I've spent the last three days writing my first chapter. Finished around 1 AM this morning. I woke up and decided to reread it with a fresh eye. OMG, it's terrible. I've read some bad writing in the past but my first chapter was really bad. I scrapped it and am starting over. It's going to be a long haul.
I never realized that writing fiction could be so difficult. I write fairly intelligible and fluent non-fiction (yes, that was a pat on my own back). Fiction writing, however, is not even close to being the same discipline. I'll keep going however, putting one word after another until I have a novel...or just a long string of words.
Bill Browning, writing from Starbucks in the Ansley Mall, Atlanta. Sunday, 14 March 2010.
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