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Tag Archives: avoiding writing
#39 Develop an addiction to candy crush saga
I have always, generally speaking, avoided video games. The reason for this is that once I start playing I usually can’t stop. During my wife’s recent stay in hospital, she passed quite a lot of the time playing candy crush … Continue reading
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#30 & #31 Get ill and try to download Pokemon Go
No matter how much you want to write there will inevitably be days when you just don’t feel up to it. Going on holiday seems to have had the unfortunate downside of giving me the opportunity of picking up a … Continue reading
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#24 Obsessively check emails, again!
OK, so over a month has passed since I sent my re-written first five chapters to the next agent and, even though it clearly states that they may take up to three months to respond I have already started obsessively … Continue reading
#22 Get the first rejection letter
Yippee, I’ve got my first rejection letter. No really, this is a landmark. It means that I’ve actually written a novel sent it to an agent, someone has read the first five chapters, synopsis and cover letter and taken the … Continue reading
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#14 get a cat
Was it Daphne du Maurier who said that cats helped her to write? She obviously didn’t have my cats who consider laptops, notes or anything else essential to writing as a threat which should be immediately sat on to death. … Continue reading
#11 Re-organise the bookshelf
As I mentioned before, having an asthmatic daughter who is allergic to dust means there are many opportunities to avoid writing with cleaning based activities. The last time she came to stay she became bored of playing shop and decided … Continue reading
#10 Go to the dentist
The events of chapter one of my first novel ‘Living with Saci’ in which a dentist is burnt alive are based on real events. My existing fear of dentists was heightened by the real events in Brazil a couple of … Continue reading
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#7 Cleaning
I’m currently in the middle of rewriting the first novel which I have tentatively named Living with Saci as it features the character from Brazilian Folklore who only has one leg, smokes a pipe, wears a red hat and causes … Continue reading
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