Diary of Being a Writer; Week 39
I may not have won at NaNoWriMo but I gave it a go and that has to count for something.
Monday 26th November
I have paid work to do.
Tuesday 27th
The theme this week seems to be, ‘not writing’.
I am disappointed about not writing but glad of the money.
And besides, maybe I needed a break to clear my head.
Okay, I may have been naughty and started yet another writing project. A collaboration this time.
I only wrote 258 words, but they were fun.
I feel that finishing something needs to be my next goal.
I like ideas.
I like trying new things out.
I need to get past the tough bits and get to the end.
Wednesday 28th
I may not be writing today, but I am bookshop and other writers adjacent, so it isn’t all bad.
Thursday 29th
Yes, I have work to do today, but I do also have time to write.
But I also have had no sleep, hayfever, and a mixed bag of whinge. Basically, it is an ‘I don’t wanna’ day. So I need to get out a blank page and just write. Because it isn’t really that I don’t want to write it is just that I feel unworthy, incapable and my mind seems to have gone blank. All my projects seem impossible. So I just need to let go of all that and write.
Coffee and just tapping away are the answer.
200 words may not be much, but it is something. And they were good words. I think.
Then reading. Some about the craft of writing and some actual writing by others. Both instructive.
I like that lying on a couch and doing one of my favourite things, reading, is an essential part of the process of becoming a better writer.
It is too, look it up!
Friday 30th
Feeling like a real writer today who wants to actually write.
I definitely won’t “win” at NaNoWriMo but maybe, just maybe I can get the next badge of 40,000 completed.
A little bit of work to do this morning and then there is no reason I shouldn’t be able to write for the rest of the day.
You know apart from all the things that stop me from writing that are all on me. Like getting distracted by ‘research’ or starting something new instead of slogging on with that old idea that is so yesterday.
Being hungry and instead of grabbing some cheese and crackers; creating a gourmet salad by foraging in the garden and baking bread and then making croutons from that bread for the salad. Then Instagramming that salad by trekking it over to the park to get the perfect shot.
Or just losing the ability to write, my tears falling onto my fingers as they clumsily mash the keyboard while my cats look on with disdain.
Or I will just knock out the 5,041 I need for the NaNo badge like a champion.
One or the other.
Update; I just caught myself trying to sneak out the door to buy art supplies to make a Christmas Tree. I had finished my paid work but had not written a word. I told myself off and I am now back in front of the computer.
See you all next week for more Adventures in Sitting at a Desk and Making Stuff Up or just Remembering Stuff and Making the Words Go.
