Writing Diary #1: A Project Title and a New Beginning

Let's get into the nitty gritty of this WIP.

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This is a behind-the-scenes peek into my real-time writing process for paid subscribers. These entries will be honest snippets capturing the ups, the downs, and everything in between. It’s less polished, more personal — like a creative journal I’m letting you read over my shoulder.

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But today, here is an extended sneak peak of what to expect:

I keep wondering when I’ll return to that place I was in at the very beginning of my writing journey when I was first dreaming up this kind of story.

This kind of book.

Maybe I’ll get there again. 100% excited for the moment I sit down to write that I can’t even wait that long, writing in the margins of other work and notebooks pieces of the entire book puzzle that usually never make it off that page, yet I never cared. I was writing. I was hearing the characters. I had a story to tell.

Maybe it’ll happen when I start to feel a little more confident. When there's an actual, tangible book taking shape in front of me.

Summer always feels like a fresh start, which I think helps. It’s full of possibility. It feels like I should be doing everything: chasing the sun, sweating through 90° days, and also making sure my characters are out there too. They need to be living big, messy, adventurous (not necessarily happy) lives.

Right now, I’m a little over 10,000 words into my current work-in-progress.

Yes, the one I’ve been hinting at.

The one I really want to talk about.

And somehow, that number makes it feel real. 10,000 words isn’t a lot… but it also is. It’s somewhere between 20 and 40 pages.

(I just calculated that. Honestly thought it would be more.)

Anyway —

It’s going to be a book. A story. Whether or not it grows into something beyond that you’ll see on the shelves is still uncertain, and frankly, that terrifies me more than it should. I keep asking myself the question.

Is it worth it? Is it worth the time and energy to write the book I’ve been dreaming about — in various forms — for nearly a decade?

I guess the real question is actually, if not now, when?