Two months of audio.
Lifting the veil on a writing life #8
This is episode eight, I’ve been doing this for two months!
I never intended to be doing audio. And yet these weekly updates are helping me push through editing this novel.
I hope in some way this audio diary is helping others too. Let me know your thoughts below.
When I relistened to this episode, I realised how much I’ve been doing behind the scenes. I don’t think I give myself credit sometimes for how much I do when people can’t see it, y’know?
This week I chat about;
Making it halfway through this edit.
Moving all my eggs to the Substack basket.
How the UK heatwave has affected me.
This week’s photograph is from a couple of months back at Treacle Market in Macclesfield. Glorious fungi!
*TOO* familiar with the mid-section puzzles.
So empathy coming your way.
Like you I journal my way out or through. Where I literally write questions to myself, asking what needs to happen here? What am I missing? What if I try this, that or the other?
And then I leave the journal and do mundane shit not in anyway related to the book or writing. This untethers my unconscious and usually, after a spell, ideas/solutions arise.
But only after I’ve suffered through a bout of doubt. 😂 I’ve come to see this as an alchemical process regarding loss of faith and then the joy of re-finding it — and the book’s direction. It’s so peculiar.
Really lovely to listen to such a relatable experience. I’m on the first draft of a novel struggling not to start all over again because the middle is getting difficult. Hoping I can make it through all the bad feelings and self doubt that come along with it. Best of luck and I hope the heat gets more bearable