Writing Your Book| Embrace the challenges

Writing Your Book| Embrace the challenges

Imagine you have a brilliant story, an amazing plot, and all the inspiration to write it in your book, would that be enough or is that all you need to write your book?

As much as your motivation and story are required to write a book, the work discipline, and managing your time to write it are equally important factors when it comes to writing your book.

Writing on the subjects you are very well aware of and have a grip over, is the ideal way to go as a beginner. When you are writing a book while aligning the storylines and creating characters that will further support the idea that you have in mind for your story, that keeps you within the domain of what you already know and have done research over, definitely makes you a good writer, but challenging your own boundaries and going beyond your limits while writing a book is one thing that will help you achieve extraordinarily and a quality that will attribute you to being a great writer.

It does not matter if you are writing on a familiar subject or something new, it will require an equal level of engagement and commitment. The first challenge to overcome is finding a way to put your thoughts on an intimidating white paper in front of you.

In many world-famous writers’ opinions, it is a challenge they feel too. There are parts in writing a book that is exciting, but also the parts that are comparatively dull or need more effort to be written in a way that is more engaging. Filling in those pages in order to keep your story interesting and going is a challenge you need to be already aware of. So, instead of scaring away, and thinking of quitting, embrace this challenge.

Take your time, refresh your mind, reschedule your writing routine if you have to, and come back with new thoughts.

There are some challenges that are already there, but also some of them that you create in your head. Let’s talk about them first and other challenges later and how to embrace and conquer those challenges.

Stop Looking for Perfection:

One of the biggest barriers that you create in your mind is looking for the perfect execution of your thoughts and ideas once you start typing or writing. Always keep that in mind that, the book you are writing is your story, your imagination, and your experience. It does not have to be perfect already.

The only place it should be coming from is the place of authenticity, clarity, and your own unique voice to tell it.

Following Other Writer’s Mantra:

Some writers have to schedule and decide the parts of their story in a beginning, middle to end frame timeline. Some decide to start from the end, like J. K Rolling did with the Harry Potter, and some from the middle.

When it comes to writing, there are no rules and routines, except the ones that work for you. Writing a book is always a journey that gives immense growth to its writer as well. The one thing that will help you through it all and have the clarity to decide what works for you is the knowledge and connecting with yourself well.

Being Afraid to Speak Your Language:

The one mistake you would make if you want to appeal to every reader, the want that your story must relate to every person reading it. This need will compromise not just your creativity but identity and uniqueness.

When writing your own book, you need to have this faith in your story that it will find its readers by itself. You do not need to alter it into a more accepting version of itself. It will lose the touch of the language and tone of your story.

It’s Okay to Slowdown, But Keep Showing Up!

As Isabelle Allende quotes and I say: “Show up, show up, show up, and after a while, the muse shows up too.”

Nobody is denying the dry spell one goes through while writing a book when you feel that the box that kept all your creative ideas and thoughts has emptied, no idea strikes in your head like a lightning bolt, and writing just seems like a mundane task instead of being the most fun space you had created to connect with your ideas.

Do not be afraid of it. We repeat, do not be afraid of it. Keep connecting and keep engaging with your writing. Keep writing aimlessly, if you have to, but do not stop.

Follow Isabelle’s simplest advice, and keep showing up!