The closer to finishing something the faster your heart beats and the harder you work. It gives you a heart stopping wrench of hope.

I can say, through experience, your first novel will be the best thing ever, the feeling you get when your nearly there, it can never be beaten. Im sure your aware writing the actual novel is the easy bit, it when you start the editing it get hard. Once you get into it you find there are the same mistakes all the way through and you have to change all of them. I know it can sometimes feel like a never ending task.

But you know it can always be made easier when you have someone who knows what they are doing and what they are looking for, they will clue you into what your doing. I know what you look at it the pages of your novel, when you don't know what your looking at it looks perfect.

I did that, thought it was perfect, but realised there were a billion mistakes, and I'm sure every writer who had just started out did the same. It's all about leaning, you have to learn the things you need to look at. You have to be patient with it.

Not only patience but also dedication, some people can do the task, but there are a few who can't because they are not 100% in the task. For you to be the best you can be you need to look inside yourself to find you are ready for it. To be a writer there might be a certain amount of fear. I don't want to admit this, but when i first started i was scared about what i was meant to do, if i was good enough. I didn't know what i was meant to do if they said it wasn't good enough.
But of course they didn't, but its that first and last step where you need to show your true feelings about the novel. I know after all the work I've put in I am going to publish it, but there is also the fear of people not really being bothered about it. But i guess there is always family.

It will be a bumpy ride for you, i know it was for me, but there are always people who you know who wont care, they wont be bothered because they don't know the work going into the novel. I know it will dishearten you to hear this, but its not what I'm trying to do, I just want to make you aware, but you have to rise above and get past it.

let the world of myths and legend open up to you, there are a million different things you could write, wither is be a fantasy, thriller, crime, anything, just get an idea and run with it. No matter how daft it might sound in the beginning. It will work out as you get deeper into it.

I am doing this post because i know as a writer, some need to have a little bit of encouragement. It is hard and it feels like its never going to end, but once you get the hang of it, the task will get a little bit easier as you get through it. If you are reading this, then just take a moment to think about why you are writing, just remember why you started writing in the first place. Always keep that in mind, don't forget why.

Thank you,
J.A.M