{"id":375,"date":"2012-01-17T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/writing-is-a-sweaty-business\/"},"modified":"2020-08-25T14:36:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T04:36:01","slug":"writing-is-a-sweaty-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allisontait.com\/2012\/01\/writing-is-a-sweaty-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing is a sweaty business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m sweating. Metaphoric sweat, but sweat none-the-less. It’s beading on my forehead and running in little rivers down my sides. Wondering if I’ll be able to finish this book.<\/p>\n

I have some changes to make on the manuscript for my novel<\/a>. I have notes from my editor. Suggestions. Most of them are of the forehead-smacking ‘of course! you’re right!’ variety. Some are surprising. All of them require more. More from me. They require me to dig deeper, go harder, dive, dive, dive. I need to move things around, change things up. Wade back into that sea of words.<\/p>\n

So far I have done a lot of thinking. A lot of note writing. A lot of sweating. When the boys go back to school, I will do a lot of writing. And more sweating.<\/p>\n

I’m worried that I’m not up to the challenge. I go to bookshops and run my fingers along the shelves. All of those clever people with their witty turns of phrase and their convoluted plot lines. Can I do this? Really? Who do I think I am?<\/p>\n

I am lucky. I have a husband who knows me well. “Can I do this?” I ask. “You did it in the first place,” he says. “Of course you can.”<\/p>\n

I have friends who write books. I call them. “Can I do this?” They tell me that everyone feels this way (good news). With every book (not so good news – this novelist thing is not for the fainthearted).<\/p>\n

I will do it. I did not come this far to turn back now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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