Will I run out?

Of ideas. Of inspiration. The sheer will to put in the seemingly tiny amount of work to put words on the page.

These are the things that worry me. Perhaps they worry you too. 

I am astonished when I hear that authors wrote multiple books that never got published. The mind boggles to think that they must have written 40,000-80,000 words, then created multiple drafts based on feedback for each book. That doesn’t even take into account the time they spent identifying literary agents and writing proposals.

How do they come up with so many plots and think of so many characters? Even if the novel is not quite up to the mark, I would find it extremely difficult to create so many storylines. Which, of course, worries me whether I am being a fool even to attempt such a goal. 

I had the same fears when I started this blog. How many writers have attempted to do this and failed? I know of at least one. Me. I have failed countless times to start a blog. Why should this time be different? 

The honest answer is, ‘I don’t know.’ But I can tell you I have a different approach this time around. I think this approach will work. At least I want it to work. And my fears regarding ideas? Well, the more I write, build a bank of posts, the more I think about writing, the more I get new ideas. 

All this is a roundabout way of saying that your mind is an ideas machine. So lead your life, read books, listen to music, watch films. And then show up with a pen in your hand (or the keyboard under your fingertips) and watch it churn out some utter shit, but also a few gems.