Hello and Happy Wednesday! I’m giving weekly writing updates to keep myself motivated. Writing consistently can be a challenge when there are so many distractions. This is my way of keeping myself on track so please humour me here.
So this week I’m feeling incredibly grateful for my online critique group, who have given me some amazing feedback to help move my story forwards. I’d left this one aside for several months while working on other projects but I’m still very passionate about the story. It is a fiction picture book that features an autistic main character whose sensory challenges make it very difficult for him to enjoy something as simple as going to the beach with his family. It is a super challenging story to write because if you know much about autism, you know it presents itself quite differently in each individual.
Yes, it is getting dark and I’m still working.
Anyway, thanks to Tara Perkowski, Tasha Hilderman, Sue Macartney, Akilah Pikou and Emma Wood, I have a new direction and inspiration for this story. I’ve written a couple of new scenes to develop the story and main character further. Revising this story hasn’t been easy but I know it is getting closer to where I want it to be.
How do you keep yourself motivated to get things done?
“When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.” -Creighton Abrams
Books by Cynthia 
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