I planned everything carefully. I was going to make a quick stop and redraft my 5,000 word short story in time for a competition before continuing straight ahead with the rest of my novel. Instead I was stuck in a traffic jam in procrastination lane. Hmmm...
It's not that I don't have any ideas, or that I'm stuck on what to do next, it's picking up the pen and actually writing that is problem. It's like my hand just can't be bothered. I couldn't write anything. When I hear other writers talking about writing 2,000 words a day I think to myself, really?
Now I said 'was stuck' because luckily I've moved on a little. After reading some brilliant advice from the Mslexia writer's diary I decided to take a U-turn and go down the non-fiction street by writing some reviews and this has actually helped me start writing again. I've got two books, two radio plays and an audiobook to review and so far it's been fun. It may not be what I was hoping to write but at least it counts as writing...
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