October 2025
Focus, and Finish the Fucker
Went to print out something at home the other day and the printer wouldn’t work. It took me a few more minutes than it should have to realise that I hadn’t connected the printer to the new Wi-Fi following my move from Sky to Virgin. Took me a while to sort, but I got there in the end.
The thing I wanted to print out was one of my nearly 'so close, but so far' finished novels so that i could read it on paper and get back into it in my head before finishing it. It’s 52k words at the moment and I reckon it’ll probably only be about 5-10k or so to finish it.
Yesterday I put the A4 file with the 167 page, almost but not quite finished, effort in my bag, with the thought that I may get to read some whilst out.
In the end I didn’t get around to reading any of it, but it was weird how I bumped into two people in the same pub—half an hour apart—from my old writing group (the Poised Pen). I left the group years ago and it died a little while afterwards. Don’t think me leaving was the catalyst for its departure, so don’t blame me. I do think that it was a spooky coincidence seeing two of my old writing cohorts, in a place I regularly go to—but have never met either of them there before—whilst I’m about to revisit a serious writing endeavour. It’s October I guess so Spooky! is the way of things, ain’t it?
Next things. Read. Focus. And complete writing the fucker.
The thing I wanted to print out was one of my nearly 'so close, but so far' finished novels so that i could read it on paper and get back into it in my head before finishing it. It’s 52k words at the moment and I reckon it’ll probably only be about 5-10k or so to finish it.
Yesterday I put the A4 file with the 167 page, almost but not quite finished, effort in my bag, with the thought that I may get to read some whilst out.
In the end I didn’t get around to reading any of it, but it was weird how I bumped into two people in the same pub—half an hour apart—from my old writing group (the Poised Pen). I left the group years ago and it died a little while afterwards. Don’t think me leaving was the catalyst for its departure, so don’t blame me. I do think that it was a spooky coincidence seeing two of my old writing cohorts, in a place I regularly go to—but have never met either of them there before—whilst I’m about to revisit a serious writing endeavour. It’s October I guess so Spooky! is the way of things, ain’t it?
Next things. Read. Focus. And complete writing the fucker.
Comments
Far Too Many Binges
08/10/25 07:58 Filed in: TV
Bloody hell, I’ve been wasting too much time lately binge watching TV series. Some have been good. Some haven’t been. Some have been new, others old. Some multiple series long. Fook! They’ve been eating up far too much of what we all have limited quantities of: time.
Blue Lights was worth a binge to be fair. And just six episodes (this one series).
I could and—indeed—should have been reading, writing, or playing the guitar. I need to return back to my writing, both fiction and my blogging. Maybe even poems and songs. Even if they prove to be crap it’d be a better use of time than watching yet more TV. I really don’t need to binge watch one series and find myself binging on another one. It’s just a become a bad habit.
This was good but I binged all the seasons in a week or so. Crazy.
At least I can’t binge Slow Horses, as they are releasing one episode at a time over on Apple. How old fashioned. But seriously good to boot.
Let’s see if I can control myself in front of the telly box in the coming weeks. And replace that with some goodness.
Blue Lights was worth a binge to be fair. And just six episodes (this one series).
I could and—indeed—should have been reading, writing, or playing the guitar. I need to return back to my writing, both fiction and my blogging. Maybe even poems and songs. Even if they prove to be crap it’d be a better use of time than watching yet more TV. I really don’t need to binge watch one series and find myself binging on another one. It’s just a become a bad habit.
This was good but I binged all the seasons in a week or so. Crazy.
At least I can’t binge Slow Horses, as they are releasing one episode at a time over on Apple. How old fashioned. But seriously good to boot.
Let’s see if I can control myself in front of the telly box in the coming weeks. And replace that with some goodness.