said, ‘but remember, you’re where you’re supposed to be at this stage.’
If you’d prefer to watch my video on this topic instead of read it, check it out below:
Temporary discomfort
This is far from being unique to writers but writers make an excellent example because it happens to them in most of the work they produce.
We jump into a book, heads brimming with ideas, brilliant characters and fantastic snatches…
