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Preparing To Write Your Novel With A Journal

[The video version is here. ] My writing journal is just a standard notebook. I cannot find any of those fancy numbered journals in Sibu, so I had to make do with this one. Make sure you like the notebook you pick. This may seem silly, but if you do not like the feel of the paper, or the colour of the lines, it will annoy you because you have to use it so much. At the very least, make sure that you feel neutral about it. This post will only be discussing how I use this journal to prepare for my writing. I will not be talking about the word count tracker or writing logs or even how to track your submissions, because I am only interested in showing you what kind of basic information I need before I start writing, and why. I really recommend using this system because it has helped me stay focused as well as helped me pick up where I left off. For this post, I will be using examples from a new adventure that I had planned for Ratai. I had to stop writing it in December last year because I ...