Just so we're all clear...

Yesterday I wrote zero words. Today I wrote 1,224 and am now over the 10,000 mark. This is good but it's no gold star.

I have been faltering under the pressure to write a great book. Just so we're all clear, the book I'm writing is not great. It's not even mediocre. It's most likely shit. But it's my book and I'm writing it. And for that reason alone, I will continue. Just to show that I can see something through to the end. Even something that I know isn't brilliant. Something that isn't going to show me up in an amazing light. But something that I can say that I accomplished all the same.

The cards for Day Six and Day Seven were about 'going wild' and 'skeletons in the closet.' But the card that helped me through these past two days is still Day Three:

Abandon the stultifying notion of brilliance and aim instead for the low mark of completion.