One of the key differences between the original draft of Revelation, back in 1996, and the current one shouldn’t be a difference at all. In 1996 I was out-processing from the Air Force, going from appointment to appointment and scribbling in my planner in between. I wrote anywhere and anywhen I could, sometimes for pages, sometimes just a few sentences.
This time around I seem fixated on “writing sessions”, sitting down with a formal commitment to write. The key problem with that is that I rarely have time, and wen I do have several hours without other commitments, I fall asleep. While I may love the idea of “making time to write” and settling in to pound out several thousand words at a stretch, it just isn’t going to happen. I work two jobs and have an active social calendar with several weekly recurring engagements. If I’m going to write, I have to write when I have the opportunity, even if it means just getting a couple sentences down. That’s still better than nothing, and if I get down a dozen words or so 10,000 times, I’ll have a whole novel. I don’t plan on writing only a dozen word at a time, but if I keep rejecting those opportunities, I might not write much of anything at all.
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