Climbing Mountains, One Pixel At A Time
Filed under Advice • 27-06-2010 •
A few days ago, I made the following comment on Twitter:
Just as you climb a mountain one step at a time, you have to keep putting one word after another if you want to write a book.
Now author Colin Harvey has used it as the jumping off point to discuss his method for staying focussed while working on a novel.
A novel is like a picture made up of 100,000 pixels, with each representing a pixel. Miss out a thousand words, and you have a picture with a hole in its whole … When you feel that awful sense that you’re going to fall and/or fail, stare hard at the detail and fill those pixels in.
Read Colin’s full article here.
Tags: Colin Harvey • Gareth L Powell • Writing
