Time for some feels! I'm feeling alright. Lately I've been
trying to write more, which feels good and is good, I
believe. There are a few novels I want to write, and I hope
a few more after those are out, and onward and upward until
I've written so many that I can't help but make a few
dollars out of the ordeal just for the sheer volume of
work. Of course, I have to figure out how to finish one
first...

Last night my 10yo was reading along while listening to
an audio version of a book. I couldn't help but overhear
it, though I was attempting to work on something else. I
thought something that I've thought quite a few times: there
are so many great novels, and great authors, that I couldn't
possibly have anything to add to the world through writing.
To snap myself out of that thinking, I went and read some
Sherlock Holmes, which is closer to the writing style I'm
aiming at currently. It helped.

Today I thought more about that experience. It wasn't unlike
the experience I have every time I sit and read at the
library, with walls of novels all around me. I have to
remind myself that I am not attempting to write novels to
gain the ephemeral praise of the world, but because I truly
enjoy writing.

Are there any writers-of-novels reading this? If so, why do
you do it? Is it joyful for you?

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