Firstly, let me tell you that I have done some writing this week – again not as much as I might have hoped but as I’m still doing extra hours at work and have very little writing time, I am just happy to get something done.
I said before I wouldn’t get the writing timesheet back out but I think I might after my retreat, which I am now thinking will be a kick-start more than anything else!
I have been getting some reading done, ably helped by long tranches of time sitting in the passenger seat of my husband’s car, but I have found concentrating on the book a struggle (I will tell you why on Tuesday, of course!). I finished my trapeze course and got to my dance class and travelled to a family party a few counties away, but I feel like the week has been all about picking up bits and pieces and not really getting anything ticked off the list. It’s been a little like that at work too, with my extra hours being sucked into new tasks rather than completion of current ones.
Overall, it has been hard to focus over the last seven days. It hasn’t helped that the weather here has veered all over the place; one day abnormally hot, the next day a dry thunderstorm, the next day abnormally hot again, then a torrential downpour. Even the weather can’t get into a groove!
I’m feeling a bit of a writing failure, to be honest. Someone I know even said I don’t write anymore, that I’ve moved on from it. So I have to get it back into everyone’s mind that I am a writer, and I have to own what is, in effect, a period of writer’s block. I have to get back into a habit and even if I don’t write the whodunnit I need to write something. Every day, in some way, I have to be a writer.
That way, if someone says anything similar again I will know they are wrong, and not just hope it.
In other news – Book 93 on the 100 Novels list is Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis. I have only read on Martin Amis book, London Fields, and I really didn’t like it very much. I’m not sure if it was style, substance or subject but if I think about it, I can feel my face screw up which is a sure sign I don’t want to revisit it! That makes me very unlikely to read any other Martin Amis, especially one which sounds very ‘macho’ in terms of money and power. It’s not a style that floats my boat, as they say.
And finally – I found an article focussed on writing poetry about ruins. As I love poetry, and ruins, and have written poetry about ruins, and one of my favourite poems is The Ruin (as mentioned in the article as well as on here in earlier posts!) I decided to share it as a reminder that however much changes in the world, some things are strong enough to keep on standing.
Happy writing,
EJ
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