I didn’t love Dan Brown’s writing, but hot damn I love those quotes.

And yes, I am kind of ashamed that I almost highlighted the whole thing.

Unashamedly though, the advice resonates.

I wrote a 2 book fantasy book about the 7 Deadly Sins invading a fat woman’s head about 20 years ago. Sounds ghastly doesn’t it? I realised my sins were a little flat and those villains weren’t developed enough.

It was my first try at adult writing, I’d previously written poetry for children and a few short stories. I have a more skills up my author sleeves now. I may just revamp that pedantic story of middle aged woman who is slave to the sinful voices in her head.

I’m also not ashamed to say that I am copying and pasting Dan’s words of advice into a word document. I can read it before I edit, like a useful story prompt.

I’m not going to get out of bed at an ungodly hour of the morning to start writing and I’ve never had a blank page I couldn’t fill with words. I don’t buy that he still has to write on Christmas Day, but I do buy into his advice.

If Dan the Man can, I can take a stab too.

There, no shame in that.

Oh, goodness me.

Overconfident now, I just imagined one of my old pre-medium novels playing out as a movie. What have I done? Perhaps it’s contagious.