Encouragement

Here are the three little words you want to hear while writing your book:

Don't Give Up.

Whatever it takes, try to get in that thousand words, that 1k per week. You owe it to yourself, even if after you finish the book and reread it you think it's crap. Even if you have doubts while you're writing it, just keep plugging away at it. The msot important thing here is not how well you write (just do a spell check after each session to make sure you can read and understand the words after you finish the book to make the revisino easier, I'm a miserable typist I can empathise, that's hat I do) but that you actually manage to write it all the way thruogh to the end.

It is not gonig to be easy, trust me. At times you will feel like tearing out your hair by its roots. You'll be tempted to smash your computer against the wall from frustration because the words jsut won't seem to flow.

I have been there, I feel your pain. Trust me, it gets like that -- but don't give up. Also, don't smash your computer againtst the wall, it's not the computer's fault. It's not yors either. There are many techniques for overcoming writer's block, and the bulk of them involve writing something.

If oyu g oto poetry.com the site has quite a bit on writing poetry and haiku and the like. this is one diversion. If it helps then you can write a part of your story in limerick or haiku form and go revise it later.

The important thing is to keep writing. ;-)