As I said in my profile, Id like to think of myself as an author, with a book in progress. Closer to the truth is that Im someone who has a book with no title, has written nine short chapters over the course of six years, and its only just getting started. Ive set myself a target to finish before 2020, when Ill be forty, and too old to enjoy the fame, etcetera. <*dv_0*>Id really like to write another few chapters by the end of the year, but cant sit at the computer knowing that Im going to write some more of it. I find that the best time to write this book is when I am chronically bored, not when I have an urge to be creative. Think of my book as canyon or gorge if you will. The boredom will have me trundle towards the edge and down the vertical slope of the rock face. My creative urges on the other hand are armed with my good intentions, which are in this analogy a large pole. Ill go running up to my book canyon in true pole vaulting style, catch on a stone cube(Writers block. Also would have accepted Stumbling block) before I get to the edge, and end up stuck up the top of a very long pole. <*dv_2*>One day maybe Ill clear the canyon, but I think the best I can hope for is to reach a 100 pages trajectory and land in a small bush. One of the main problems I have with writing this book is because I dont touch my story at all for months (OK, sometimes years). That means I forget where Im up to, whos doing what, where they are, what the characters are like. To catch up, I just re-read what Ive written, and make adjustments. An hour down the line, and Ive probably deleted more words than written. <*dv_1*>If this book ever makes it to completion, it will have the best first nine chapters in the universe. I have a very bad work ethic when it comes to writing, which I first noticed in college. It was a vicious circle Id get an assignment, leave it to the last minute and then rush it to hand it in. Remarkably, my marks were ok (not great, but ok). This would give me a confidence boost, like the kind when people survive plane crashes and things that indestructibility. When the next assignment came around, instead of learning my lesson Id leave it even later. After all, Id always been able to do it in time before. I wish Id done it differently now of course, but I had to fit in my slobbing-around-doing-nothing-time. I wonder what my grades would have been if Id taken my time and handed stuff in before it was due, like all the boffs. Would it have completely changed my life, would you now be reading the work of a world famous author? No, because a top-class author wouldnt be giving their work away for free to insignificant web monkeys like you. As I am neither top-class, nor an author, yet I do have time on my hands I am writing for you. See this here, this is for you.
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