Diary of Being a Writer; Week 184

Procrastination can come from fear.

I have just started the two weeks of leave that I took purely to write. I figured if I could have two weeks just to write I can get some momentum going again and be able to keep that momentum going once I go back to work.

I started this new job just as I finished the last novel and then because of “reasons” my ability to write just fucked off for a few months but after some therapy and some meditation I am feeling a lot better and I seem to have got the hang of my counselling gig too.

So now I have two weeks to do another edit of my first novel and get a good start on my second and continue to query agents. Hopefully, there are still a couple left that I haven’t queried yet.

Okay and off we go, just get all that done. In two weeks. No pressure.

I just need to tidy my study first. Oh wow, it was messier than I thought and now I can see the carpet I will need to vacuum it. And my bookshelf is a bit dusty and now that I look at it those books really need rearranging. Maybe I should colour block them. I mean that look hasn’t had its moment yet.

No, that would look silly I am just going to have to reread them all and arrange them in order of how much I enjoyed reading them again.

Then I will open Scrivener and get writing. Any minute now.