Today marks the first day where my day-job hours have been cut to concentrate on the writing.
As I write this at 8:20am, I’m sitting at the desk with a bowl to the side of me, littered with the dregs of crunchy-nut cornflakes floating lazily in a thin layer of milk, while to the other side a cooling cup of herbal tea sits, steam swirling into the air. Outside, a thin smattering of snow has dusted the world white…
…and all is calm. There’s not the hectic rush for the shower. There’s no clock-watching in case I miss the 8:10 bus into town. It's how a morning start should be: relaxed, contemplative and eager. The fact that I’ve actually got out of our warm bed into the chill of the morning air reasonably early, is an achievement in itself – a first step. How easy would it be not to get up for another hour? I know friends from work who have cut their hours and do exactly that.
But these two mornings off a week are for a definite purpose – writing more stories of freakishness and adventure.
But it’s not just the stories I’ll be bashing out during these mornings. In the future expect a few more blog entries on the Monday or the Tuesday. Perhaps even a Musket and Monsters Monday report (mmm… like the sound of that.) This year I expect free time will be squeezed as tightly as the last squirts from a tube of toothpaste, so the first two days of the week are the best times to catch me. If I do do a report on what I do, every Monday, it’ll probably be a round up the previous week’s news and other stuff. It’ll also be something more regular, something I hope to stick to even if on occasion it’s only a couple of sentences long.
Anyway, it’s time to bid you adieu, and cross over to the other laptop for some writing-japery.
I’ve a got a fistful of stories to write and only four hours to save the earth…
But these two mornings off a week are for a definite purpose – writing more stories of freakishness and adventure.
But it’s not just the stories I’ll be bashing out during these mornings. In the future expect a few more blog entries on the Monday or the Tuesday. Perhaps even a Musket and Monsters Monday report (mmm… like the sound of that.) This year I expect free time will be squeezed as tightly as the last squirts from a tube of toothpaste, so the first two days of the week are the best times to catch me. If I do do a report on what I do, every Monday, it’ll probably be a round up the previous week’s news and other stuff. It’ll also be something more regular, something I hope to stick to even if on occasion it’s only a couple of sentences long.
Anyway, it’s time to bid you adieu, and cross over to the other laptop for some writing-japery.
I’ve a got a fistful of stories to write and only four hours to save the earth…
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