My Orange Parker Pen
An hour ago I sat down to write a short blog post. It started by saying that I made good progress yesterday and had high hopes of solving many of my writing problems by he end of today.
Then it became introspective, which is not good. I was unable o break out of the cycle of introspection and successive rewrites put me in mind of something circling round a plughole.
And that is why it has taken me the best part of an hour and around a thousand words to come up with the ninety words I have here. Dull, I admit. Unproductive too. But at least, by cutting them severely I have avoided introspection, self-indulgence and whiney.
That’s all OK as far as it goes, but it leaves me with half a blog to write and needing something interesting to say. That’s only 125 words so that’s not a problem. I can fill that with a few sentences about the ease with which I can fill the space – look, the word count is already up to 176 and I’ve managed to keep you reading without actually saying anything.
Today I intend writing a second post in the evening to detail what I have actually done. Yesterday was quite productive but didn’t come up with many results. By the end of today I want to have made at least three submissions, maybe more.
I have a list of finished items, and a list of almost finished items. I have a list of submissions I want to make. All I need to do is match them up, but at hat point I sar to worry about whether I* am sending the right things to the right people. I got hat wrong lat month and ended up with a rejection that should not have happened.
Writing poetry is only part of the art of getting published.
I thought I’d go for pen photos again, as the subject is writing. I’m surprised how few I seem to have.
As part of my ongoing commitment to procrastination I have already added another post when I should have been finishing off submissions.
Top quality procrastination again. You are an artist.
🙂 Thank you. All my practice is paying off.
How I love those pens!
I swear I am writing better because of the new one! 🙂
Keep working at it! You are a good writer!
It keeps me sane and out of trouble, so it has many benefits. 🙂
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I have found that people LOVE to read twaddle, especially amusing twaddle. Keep up the good work. 😉
I will try. 🙂
It’s often the writing is the easy part….
🙂 Indeed it is. I sometimes feel like a lion tamer rather than a wrier as I beat back all the stuff I don’t need.
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Did you write Waiting for Godot?
If I had have done there would be a lot less waiting and a lot more forensics. 🙂
🙂