tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2519613168245138404.post7226756117387025261..comments2023-11-02T09:16:14.403+00:00Comments on The Hesitant Scribe: write and be damned - or at the very least - a bit fed up - Oh and Shopping!hesitant scribehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11882920406681074895noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2519613168245138404.post-5798368643837780062007-07-09T17:28:00.000+01:002007-07-09T17:28:00.000+01:00Rebecca - fabulous amounts of wordage there! I jo...Rebecca - fabulous amounts of wordage there! I joined the novel race for the self same reason only the steam ran out a bit, or maybe life got in the way, or was it teaching commitments...<BR/><BR/>What ever it was, I am still nudging the word count on, hating the seeming lack of quality, and getting majorly stressed out when offspring come and hover behind me waiting for lifts hither and thitherhesitant scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11882920406681074895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2519613168245138404.post-30329319333533404762007-07-09T08:54:00.000+01:002007-07-09T08:54:00.000+01:00Whispers in the ether!hehe!pretty cool blog!keep w...Whispers in the ether!<BR/>hehe!<BR/>pretty cool blog!<BR/>keep writing!Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10093821882082987487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2519613168245138404.post-51758800504248075692007-07-09T07:00:00.000+01:002007-07-09T07:00:00.000+01:00I've got the same problem...great difficulty in ge...I've got the same problem...great difficulty in getting anything actually written with any kind of consistency! But I've just joined an online 70 day writing challenge (kinda like nanowrimo)where you have to commit to writing a cartain amount. <BR/><BR/>It's working so far - I wrote over 1200 words yesterday and 800 today (so far). I don't care if it's crap - I'll fix it later - but it helps to Rebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11582796689281835066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2519613168245138404.post-38306278587815802752007-07-08T21:10:00.000+01:002007-07-08T21:10:00.000+01:00Caroline - so true. I have a life filled with nea...Caroline - so true. I have a life filled with nearlies. <BR/><BR/>When I was a youngster, I was nearly an athlete but chose not to run in the final 400m. My replacement came 2nd and was not as fast as me.<BR/><BR/>At 18, I was nearly in a band but bottled out a week before the first gig.<BR/><BR/>I was nearly a black belt in Goju Ryu but gave that up.<BR/><BR/>I gave a lot of things up throughhesitant scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11882920406681074895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2519613168245138404.post-6278947783348798742007-07-08T20:09:00.000+01:002007-07-08T20:09:00.000+01:00Oh my! I've started you all off on the nearly woma...Oh my! I've started you all off on the nearly woman thingy! <BR/><BR/>I should start a facebook group ;-)<BR/><BR/>But it is true isn't it???? I don't want to speak tales of things that I nearly did. I nearly did lots of things ... but sometimes we need to actually do those things that make us shiver. The doing and not nearly doing should drive and not scare. For me it was the writing of a novel Carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04470638074202676460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2519613168245138404.post-35093887867298950412007-07-08T19:39:00.000+01:002007-07-08T19:39:00.000+01:00Absolute - no not at all! I don't have any proble...Absolute - no not at all! <BR/><BR/>I don't have any problems with ideas either... it's the getting them down on paper. Something seems to happen between the narrative in my head, and the putting down onto the page. That's the awful bit. The digging out. I have to dig them out of my head. Oh dear. Am I making any sense?!<BR/><BR/>I met Tob Litt not so long ago and he is one of those hesitant scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11882920406681074895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2519613168245138404.post-3807828691614536252007-07-08T19:11:00.000+01:002007-07-08T19:11:00.000+01:00oh lord, does this mean I'm not a real writer? Id...oh lord, does this mean I'm not a real writer? Ideas chase me down the street - actually, not true, they haunt my dreams and harass me in the shower... and I don't suffer angst, just procrastination... which means oh yes, shopping can be sooo much more fun - bum size irrespective.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04871239587214383387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2519613168245138404.post-32922889293459966742007-07-08T19:01:00.000+01:002007-07-08T19:01:00.000+01:00Jen - it is good to know we aren't alone, I hearti...Jen - it is good to know we aren't alone, I heartily agree!<BR/><BR/>Jon - Hubby got to the bedroom first! He chose the snoozing option funnily enough. I tried the laundry basket, my mother's wardrobe, and my littlun's rather messy bedroom, and do you know, I found no words at all.<BR/><BR/>Loads of stuff duly arrived the moment I sat down to plan next week's teaching!hesitant scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11882920406681074895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2519613168245138404.post-18745662320974632302007-07-08T18:39:00.000+01:002007-07-08T18:39:00.000+01:00Smoke free is super dooper but why don't you try w...Smoke free is super dooper but why don't you try writing in your bedroom instead of going underground to do it? Its more comfy there and you can have a snooze too!<BR/><BR/>I hid in the bedroom today to hide from my four noisiest darlings and got loads done!Jon Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04299901366453310075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2519613168245138404.post-84200046593972310262007-07-08T13:44:00.000+01:002007-07-08T13:44:00.000+01:00She'd have been okif she'd had more cinnamon!You k...She'd have been okif she'd had more cinnamon!<BR/><BR/>You know what? being that 'nearly' writer would be awful. And a shame.<BR/><BR/>It's kind of nice to know that we're not digging alone.<BR/><BR/>XJenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08781237143187343971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2519613168245138404.post-67419798952116682792007-07-08T13:31:00.000+01:002007-07-08T13:31:00.000+01:00Thanks Jen. It's great to have some encouragement...Thanks Jen. It's great to have some encouragement! I don't want to be that <I>nearly</I> writer that Caroline talks of! To be an old woman saying, "I nearly wrote a novel you know!"<BR/><BR/>So we'll keep on digging eh! And we'll try not to be quite as miserable as Virginia! ;-)hesitant scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11882920406681074895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2519613168245138404.post-75392990188062507312007-07-08T13:25:00.000+01:002007-07-08T13:25:00.000+01:00Mmmm, cinnamon should be on prescription, it reall...Mmmm, cinnamon should be on prescription, it really is heavenly and surely cures all miseries?<BR/><BR/>This is SUCH a good post - explains more articulately than I could ever put it just what I imagine Virginia Woolf meant by searching for those "Diamonds in the dust heap".<BR/><BR/>You can do it. I really think you can. REALLY!Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08781237143187343971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2519613168245138404.post-57189784806490926852007-07-08T13:22:00.000+01:002007-07-08T13:22:00.000+01:00Oh yes yes yes yes yes!More muffins is an offer I ...Oh yes yes yes yes yes!<BR/><BR/>More muffins is an offer I just cannot refuse!hesitant scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11882920406681074895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2519613168245138404.post-22748798776556631972007-07-08T13:19:00.000+01:002007-07-08T13:19:00.000+01:00It was a good afternoon...even if it didn't help y...It was a good afternoon...even if it didn't help your word count. But everybody needs time out and you definitely needed that :-))<BR/><BR/>More tea and muffins in the week then?<BR/><BR/>;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com