Learning From the Pros

Phew. My whole day today has pretty much revolved around fiction. I've written double of my target output, but what I've really been doing, is reading. 

I've been making my way through the threads on a message board pertaining to fiction writing, and seeing what works for other writers, and incorporating certain techniques into my own writing. I do certainly know better what works and what doesn't, and how to achieve results that work. 

I still have very little confidence though. I'm not looking forward to the next phase of this journey-- the rewriting and editing-- because that's when the pressure will be on to write glowing prose. But that's a long way away for now. So I'm trying to keep focused on my current goal-- getting 80,000 words out there onto the page. 

So far, so good.