Showing posts with label travelling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travelling. Show all posts

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Here, There, Somewhere






All in all, I have to admit that this has been a really, really bad period for me. Not just inspiration-wise, luck-wise, or internet-wise, but also pretty much everything-else-wise, too.

I have been having really, really slow going getting inspired these days. This blog was supposed to help inspire me to start writing again, and so it has. But blog writing is very different from novel writing, as all writers would probably agree. It takes very, very little to put someone off novel writing when they are in a slump and trying to make their way to fit word to paper (or screen, as the case may be).

With me, the lack of internet, which usually in no way has any direct correlation with novel writing (no, wait, the relationship is inverse; the more internet I have, the less time I have to write) aaaaand I lost track of where I was. Where was I?

Ah, yes. The internet, which usually makes me write less, is now gone, and for that reason, I am in no mood at all to write. Makes sense? Not at all, and yet here I am, determinedly sticking to this excuse like a guy standing smugly on ice that is both visibly and audibly cracking ominously all around him.

Thursday, January 16, 2014

To Where Mine Thoughts Fly



Ah, the joys of travelling.

I deal with jet lag as badly as the next guy. I just so happen to be one of the laziest people you’d have ever been unfortunate enough to meet. And being as lazy as I am, over the years I have perfected the art of milking every opportunity I get to stretch my feet out and plant myself in front of a screen.

A long trip? Heh heh.


So you took two days to recover from that flight. Wow. Must have been brutal. Me get back after taking the same trip? You wouldn’t catch me stepping out of the house for a week. Unless mum threatens to repossess the laptop if I don’t leg it to the store on her whim or my phone runs out of credit and I’m out of backup recharge cards. Those don’t count. No, they don’t.

Up to about a couple of months ago, I used to make this weekly commute every weekend, and each trip would take roughly three hours. I’d stay overnight Fridays and Saturdays and be back home by midnight Sunday. You guessed it; I wouldn’t budge out of bed till midday Tuesday. Sue me, opportunities like that are hard to come by. Especially for me.