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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is how I wrote my first novel.  Nothing else worked, OP; those fretting about it were long and terrible, and you have my sympathy.  Accepting that I had a lot of pain and angst about what had happened/the person was the first step.  It wasn't going to go away, so I needed something to distract myself.  Looking back, this is the only way I would ever have been able to make it through my first novel: the pain came every night, and that's when I would sit down and write, which is also painful enough to that it numbed my anxiety about the situation, and then left me with a tired, proud, blank feeling that was the only way I could get to sleep.

I worked on my book every night for a year.  I started reading about writing for publication (Noah' Lukeman's The First Five Pages is the best, followed by Stephen King's A Memoir of the Craft).  I read a lot of poetry for the "sound" of the language. 
Now my two self-published books on Amazon make a tidy little amount for me each month (not a fortune, but enough to justify a few little splurges), and I'm working on the book I hope will be traditionally published.

Writing is so much more productive than meds or alcohol, and in the end you have something beautiful to show for your pain.  And you end up a different person (someone who created art, and who is pursuing and growing in a new interest), and THAT changes your perspective about whatever you were obsessed enough with to write.

I don't really care one way or another about that person I couldn't get over all those years ago.  [/quote]

Cool, that's awesome! Was the novel about / based on that experience, or something different entirely?[/quote]

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