Writing a Novel 1

It takes incredible faith. Or incredulous faith. To write, to finish a novel. I am at slightly more than 64,000 words in the Kaleidoscope Novel. It needs to be 85,000 or 90,000. I write scenes not knowing if they fit, if they belong in the book or not. In fact, when I start to write a new scene it seems ridiculous. Why am I writing this scene? What is the point? But it doesn't matter. It can't matter. As soon as it matters, you're tied to a sword and blindfolded, standing on a barren field with other swords stuck in the ground surrounding you. The reason I say it take "incredulous faith" is because you don't believe in what you're doing and yet you do it anyway. I mean, you don't believe in it intellectually. Intellectually, you know it's not right. It's not good enough. It can never be good enough. But to write a novel you have to amputate that tongue.