Our greatest battles are those with our own minds
— Jameson Frank
Happy Saturn Day Fam
As always its the highlight of my week, to sit down and reason
with you. As you know it's getting closer to the Launch Date for Joshua N'Gon Last Prince of Alkebulahn and I'm getting
apprehensive.
Writers know something about fear.
The whole process of writing a novel from beginning to completion is fraught with insecurity. Well for me it is at least.
What are the thoughts going through your mind especially when you've embarked on a project that is unfamiliar to you? I found myself in that position when I decided to write my Young Adult novel. It's funny because I thought it would be so much easier to mentally prepare for it than my more adult
work. Man was I wrong.
Suddenly I'm having these crazy thoughts.
What if nobody reads it and Young Adults thinks its crap?
Will it find an audience?
Is it too slow?
Have I just wasted one year writing this thing?
There is only so much that I can control and the majority of it I cannot. And one of those things that I have ultimate control over was how I was thinking. So for me when I start becoming anxious a positive
mindset is required. And with difficulty I have to pull it out of the hat.
So I start telling myself the truth:
I created something from scratch and I completed it.
If I've done this once I can do it again.
So what, if it doesn't find its audience now, it will teach me things I couldn't have learned in any other way.
