It’s the doing, not the having

In spite of annoying health issues, I did complete the re-write of the first five chapters in my novel Gift of the Ancients. Next week’s goal: write and edit the last two chapters of ‘book one’, also known as, ‘the beginning of the story’. I don’t know if I’ll keep the ‘book one’, ‘book two’ divisions in it, like Brian Jacques does, but it’s helpful to keep myself organised, and encouraging to say “I’m nearly done Book One!”.

In The Story of Me, I have now chronicled the first five years of my life and begun the next five. I’m not pushing myself on it too hard. Some days a lot of things I hadn’t thought of come out of my pen, other days only a little makes it onto the page. I’m handwriting this project, and frankly, I intend to burn it once it’s all down. It’s the doing, not the having, but I’m already seeing some benefit to it.