13th Feb 8am

I am feeling a lot better now, been under the weather so have had a rest.
Lots of reading done and raring to go again.
Have a great day everyone.

10th Feb 8am

I have decided to have an easy week this week and try and refocus my thoughts with some meditation and stress free reading.
Having had mental health issues in the past, I have become good at knowing when they are about to resurface and dealing with them. I can feel it happening, so its time to take a step back.
This week is going to be busy for me anyway and as I always tell people, if we don't have health we have nothing.
My plan is to update the blog with my thoughts throughout.
Have a great day.

7th Feb 14

Day 4 6am: and I am staring at a blank Scrivener page. I have my idea and a brief outline of how it should go, but I don’t know how to start. My story needs some excitement, so I am going to meditate on it and see if anything comes to mind. Its bothering me that I am not getting many words down on to the page, still lots of thinking, but nothing written down to show for it.
 

7.07am: Really pleased now, written just over 1,000 words and have more of a plot idea. I don’t know how its happening but once I start things start to flow.

Thanks Geoff and the Kindling family.

I bought a book from the Kindle store last night about comedy writing. I will give that a read later.

Have a great day!

5.35am 6th February 2014

Isn’t the subconscious mind a wonderful thing? I spent most of yesterday with a briefcase and its contents on my mind and by sleep time, I was still none the wiser about the answer to every womans prayers. On waking this morning the answer popped right into my head, in fact a couple of answers. Seems like all those books I have read about relaxing and letting it happen were right. I now have an idea for a short story that made me get out of bed and get straight into Scrivener at this ungodly hour. I will start work on it now. The book will be free, so as soon as its done I will post the link so you can see the answer too.

Thanks for reading and have a great day. :-)

Beginning of a story, where would you take it?

I have done some doodling, just a beginning of a chapter. There was no plan when I sat down I just wrote what ever came into my head. Here it is and where would you take it.

Dave was sitting on the edge of his seat now. He could feel the backs of his thigh

s tightening and made a conscious effort to sit back and relax. Laying back in the corporate, faux leather chair he closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

“Ahhh!” came out almost silently , but enough to lighten the feeling of dread just a little. “Mr Harris will see you now” said the gorgeous willowy secretary who looked up at him with disdain. I am glad I am not the poor sod that has to try and keep her happy he thought as he walked to the office of Mr Sam Harris, managing director of Glowfish enterprises.

“Morning Sam” he said, without the slightest tremble in his voice. His nerves gone now

“Whats fucking good about it?” the delightful Mr Harris replied.

“Well hopefully we can do a deal to make us both a lot of money, thats a good start isn’t it”

“No it fucking isn’t” came back at him with venom.

“Spit it out and be fucking quick about it, I am very busy today and seeing your face this early in the day is upsetting me”

Jeez thought Dave. I know he’s usually grumpy in the morning but this will be a challenge.

"Well Mr Harris," he said, thinking that maybe a bit of respect may cool the grumpy old bastard a little.

"Take a look at this." Dave opened the briefcase and walked towards Sams desk.

"What the fucking hell is that?"

"This," said Dave "is the answer to every womans prayers and also a passport to a lot of money for both of us."

"Meet the?"

5th February 6am

Day two. Yesterday was difficult. The urge to go onto the internet and look at things was almost overwhelming. I now realise what its like to just stare at a blank screen and fight the mental demons. Hard work. This is what I did yesterday. Opened 2 scrivener project, Blogposts and First Words. Added 4 folders to First Words, Words, Brainstorming, Plots and Titles. I haven’t the foggiest clue about whether what I am doing is right. Should I research more? I think maybe I have done enough of that already. I need a plot. What genre am I going to write in? Will I be any good? What time is it? Do I need to go and exercise now? Am I wasting my time? Should I have another drink? Will anyone read this? If I could stay here, BIC all day and fight the procrastination and not have to go to work to earn the mortgage money I would be happier, wouldn’t I? Just write is the simple advice. Thats what I’ll do.

Up at 6am today as no exercise until later. Starting to research which genre I will be targeting. I am finding this to be more complicated than I thought or am I making it so?

Have a great day.

Day One 4th February 2014 The Day I Became A Fiction Writer

Well it is now 05.16 and I have been awake since 04.00, full of enthusiasm for this new adventure. Well really its not that new, I have been putting off getting started for the past year. I wont go into details about my procrastinating habit, suffice to say I have one, and so do you no doubt.

Forgetting the past and focusing on the future is what its all about now.

Right, what do I write? Ermmmm…..

I began my usual messing about as soon as I woke this morning. The first thing I did when I roused was turn on my smartphone and check facebook. The Kindling group is my first port of call everyday, I can justify that.

Then its my news feed, just to check if I have missed anything. Then onto my weather app, just to see what the so called experts think, even though its more accurate to just to look out of the window.

Now what?

“If I get up now I will be tired by 10am. Right, go back to sleep for an hour then.”

“Then I might not get up at all and it will be annoyance with myself all day.”

“Right, get up then. Deal with it. If you want to change your life, start now.”

So here I am on the laptop, tea to my left, notepad to my right, stuck in the middle with you.

I have another Scrivener project open. Its my first words but its empty.

Think I will stare at it until something appears. Wish me luck.

Thanks for reading and have a great day!