I started my writing session by transcribing everything I had written longhand yesterday. When everything was digitalized, I was positively surprised to discover that I had written a little over one thousand words yesterday.
The act of transcribing in itself had a very positive effect on me, because by reading everything I had written the previous day, and by retyping it into Scrivener today, my head had the time to slowly immerse itself in the story, and by the time I had reached the end of my transcription, my fingers simply kept on going.
I’m currently in a part of my novel that I’ve been looking forward to for a long time. In fact, it may be the part that made me want to write the novel in the first place, and I am so happy to finally be working on it.
Of course, this stage comes with its own challenges, as now I feel the pressure to write something as good as what I’ve been picturing for so long, and I know that this kind of feeling tends to lead me to the state of perfection paralysis.
That’s why I’m doing my best to be very aware of how I’m feeling, I’m trying to keep the pressure as low as possible, and I’m forcing myself to keep my writing as simple as possible.
Once again, my goal for right now isn’t to write a perfect novel, but rather to get the whole story out. Once it exists, I will have reached the stage in which I can go over my manuscript as many times as necessary in order to shape, carve out, and polish everything. But for now, my focus is on getting the words down and building the complete sketch of my novel from start to finish.
(I’m aware that this post is being published one day late 🙈. Yesterday was a busy day and I totally forgot about the post after finishing my writing session… But hey, here I am now. Better late than never, I guess 😅)