I must admit I’ve taken my eye and my mind off my writing – I confess I’m wasting time, letting seconds – no minutes – actually hours, whittle away doing goodness knows what. I wash up instead of writing, hoover, iron, tidy the kitchen – all good things to do except when I should be writing.
I gave myself a challenge of writing from twenty randomly generated words and I’m only on #15, square, which compared to some of the other words should be easy. I struggled with these – last, spiffy, heat, needless, way, but after much pondering completed them – a couple I’m actually quite pleased with. So having achieved this much, why can’t I get to grips with – no, why can’t I even start ‘square’? After that I have these remaining words ‘books, secretary, lake, absurd and one’. So what is the problem? It’s my old enemy which has undone and betrayed me so many times, procrastination. This old enemy means novels I have finished haven’t been edited and published, novels which I’m halfway through are languishing, collections of other writings are uncollated and uncollected.
Procrastination!!! It is so annoying!!! To paraphrase lines from the Pied Piper of Hamlin by Robert Browning, ‘Rise up brain, give yourself a shaking, and get on with all you should be undertaking, or sure as fate you’ll soon be failing.’ For goodness sake, just get on with it!!
Lois Elsden 