- Power cuts happen just before you mean to back up your work for the evening. You find you have lost all that evening's work. You swear it will never happen again. You simply swear. You become paranoid about backing up your work every ten minutes or so. You feel a little ashamed you swore. You feel even more ashamed for being an idiot and not backing up your work often enough. And you had read all the advice on this topic so you can't claim you didn't know. Care to guess how I know this?!!
- You can never find a pen when you want one. Most people can't but when you're a writer, isn't there something shameful about that? We are meant to have the tools of the trade on us, yes?
- Toner/ink jet cartridges always run out half way through a story or novel.
- Point 3 is guaranteed 100% if you are rushing to meet a deadline.
- You will have loads of ideas at any one time and not know which to go with first or, having managed to catch up with said ideas, you find your mind is now a total blank. (I get round the latter problem by making myself have brainstorming sessions. I tell myself it doesn't matter how rubbish my thoughts here are - I don't have to use them after all - and, funnily enough, this approach works for me).
- Phone calls always happen at that stage in a story when you really do have to concentrate. It takes sheer strength of will to be polite to the caller (family, friends etc). I don't bother with said strength of will if the call is from one of those wretched automated things. I express myself in a way that makes me feel better!
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AuthorI'm Allison Symes and write fairytales with bite, especially novels and short stories. Archives
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