I admire those people who can keep a blog going and write a novel at the same time.\u00a0 I’ve realised I can’t do it.\u00a0 It’s got to be one or the other.\u00a0 I’m still getting the ducks in a row but there’s always one that refuses to come down when called.<\/p>\n
Steven King advises:<\/p>\n
Write with the door closed.\u00a0 Rewrite with the door open.<\/p>\n
Sound advice and I pass it on for your use if needed.<\/p>\n
He also said:\u00a0 don’t seek praise from groups.\u00a0 It only feeds your ego.\u00a0 You’ve got to stand aside to let your novel grow.<\/p>\n
I can’t better this advice so I’m not feeling too guilty about leaving off for a while until I get a respectable number of words down.<\/p>\n
Remember the Saxon salaute in Hangman Blind <\/em><\/strong>?\u00a0 Ge be!<\/p>\n Till next time.<\/p>\n I think this is Day 9 by the way.\u00a0 I’ll keep a tally out of interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I admire those people who can keep a blog going and write a novel at the same time.\u00a0 I’ve realised I can’t do it.\u00a0 It’s got to be one or the other.\u00a0 I’m still getting the ducks in a row but there’s always one that refuses to come down when called. Steven King advises: Write with the door closed.\u00a0 Rewrite with the door open. Sound advice and I pass it on for your use if needed. He also said:\u00a0 don’t seek praise from groups.\u00a0 It only feeds your ego.\u00a0 You’ve got to stand aside to let your novel grow. I<\/p>\n[Read More...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraclark.co.uk\/casscb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}