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The thing about writing

Back in November, during the height of NaNoWriMo season I hit a few days of not writing - damnable bad timing. I put it down at the time to putting too much pressure, too much expectation, on myself. After all 50K in a month would be easy. Well this last week I've had another such writing free time; only this time for a different reason. I was feeling under the weather. Now in and of itself that wouldn't have been a problem except for the day job part. The mental energy I did have was used up there leaving little for writing. I did read through another 3 chapters of my bawdy SF novel making red pen corrections but no new words. I think this is the way it's always going to be unless a miracle happens and I not only sell a book but it earns me enough that I don't have to have a day job. That's a pipe dream though. I have been scribbling in my notepads though. There are more notes on my 4th weird Ben Wlliamson novella and on the secret society paranoid SF novel so I co...