Another day, another thousand words

If you could force yourself to write 1,000 words a day, every day, you could have a novel-length manuscript done in 90 days.

It might not be worth reading - it probably would not be - but I still think it is important to get what is in your brain out on paper (or computer, as the case may be). Once you have it out you can do anything you want with it, including throwing the whole mess away.

More should be thrown away than ever is.

One thing I know for sure is that no one ever spun gold directly from their brain onto paper. Most of the work still has to be done and it is the tedious kind of work. Not the fun stuff.

I would guess that is where I - and maybe most everyone else - fail. I am not rigorous enough with the words after they are on paper. You can't just write an average novel (poem or short story, either)and get it published. It has to be something special.

I'm still working on that.

Rejection project update: 42,836 words in 152 pages.

Yours in rejection,

Phil