I've finished writing a book: how I'm keeping myself busy in between querying
Daunting, fighting imposter syndrome, ecstatic, excited, tense, optimistic and reconciled that whatever happens, happens! But I won't be sitting on my laurels. One of the aspects of falling into the writing rabbit hole was that time did fly by until my novel was completed (a few drafts and many edits later). For my close friends reading this, I apologise for my incognito state; I was simply obsessing over getting it finished, and as you know me well…a deadline is still a deadline! Hence, the best advice given by my mentor and writing communities is to start writing the next one.
Keep writing, plot (with hand on heart, I plot to the nth degree) and get the outline sorted. Sit down, write one chapter a week. Connect with what propels you to write.
Take a short course, continue connecting online; the digital world is waiting…there is so much to do and too many new people to meet.
Plan what the next [xx insert time here] looks like. My marketing background does have its perks. Strategising and building my [brand] fuelled my excitement of the 'what if' and allowed me to formulate what the path to publishing looks like.
Connect with your communities, support your peeps, do your due diligence and #keepreading…everything and anything. Your second novel could lead into the third and fourth, and so forth. I'm giving back to my mentor, and a promise is a promise!
Stop looking at emails. Any answer will come when you least expect it. Let go. As I heard on a superb podcast #SYWTBAW, your story, once completed and sent out to the world, is no longer yours but belongs to the future readers.
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