February 27th, 2012 at 7:50PM
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ruletheworldwithsong asked: I'm trying to write a novel and I'm having a hard time. I'm also an artist and everytime I try to write, I end up drawing the characters instead. I have about 61 pages in Microsoft Word of my novel done, but I need to finish it and not fall victim to drawing. Any advice on what to do to keep writing?

Yes. Keep writing. 

You don’t “fall victim to drawing”. Pens don’t leap out at you and force you to use them to draw with or terrible pen-inflicted things will happen to your loved ones. What you are doing is, you stop writing and you start drawing.

So what you should do is, don’t do that.  Instead, keep writing. (I sometimes draw on manuscripts while I’m working, pictures of characters or places to keep them in my head. But I don’t stop writing…)

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  2. littlealiengirl said: Are you saying that those threats of a bloody death that are being made by my tablet are in my head?
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