To be completely honest, saying I wrote every day is an exaggeration. I wrote every day I intended to write, except for my two very sick days. But it was close enough to count as every day in my head, and enough to forge a habit.

I would never be able to write every day if I let my internal editor have any say. That’s just too much pressure and creative stress! I haven’t found a way to make my internal editor shut up when it comes to drawing, so trying to do that actually hurts my ability to draw. However, if I don’t even try to draw, I never know if I can that day.

Thanks for the review. I really wasn’t expecting any feedback, it’s great to get some, especially something so positive.

Oh, thank you for writing this. One is never enough. The flashpoint of knowing “I can do this again” didn’t really come to me till my fifth novel — everything before then was something like a gamble. Maybe I’d finish, maybe it’d dry up in the middle and I’d never get it back no matter how much I loved it.

You’ve had two milestones this year — that you can do it and that you can do it again. This is magnificent. Your description both of your struggle and your triumph is magnificent.

I was too sleepy to get started tonight on reading it but I’m really looking forward to, as soon as my eyes quit swimming. Congratulations on the successful surgery and everything too, it sounds like you are a lot stronger and better off than you were.

Yes. Today you’re a real writer — and this is something that can become a real job within reach even of the bed days.

It’s not scheduled by the clock, it’s scheduled by the calendar. That makes all the difference. I honestly also think it reduces stress rather than creating stress, which can do a lot for any of the chronic fatigue conditions.

This is so awesome. I’m also impressed that you manage to write every day. The only way I’ve ever managed that is to count personal journal as writing — which I suppose it is. It’s just never going to be posted or publishable writing.

Each of us has our own limits but this is one thing where our limits are no greater than anyone else’s really. Being able to shut down the inner editor and reschedule editing for later is this immense freedom in itself, it is the most efficient way to work in my opinion.

Of course now I’m left with trying to teach the inner editor to work at speed and with happiness, which may take me a while. But I’m starting to get it.

What’s your novel about? Genre, main character, general idea? What would you put on the back cover blurb?