days in a row

The key thing missing from my writing recently is writing. A consistent output of writing. I can't remember a period of time greater than two days in a row where I spent time on my novel.

The advice given from anyone and everyone, including myself, is to write everyday, no matter how little you plan to do each day. It's good practice, it keeps you immersed in the story, and it ensures that your novel is always moving forward to its completion.

It's taken me six years to get where I am - but if you added up the number of days that I've sat at the computer or with a notepad to work on the novel, I would doubt it would be more than a year's worth of work. That says something - and I'm not getting any younger.

Fifteen minutes a day sounds realistic.  So my goal is at least fifteen minutes a day for the next 100 days starting from yesterday, the day after the harrogate festival.

From one day to the next ... to completion.

Post Harrogate Inspiration

Despite having little sleep and a lot of social drinking since Wednesday, the Harrogate Festival has once again fired up the creative juices and inspired me. So, I'm up. And writing.

that feeling . . .

I'm getting that feeling again, that excitement that comes once a year, that urge to write, the belief that I could write 100 novels - and it's all because of this:

must see viewing

Quality crime drama - amazing performances - go see it!!

deadline

For all those NaNoWriMo writers that find themselves a little bit behind the eight ball at the beginning of this week, I sympathise. I have a deadline - 23 November to be exact - and what I have to attempt to achieve between now and then looks like Lilian Parade used to look like every day after school back in the nineties - one bloody steep hill. Actually, it still is a bloody steep hill.

But it has to be done and it will be done. Having a short term deadline is quite liberating in a way, makes you focus on the task at hand. There's no room for - "I'll do it tomorrow." Nope. It has to be done today, has to be done tonight.

I won't be doing much else other than work and writing for the next week and a bit, all in an attempt to get something worth reading to my in-house editor.

Shame I'll miss all this lovely weather.