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Hey there girl,
I’ve been avoiding this topic for a while now but I think it’s high time we have a serious chat about finishing that novel you keep talking about.
I know, I know — you’ve been a bit busy lately. But tomorrow or Monday, or sometime next month you’ll get around to it. But here’s the thing — and I think you should sit down for this — this is why you can’t finish your novel.
You Can’t Pick Just One
Having ideas is great, but it can also be distracting. Very distracting.
You have, at least, 20 looked-at-once-and-never-opened-again partial manuscripts, another 10 or so that you’ve visited several times, plus a running list of ideas-on-top-of-ideas, and a handful of drafts that over the years you’ve revisited, but the furthest you’ve ever gotten is about 14,000 words.
Not a great writing track record.
Your problem isn’t that you’re not passionate about your pieces, it’s that you’re passionate about many of them and get caught up in the overwhelm of choosing just one to work on. So you end up choosing none.
Note to Self: Pick one and run with it, the rest will be there when you get back.
