Bit of a
hackneyed title I know, sorry, but it is only going to be a short blog this one
so forgive me the shortcuts. First of all, it’s the 17th June. WHAT!
The 17th! My last blog was the 6th May…that’s six weeks…where
did those weeks go? I mean seriously I can’t get over that. I want those six
weeks back please. To me it’s only the 13th, maybe 20th
May at the most.
Well, okay,
I’m late blogging this month, I’ll admit it. Still can’t believe it’s half way
through June…
I’ve had
lots on recently and whilst working through some social media stuff I realised
that I haven’t put another story online since 9th April 2012. If you
think I was upset about losing the last six weeks, can you imagine my shock at
realising it’s been over a year since I finished a story!
I thought
about it for a few minutes, upset at the knowledge that I have at least ten
drafts of new short stories sitting there that I haven’t touched FOR A YEAR but
then I took a moment, leant back and talked myself through why that is.
It turns out
I’m pretty happy with how Thinking Plainly is going right now, and yes, I am
itching to get back to writing every day, to attaining my original goals of
wanting to be a better writer, to develop my writing skills but I also want to
develop other opportunities that are opening up and as ideas have come to mind
I have gone for them, but as there is only so much time to spare, writing has
been slightly pushed to the sidelines.
I’m in no
rush you see, I know how long it is going to take to get where I want to be,
and the frustration of not writing is only a frustration when it is not being
replaced by something. There have been lots of times when I have sat down to
write and ended up doing nothing at all, and that is as depressing a time as
you can imagine as of course what happens is you just think about all the
troubles in the world, the ridiculousness of what you are trying to do, and you
sink lower and lower, however, when you don’t write but instead work on some
other aspect of progressing yourself, then that frustration is replaced with a sense
of challenge and achievement. You are moving forward and it’s fun! So, a year
ago did I think I would be working on so many different ideas? No. Do I think
they will all work out? No. And that’s fine. I am enjoying experimenting on new
projects and if some of them do not work out then that’s okay, I’m glad I
tried. I hope some do work out well though…and I hope you find them interesting.
So to end
this quick update, I can’t tell you much more about my writing at this time,
but I can tell you there will be lots of interesting projects coming from
Thinking Plainly over the coming months, I don’t want to share them all now as
I’ve put myself under enough pressure recently thank you very much without
promising things I don’t even know are good enough yet…!
But very soon I will
be announcing some great news about some new writers I have been working with, stay
tuned.
June over
and out.
RGR
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