Diary Of Being A Writer; Week 66

Starting all over again, again.

I am going to try starting my memoir over again.
I know that I keep doing this, but they say ‘write the book you want to write’, and I feel I did.
Now I want to start again using what I have learnt over the past year and try to write it better. I wrote a collection of funny anecdotes with a story of domestic abuse randomly thrown in. I kind of took the easy way out.
This time I want to try and tell the story without hiding behind the brief sketches. I am not sure if I can, but I will have a stab at it and see what happens. This is me continuing my journey as a writer, exploring and learning.
I didn’t come here thinking I could just sit down, immediately write a best seller and get published and not have to work for anyone else ever again.
I sort of did think that I could at least just sit down and write a novel. I started doing that and then stopped. Then I started my memoir. Then I realised I had left out the darkest bits, so I went back and put them in. Then I ran away with a fantasy/crime novel for a bit during NaNoWriMo. Then back to the memoir. So, all in all, I have written a lot in the past year but nothing I would want to show a publisher, yet.
Writing is harder than I thought, and it is taking me longer than I thought.
I really want to get better at it. I want to write something that I love, something that you would…