work on my novel

I had the majority of my novel on a flash drive so that I could always have it with me. I kept in my wallet.

And my wallet was stolen Thursday night.

So now I have to collect and find all my novel work that I email to myself. All that I had on my computer at home, I saved on my flash drive because I needed more memory on the computer.

Sigh, so I lost a bit, I think I won’t know until I got through all my Nanowrimo folders in my email, which last year I had a habit of emailing each section wrote to myself so that it would be safe online, and not lost if I lost it off my computer and lost my flash drive.

I just don’t think that any work that I have done on my novel since Nanowrimo, I have updated it with hotmail.

Time with tell.

I didn’t do any writing last night. I worked more on the research part of it, which is still working on my novel. Today I will try to write at least 2,000 words since I need to catch up from yesterday “writing”

I got in contact with some people on Yahoo writing group I am apart of. In order to find a person that can be become my accountability buddy for writing. Someone that can email me regularly and maybe talk to me on Yahoo messenger to see how my writing is coming, as well as encourage then to write as well. I am very excited about connecting with some people for this purpose!

I am moving forward which is always a good thing. It is when I stop writing and working on it everyday that prevents me from accomplishing this goal.

I must remember a mile always starts with just a single step at a time.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

-Aristotle

Working on the novel can be hard work, because a person has to pull motivation and encouragment from within. And at times, that can be very hard to find.

I focused on my novel yesterday a bit, and of course, I had no idea where to start, since it all seems very overwhelming, but I took something very simple and used it. Before I knew it, I had written a little over 1,000 words.

That is a good start, after about months of written silence! I guess It was easy for me yesterday since my novel takes a bit of research in words and with my Bible, so I just became the Character more when I was in the past. It made it easy to write. I hope to do it again today.

My current goal is to work on writing on my novel at least 5 days this week, plus do a little bit of Biblical research as well so it is more well rounded and sound.

I hope that God gives me the strength and encouragment I need to really accomplish this goal. I talked to a friend last night about my novel and I spoke about how I would really like to have it published. I guess in the past, I never really had an urge to have anything published, because I don’t think my writing is all that good. But God has moved me to write this novel and I know if He is moving me, then it is for a reason.

I hope I do a good job.