Diary of Being A Writer; Week 42

Are you serious? You aren’t finished? What have you been doing?

My dream bookshelf is nearly done, only a few more shelves to go.

Monday 17th December
Week 42, really? That is nearly a year, and I still haven’t finished my memoir. Remember when I thought it would be done by now. Pretty funny.
Okay, start with morning pages (three pages of freewriting by hand)and then off to work.
I guess one thing I like about the morning pages is that they are pressure free in one sense. It means I am writing, but I am not worried in any way about the content, the word count, the quality. They are just writing.
So best I go and do them.
Tomorrow is work and distraction free. There are no excuses tomorrow for not writing something on the computer, with a word count, with accountability.
Why is this terrifying me?

Tuesday 18th
I need to stop avoiding the memoir. If it makes me sad, take a break. If it is embarrassing and confronting, keep going. Write about going back again, the confusion. The trying to ignore the weird accusations. Trying to ignore but getting dragged in by the drama and the passion and the promises. The manipulation and the lies.
Okay so I did it, I got stuck back into the memoir. I have written quite a bit, but I have edited more…