Christian Fiction discussion

Well, hang in there. What I've always heard was to just write. Don't worry about how it sounds or flows. Just write. None of my manuscripts resemble my original one very much so for now, just get words on the paper. It kind of kick starts itself.

hahaha, I hear you, but after going through, oh, I'd have to say at least twenty full edits and rewrites, not counting what the publisher's editor had to say, I say, just blather on, and the refining will come. Trust me on that!

yes, if you mean writing. My problem is making myself sit down and do it. The editing process, I guess that gets easier too as you learn what to avoid and what to look for when you are editing.

Its too bad the OP'er was deleted and the question does not remain. I assume it was about the frustration to write things well and get it completed...and then published.

As an author, I have a lot of experience with this. I've been on that quest for perfection, and I've let many project take a very long time to compete. And it is frustrating, cause you do spend time looking at it and knowing you can do better.

But I am past that stage now, and can offer this to any reading in the future.

I have a strategy for writing. Its called, promise to write one sentence a day. Just one <--pause for dramatic effect. Everything after that is just gravy. You can write one or many, but always keep yourself to the promise of one. (It does not even have to be a keeper).

Why is this effective? Cause its an easy promise to keep, and it lets you go to bed everyday feeling like you did it, and not like you failed. And those feeling go a long way to sticking with it.

I also have some rules.

1) Write Every Day.
2) Finish it.
3) Dont seek feedback till its finished.

Those will help you get to a completed work more than anything I know.

Along with those rules above, I have a saying I repeat in my head every time I feel stuck. It goes like this "Write it ugly."

Write it ugly works. Why? well, one, cause its never as ugly as you first think and two, its so much easier to edit when you have it on paper in the first place.

Another saying...Words on page beats thinking about words on page.

Live it...write...be an author.