I noticed something about myself today (Hurrah, you think, how fascinating). Tomorrow morning I've got to hand in my copy for next week's Campaign and I've got nothing. No words. No clue. Thing is, I've got quite a good idea for it. I know what I want to write about. It's quite interesting and there are things to be said. But I just can't start.
It doesn't normally work this way.
Normally I have no real clue what I'm going to write about, but something churns away at the back of my head all week and at some stage a sentence or phrase pops out. So I write that down. Then plaster stuff to the front and back of it until it gets to 440 words. Then I look at what I've written, try and work out what it's about and tweak, nudge and massage it until it actually is about that. Then I send it off.*
Can't do that this week. I've started with a strategy. I'm screwed.
*And please don't tell me that's how it reads, I know.
I'm finding too that with something I'm writing. I already know what I think about it so it's not as interesting to write up.
Posted by: Emily | March 30, 2007 at 08:39 AM
Next time you're stuck give me a shout Russell. I'll sub for you.
Does chin balancing, the Moonwalk, bagpipes and a quick slide show of some knots followed by Candle in The Wind qualify for your conference ?
Posted by: TomLR | March 30, 2007 at 09:49 AM