Absent and the countdown

I've been absent. I can't think of a good enough excuse. Sure I was on holiday but they have internet in florida, I have been working but I was always working. I wish I could say that I was too busy finishing my novel to write this blog, alas, that too would be an excuse and, worse still, an outright lie.

I do however have news that may explain my absense. If it doesn't then it serves as news that this blog is changing....

I have found out that there is going to be a literary baby in October..... This blog is not about babies so I will not dwell on my baby news too much, suffice it to say however that I now have a deadline for the completion of my novel.

I have added a countdown clock to this blog. The clock is ticking down to my baby due date and now my novel completion date.

I'll update this blog every time I have written some more of my novel and I will continue to bring literary news from around London, the web and inside my head.

So no more procrastination, no more twiddling my thumbs and no more social life, well within reason. Instead I will simply be writing, writing, writing.....

The Queen of Procrastination

I indulge in procrastination on a daily basis. So married am I to the cause that I can spend all day NOT writing a single thing. Instead I stare blankly at clothes I can't afford or read news I have read many times before. I stare at meaningless images of celebrities and read banal stories that have no consequence for me or anyone else other than to our waste precious time.

Someone once declared me the Queen of Procrastination. How nice, I thought, to have been bestowed a title for my work, or lack thereof. I thought it was important to recognise that writers need time to think, to dwell, to wonder: my weak argument for the word count refusing to budge. It wasn't until my friends had written the fourth or fifth draft of their novels, while I was still dwindling on my first, that I began to see my title as a cause for concern.

I needed a way to climb out of the procrastination time warp. So what did I do? What would help me finish my novel? Well I created this blog.