2nd/3rd/4th August Catch up!

Hello! I am back from a lovely few days away. With Edinburgh looming (I am going up on Friday), these last 3 days, and my holiday with my friend's to the Peak District, I have spent an incredible amount of time away from my home recently. I feel quite the jet-setter.

2nd August

As I said in my previous blog, I planned to write some stand-up on the journey to London Euston from Tring; I am pleased to say that I managed this. I might try some of it out later this week, if I can polish it in time.

3rd August

To be completely honest, I didn't get much written. I was preoccupied by the board games based on Bargain Hunt (AMAZING) and Men Behaving Badly, respectively. Throw in Crash Team Racing and Mario Kart: Double Dash, and you have I think this is probably my first day since I started this challenge where I've failed, to tell the truth. But, really, I am not that bothered by this. Sure, I didn't manage to get something down, but if this little project I've embarked on gets me writing something for 6 days out of every week, then I see no reason to be annoyed at myself if I occasionally slip up, especially if I slip up purely because I was busy having a fun time! This isn't going to lull me into a mindset where I let myself miss days just because "I don't feel like writing today", or anything like that; it is just a genuine admission of the fact that there will be days in a year where I am too busy to take time out of my day to write.

4th August

Today, I have spent time adding to my superhero story that I started last year. Progress had stopped for a long time, with the "date modified" detail telling me that I last worked on this project on this particular project on the 5th of November 2013. Reading it back, there is plenty that could use editing/re-writing, a process I have started. I'd love to be able to stretch this story out into something more substantial over the upcoming months. The longest piece of fiction I have ever written was around 6000 words long, so attempting a novel-length piece of work is completely alien to me. Perhaps that is partly why I have put off working on it for so long? But that is also why I really want to work on it.

Tomorrow I will actually write something, instead of writing about writing, which is effectively all this blog is. BUT IT STILL COUNTS.

Thanks for reading.

Tom.