Writing
I’ve been spending a lot of my time the last three months the same way I spend my time when I am normally home – at my desk, writing. Or, to be more precise, not writing, but looking at the keyboard and the screen and thinking about vacuuming the house or getting something to eat or what emails I haven’t answered and bills I have yet to pay. And then there follows a burst of writing, and after a while I have lot of words to edit and finally my article is done or there’s another page to the book I’m working on. Writing is weird. You start with a blank page, though of course these days it’s a blank screen. At some point you have to fill it. If you don’t then you never get to write anything and when you are a writer you need to publish so you can get paid. In that sense it’s like every other job. What I tell people who ask about it is that to be successful as a writer you have to make it a job. If you wait until you “feel” like writing you will never write anything. It’s something...Read more
