Putting in the Legwork June 11, 2007
Posted by Jen in : Journal , trackbackExcellent. Really excellent. ‘I shall immerse myself in my novel this weekend. All weekend. I will connect with it, I will really do it,’ I told myself on Friday. Words written? Erm…
But. I did yoga for the first time in over a year. I had an idea that I would wake up all lithe-limbed and mellow. In actual fact, I woke up this morning to discover that every muscle in my body has contracted to approximately a centimetre in length and I’m crippling about like a crone.
I thought a lot about my novel. Mainly, I was thinking that I don’t want to write it at the moment. I want to write some magazine articles. Yes, magazine articles are exactly what I should be doing. The only drawback is that I don’t seem to have any ideas in my head. What do I have to write about? I’m the boringest person in the whole bloomin universe. Maybe I could become a West End star or something? A spaceman perhaps? Then I’d have something to write about.
My life would be different if I had long legs. I could stride about, looking ever-so-confident. Long legs, yes, that’s it! That’s all I need to become a successful writer.
Oh dear. I am crappily doomed and all because I have the wrong legs. Life is so unfair.
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Thanks for giving me such a smile. If it’s any consolation, I have incredibly long legs and I’m not successful either.
Ha ha. This could be me. I was going to write this morning. Immerse myself in it. Then I got distracted and depressed (you know why!). Then I decided I needed to buy another book from Amazon (non-fiction) for research. I’ve now decided I cannot write any more on book until research book has arrived.
So I thought I’d write an article too. But its too late now. I have to pick up son from nursery.
I have short legs too.
Rachel! You have got long legs and a publishing deal for ‘Ungodly Child’. That’s two things! Three, if you give each long leg a point. Three points makes you a success in my book!
Oh Helen: I feel your pain. It’s nearly 2pm now and I still haven’t written anything. I couldn’t find a blue pen. The black one didn’t look right at all. Then I found my fountain pen but didn’t like the blue-black ink so had to shop online to find the brown ink I’ve been lusting after for about 2 years. Not that I can actually afford to buy any at the moment. But the right pen is crucial. Even though I work on the pc. Sigh. Short legs have a lot to answer for
Hi Jen, In order to distance myself from the fact that today I have written a total of 311 words and that took me from 9am to now I decided to start at the top of the novel racer list on Kate H’s site and go visiting!!! You have cheered me up (not because you don’t think you have long legs or are contracted in post yoga agony!!!) but because it feels great to not be the only writer not writing! I’m not sure what I have just done with the day but thank God the working day is drawing to a close and I can go and do something really useful like…shall have to ponder that further!!! Hope the writing comes back in spurts for you and maybe your legs will grow a few inches when they uncoil ffrom their post yoga trauma!
Now I know what’s been wrong all my life! You’ve got my legs! We just need to swap legs and all our problems will be solved!
Hi NN - we can smile in unaccomplished complicity! Cor, that was quite a phrase!! I sometimes think it’s terrible to be ‘not writing’ but, when I think like that, I want to crawl under a rock and throw my thoughts away forever. Other times, I think it’s ok. I’d love to be as disciplined as other writers but I’m sure we’re not the only ones who don’t manage what we’d intended by the end of the day.
Zinnia - let’s go for it! The worst that can happen is that we end up legless
hahahahaha *hic*
This is obviously catching, is it because we spend too much time blogging?????? I can certainly do legless any day of the week. I keep telling myself that blogging is writing. Mmmmmmmm. Procrastination is my middle name. Funny name for a sheep though!!!
Ooh, Sheepish, blogging definitely counts as writing. Definitely, definitely, definitely! At least we’re good at legless and procrastination, eh?
Jen thank you I now know I should never attempt to write due to being longitudinally challenged in the leg department you have saved me so much time and effort. I had the same pen problems with OU maths you have to have a blue microline pen or one of those clicky outy pencils or the equations just don’t work.
I just noticed you have written 25,000 words bloody hell where did you find them all?
Oh, Karen, you brainy beast! I could never do OU Maths, no matter what sort of fancy schmancy pencils I had! Clicky outy pencils, oh, they just BREATHE science and mathmatical genius to me… sigh…
(The words were in the fridge. With the KitKats. Shhhhhhh. Don’t tell, will you?)
x
Crikey, Jen, you’ve gone completely Daisy from Spaced.
Why thank you Clive. I like the name Clive… it kinda rhyme with KitKats if you use your imagination…