Need to Write?

Let's say you think you truly, "NEED TO WRITE." How does it feel? I'm not being rhetorical. How does it FEEL to you to NEED TO WRITE and not be writing? Describe your hunger on your... whatever device you are using to “write.” Get it out and capture that feeling specifically. Go back to it the next day and check with your feeling of yesterday's NEED and improve the description you tried. Where in you does your NEED to write manifest itself? In your digestion? Add that ache to your description, too. How do you know you need to write?...as opposed to shopping? Provide yourself with a clear answer to that question. Add the answer to the description you started on day 1. Is your description of how it feels to NEED to write morphing into a confusing mess? Look at the order of your sentences. Read them out loud. Put them in an order that makes more sense. This is how I do it. At some point, I dare read it to other people and hope they like it...to some extent. I then go back over it and redact the parts they said were "trite."

NOW, how does it FEEL to be writing? Describe it. Build your novel on that. Not a lot different from siphoning gasoline from a burning vehicle in the middle of the Rub’ al Khali desert🤪