Lazy

Not checked this side of the blog for a while. Am surprised at how lax one can be. Posts with stories not uploaded (and now I can't find the relevant memory sticks, computer discs and I certainly won't be retyping from draft printouts stored in some box in some prvious home), stories not properly edited... What a mess. The one called 'Twelve', it has no purpose, no end, and it comes across as biography and it's not, it's fiction. At some point it was meant to be a collection. Not for print but for me. There was one I really liked, not finished of course and I can't even recall the tille right now, shocking, but it had a 'Snows of Kilimajaro' kind of feel. But someone said it reminded them of Stephen King's 'Misery', so I let it lie. Darn, what was it called. There were so many good titles and a brief ouline. No work done.

And there's a whole 30,000 words of a novel missing, 'Trail'(appropriately missing on the aforementioned discs). And the helpful and comic guide to the '100 Things You Really Should Have Learnt By Now' - which reached thing # 23 and fizzled out.

Clearly am still waiting for my calling and it's not that of a writer. Can't even punctuate properly at best of times and absolutely hate re-drafting. But have never been very good at hiding at home and just writing, as evidenced by 'the out and about' blog side. Sigh... I'll be dead before...