Leaping away from writing!

It’s leap day and that means it’s the last day of February and that means the writing challenge is over! I still have two plays to write today but I know what I want to write about – I just need to sit my arse down and get them written. Instead, I am writing this

Load of old…

Since I last blogged I have been keeping up to date with my writing challenge and I must say it is going very badly. I am writing every day but 98.5% of what I’ve written has been total shit. Excuse my language but there’s really no other way to put it – it has been

Catch up!

This morning I have repotted some plants, cleaned and hoovered the apartment, and caught up on my emails. I am also 3 days behind in my writing challenge. And I’m writing this… So, yes, Distracto Mode is very much engaged. Sigh. Since I last blogged I’ve written two plays about singing or inspired by a

I got better.

To quote Monty Python and The Holy Grail…I did indeed get better. I will always have the distraction of pain and brain fog but it comes and goes and for now, it has gone. Just as well because I’ve got to write a play every day and that is so far out of my comfort

NaNoWriMo Day 16

So…I can confirm that my brain has turned to rice pudding and it’s all gone a bit rollercoastery. Day 9 was 1,650 words with a total of 12,399… Day 10 = 2,006 Day 11 = 2,187 Day 12 = 1,191 Day 13 = 3,284 Day 14 = 1,324 Day 15 = 2,220 with a total

Done did that.

The Literal Challenge 28 Plays Later is over for another year. Every year it’s a rollercoaster of emotions. For someone who doesn’t write every day the resentment I feel at being ‘made’ to write every day is real and has the fury of a toddler who is told they can’t stick their finger in the

28 Plays again

Every year that I do the 28 Plays Later writing challenge I hit a point where I think…’never again’… I don’t usually write every day and I know that goes against what a lot of writers believe that all writers should be doing but I have zero fucks to give about that. If I want