Of Ticking Time November 13, 2007
Posted by Jen in : Journal, Novel , 18 commentsWell, having been signed up for a further five weeks in the no-longer-hellish hospital, I’m limping along with the novel. I am sooo determined to get the thing finished by the end of the year – if I don’t, I can see it slipping by the wayside and that’s not what I want at all.
I actually got up at 5.30 this morning to scrawl out some words. To be honest, it was the lure of the dog and his bladder-bursting running-up-and-down-the-stairs antics that dragged me out of bed, rather than any writerly compulsion but still. 600 words before brek’s not bad. I sort of like delirious dawn typing, huddled up in blankets while Venus blinks in at me.
Being a mathematical genius, I have calculated that, in order to get the last 30,000 or so words written by the end of the year, I will have to get up early quite a lot. Bugger.
I will though. I really will. Sometimes, just sometimes, you have to go that extra mile if you want something badly enough.
Watch this space. Yawn…
