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What stops you from writing?
Today- my printer went kerput and caused me to have a serious tantrum after spending over 30 mins trying to print my PF ms so I could send it off when I could have spent the time doing writing!! Stupid printer with more jamming than Bob Marley!
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Not sure what stops me from writing - family distractions, the sight of my last royalty statement, low moods...a lot of things really!
Got very excited by the appearance of my new timetable today! Medieval and Renaissance literature at 10am on Monday? This should be interesting . . .
(School uniform buying tomorrow...:()
I can't be beat
You can go and ask the nation
They'll all say 'Yes
That C-o-S
Is the king of procrastination.'
;-)
Far too many things. Forums (I haunt other boards besides this one, mainly football),You Tube (I go in to watch one specific music video - then I spot the 'related links' list and I'm there an hour), sunshine (winter'll be here soon enough so shame to waste it - long walks), and sometimes just saying "Oh,sod it, I'm off to the pub."
Yet when I get down to it I can be very productive.
I've ended up with a stress headache following the printer episode which will teach me for getting so worked up. Just going to have to get a make-do printer to keep me going.
It's a killer lol.
Family (but I love them and want to be with them).
People seeming determined to ask you questions or tell you what THEY are doing, which you are supposed to be fascinated by, when they've not bothered to speak to you for the three hours before you picked up your pen/moleskine/laptop. (But... nothing).
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the emotion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
My problem is what stops me working these days, I am so easily distracted when there are books to edit, catalogues to produce, accounts to do and here I am on TB ... writing comes easy as it is channelled. Work doesn't and right now it is work I am paid for, not writing ... not yet anyway.
Phew well at least I got that off my chest!
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Sorry to hear you haven't been well.
What has stopped me recently is having to take the children out for days out. Tsk, summer holidays, whoever invented them obviously wasn't a writer! :)