Having had an intermission last week, and being pretty useless for a few weeks now, I thought I’d try getting back into the swing of things.
It hasn’t entirely gone to plan, but at least I’m heading in the right direction. I’ve been doing research, having discussions about storylines, reading up on different styles of poetry and so on. I’ve also been involved in a fundraiser which has taken up a reasonable amount of time so I should have realised that this wasn’t the week to catch up.
It’s bugging me a little that I feel so disengaged from work, but I know from previous experience that I just need to get back into a routine. So tomorrow the timesheet comes back into play – I’ll start with 15 hours this week as a target, and go from there.
I feel more confident when I can tie my work down a little and I really need to get to grips with book 2 as I wait for further info on book 1 (looking for an agent required oodles of patience and it’s good to be diverted) and start working towards my target date for completion of this draft.
So there’s not really a lot of news, as such, but just putting this stuff in writing makes me feel more confident I’ll get things done!
In other news – I missed books 6, 7 and 8 on the 100 best books list but I looked them up – and finally got to some I’ve read! Woo hoo!
I have read (or at least started reading) Emma and completed Frankenstein. I will give Emma another go, I have it in my study and will aim to read it by the end of the month; I find Jane Austen very easy to read nowadays so that’s a reasonable target. Suddenly I’ve gone from 0% of the list to 25% and I feel much more literary!
Also – I liked this interview with Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman, specifically what she says about getting on and working, and ways to deal with writer’s block. Mainly because I’ve said the same things before and it validates my opinions! I also appreciated reading about the number of rejections she had – I know I have to keep the faith but that’s quite hard some days.
And finally – I’ve talked before about public reading events. Well how about reality-TV writing? Is this the future of literature?
I really, really hope not!
Happy writing
EJ
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