The thing about writing

Wednesday 14th August

The thing about writing is that you keep putting it off; it isn’t that it is unpleasant, quite the contrary really once you get started.  It is the vast expanse of that white paper, or nowadays the empty Word document, that is so daunting.  And anyway what do you write about?  Is anyone at all interested in the musings of moi?  So, you drag open the laptop again, re-read your last entry, which usually feels pretty dire, then try to begin.  And somehow the words just write themselves, well you sincerely hope that they do.

The secret is not to hit the backspace button in despair and reverse delete what you have just written, no matter how trite it might sound.  Better to just keep going and review it later, plenty of time for deletions once the darn thing is written.  I do intend to do a bit of writing in France; hopefully this longer break will not be quite so hectic.  Once I get going on the rewrite of the new book I do really enjoy it, and get back into it quickly.  It is just finding the time to do it.

And then again, look at all the time one wastes just watching TV,  if I could just manage to find the off button on the remote think of what I could achieve.