How many of us are out there?
Do you stock up on writing courses — especially the free ones? Buy fantastic-looking writing courses and then forget to do them? Or feel overwhelmed by how many you have stored on your laptop?
Do you join Fb pages for writers yet rarely READ the comments? Just flick about searching for the magic key?
Do you have a stationery fetish like I have? Do you buy lots of exercise books with artistic covers, pens, pencils, electric pencil sharpeners, note pads, blank paper of different colours, and then big boxes to keep it all in? When you need a cheer-up or some esoteric kind of encouragement, do you browse online for new stationery outlets and then order more of what you have? Because, in some magical way, you will be more motivated to write once you have that new fountain pen with perfumed ink from France?
The list might be endless so best to stop there.
So much writing advice exists for us to tap into today but there contradictions lurk. Write every day for an hour before you go to work is a good one but not if you already have to rise at 6am and have a long day before you. That advice sounds so simple. Just wake up at 5 am and write. Well, it suits some people but not me. I have tried it but all it does is make me worry that I won’t have energy for the…
