happy new year
When you can’t think of a word or phrase that doesn’t make you smirk cynically
When you know you desperately need to write 500, ok 300 words a day, training yourself to write on demand
Because most famous authors have one thing in common – they’re prolific.
(and don’t take my word for this – if you know of an R K Narayanan or V S Naipaul or a Goscinny or an Uderzo whose genius came out in little drips – tell me now!)
When you stave off the inevitable for weeks
Promising NOT to write about your sorry plight
In a hundred and forty words of blank verse -
Looking for other things – it’s Snowing! My wedding! My work sucks! Oh London! there’s Rocketsingh! The tories, Immigration!
And they all merge palely with the weak street lamp light
When you can’t light a bulb, that’s writer’s block.
When you know you desperately need to write 500, ok 300 words a day, training yourself to write on demand
Because most famous authors have one thing in common – they’re prolific.
(and don’t take my word for this – if you know of an R K Narayanan or V S Naipaul or a Goscinny or an Uderzo whose genius came out in little drips – tell me now!)
When you stave off the inevitable for weeks
Promising NOT to write about your sorry plight
In a hundred and forty words of blank verse -
Looking for other things – it’s Snowing! My wedding! My work sucks! Oh London! there’s Rocketsingh! The tories, Immigration!
And they all merge palely with the weak street lamp light
When you can’t light a bulb, that’s writer’s block.
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