Writing and the nuts and bolts of it

Sorry it's been a bit since I've posted. Things have been crazy in my life on many different fronts. It seems that always as I am hitting my stride, becoming comfortable with my schedule that life decides to come and knock my feet out from underneath me.

I should be used to it by now.

Laughing.

How this concerns writing? I think I've finally learned that if you want to write you will. No matter what comes at you, you sit down and write, every day, so many pages a day until the project is finished.

You just do it.

Hark knocks, huge pitfalls, evil day jobs, no evil day jobs, husbands, kids, whatever, it doesn't matter. If you have the drive to write you will. It's that simple. But no one can put that drive miraculously into your body. It has to be there from the start.

That is what I have learned this week. That no matter what happens to me I can still write, and not half bad if I do say so myself. I finished Chapter One and Two of a rough for a second story in a series and completed chapter two of my young adult this week. Total word count around 20,000. Now this is not a normal week for me. Nope. I very hardly ever this productive.

Go figure, maybe depression is good for the writing soul?