Ah yes, Thursday morning and for all the writing that I said I would get done and yet I didn’t, I must apologise. Okay, to put the record slightly straighter I did write a six-page short about a garden shed and for the time being, it can sit in my documents folder until I know what to do with it. If anything and it may as yet, wind up getting hit by the delete button.
Hang on a sec, my tea’s going cold…
Right. Okay that’s better. The weather has turned, feeling autumnal and like somewhere, we skipped a season, but that’s just me. I don’t like the cold and it certainly feels chilly. Settling into author mode and trying my damnedest to actually come up with something, only allowing myself to get distracted by a freshly brewed mug of tea. Fear not, as ideas abound. That’s a lie. Of course they don’t, but I like the sound of it.
What I did, was to look through my archive and try and find a story I’d started about a boat that had been involved in the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940 and I couldn’t find the bloody thing. Sometime later, I sort of didn’t want to remember that I’d deleted it late last year. What made me go looking for it? it may have something to do with a talking dog and the new owner of the boat that’s been located on the beach in Norfolk and then the two of them go off and have a pub lunch or something. Anyway, the thing has gone and for a few minutes, I really thought I still had it. Never mind.
…In other news, well, not much to report. I’ve been messing about with Twitter and discovered another waste of time and space. Since finishing that short, I’ve been reading through the chapters I’ve done for Dark Places and I’m not too happy with them. So I’m now thinking about scrapping and starting again. Some sections work and some really shouldn’t be there and so I take a deep breath and take another cigarette too.
Smoking is very bad for you, apparently.
I have been toying with the idea of rejoining WriteWords, as I was a member there for two years and had a ball. The reason I say this is because I’m attempting to put together a synopsis and I know I need help with it. WriteWords is the only place I can think of that perhaps can put me in the right direction. I’ve never written a synopsis before, so I thought why not give it a go. No change as far as the editing goes, I can see it’s still there waiting and yes I know there are a few things to do and there’s this voice that keeps saying “Patience is a virtue.” Oh really? I also remember the joke about the two vultures and maybe there is something in what they’re saying.
Let’s move on, into a Thursday that’s a bit chilly and all I want is more tea. So take it easy out there and please mind the gap.