The inner critic

Am in the middle of reading through my novel and there are some bits I love, other bits that suck.

When I wrote about the fact that you simply need to write, just WRITE, in order to get that damn novel down on paper, I also meant you need to IGNORE THE INNER CRITIC. Honestly. Just ignore it. Just write, write, write and don’t read back what you’ve written too soon after you’ve written it cos you’ll only tear it to pieces. We really are our own worst critics and I strongly believe that half of the novel-writing thing comes down to ignoring that inner critic in the early stages of writing.

It’s also important to have a writing buddy cos they can help drown out your inner critic’s nagging, horrid voice.

Anyway, there’s not as many holes as I first thought. I don’t wanna go too crazy with the back story as we all know you need to ’show’ not ‘tell’ and I hope a lot of the back story is told via Tori and Cam’s actions and dialogue.

I hate, hate, hate the first few pages which is such a nightmare cos the start is what an agent / publisher first sees. But am gonna ignore it for now and come back to it.

BTW, my blog entries are pretty short right? One of you readers noted this. But duh! That’s what they’re SUPPOSED to be according to all the web 2.0 / social media experts out there. I save the intense, long-distance writing for my novel and script m’kay? x