Knowing what you do when you write is a boon to your composure. Knowing who you are after your first novels are under your pen or tucked away in the docs folder, can be comforting. Although not always because writers seem automatically wired with different kinds of angst. Whether we're insecure or overconfident, it helps to realize how exactly we progress. There's a learning curve to finding out who we are as writers.
Some trip and zoom through that first draft. Never take a reasonable break. Others edit as they go. Some take frequent breaks – some of those intentional and others of them not so much. In the beginning of the creative journey those breaks can scare a writer into a deep-freeze. Will I ever write again?! Does this mean I'm just playing at this writing gig?
Of course writing under the pressures of deadlines is a whole other mishmash. What if the necessity for a break beckons to you when you can't realistically take one? Do you just write trash-filler while your mind attempts to regroup?
Do you know yourself well enough to understand how you write, what you need to do it well, and what your "normal" is? What you become after writing a couple novels is generally different from who you are for that first one and possibly even the second one. Get a couple under your belt and then you'll learn who you are as a writer of stories.
Father, you create amazing writers of all kinds. Help all of us to follow your lead in creating. Help us to recognize the desire and the ability come directly from you. Apart from you, I can do nothing. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.
Into the Fire 
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