I should be writing. Scads of time, but I’ve only achieved seven chapters so far and the procrastination is growing by the day.
It doesn’t help that I’ve found a few
new-to-me writers and I’m consuming them as though blindness is right around
the corner. In fact, I’ve already read and enjoyed six novels just in the month
of January, along with an Elly Griffiths.
In fact, I’m so taken with some of the
writing, that I’ve been copying it into a journal the twins gave me for
Christmas.
I can’t
resist sharing some. These are from Cynthia Harrod-Eagles’ mystery, Headlong:
(describing a publishing house) “. . where
a vast herd of employee browsed
quietly
on words, peaceable as buffalo.”
“Atherton peeled away from the kerb and
back into traffic in a movement
so
sleek and smooth a dolphin would have tried to mate with it.”
See my
problem? Why send my poor efforts into the world when there’s text like that
out there?
But at least I’m doing something
useful with my time. Just this afternoon I’ve copied and printed a recipe for
Chicken Pomodoro and another for Crockpot Pastina Soup. I’ll never finish book
5 but we’ll eat well.
Six books in one month? I remember when I could do that, then I went back to work once the youngest was in school and the books became fewer, then I got a computer and suddenly there wasn't enough time.
ReplyDeleteTwenty years as an English teacher, working on the degrees to get me there, and raising two kids starved me for time to read.
Delete"I’m consuming them as though blindness is right around the corner" -- I smiled when reading this wonderful phrase. It's just as good as the texts you quote from those novels!
ReplyDeleteWell, thank you very much, kind lady!
DeleteI like the buffalo image, but I'm less certain about the mating dolphin.
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