Wheelistically @ Claire.NU

I have tried writ­ing this post about six times, every time I sit here to write there is always some­thing else I should be doing.

This Bank Hol­i­day Week­end has been a com­plete washout, the weather has been dire — we seem to have had the entirety of April’s showers in the space of one May weekend.

And, even the bloody Box­ing got can­celled, ump­teen Sat­urday even­ing hours of The Big Fight Live totally writ­ten out and replaced with a load of old bol­locks. Gut­ted. It should have been a fairly inter­est­ing fight too as the main fight involved Matey (his name escapes me) who beat Aud­ley Har­rison in Feb­ru­ary, would’ve been good to see if his win was down to luck or judge­ment. Box­ing is about the only sport I can act­ively watch that doesn’t res­ult in me want­ing to pour ses­ame seeds under my eyelids.

I am almost, but not quite, up to date with my course­work. I man­aged to catch up on 2 weeks worth of pho­to­graphy and had plans to do the odd shoot or two in Epping Forest, but the weather’s seen to that and no doubt it’s pretty bogged by now. I’ve also caught up on 3 weeks worth of work on my writ­ing course (thanks to the writ­ing journal that I’d kept from my first time around).

I am try­ing to make a point of writ­ing every day, be it in my journal or through blog­ging. I des­per­ately want it to become second nature so that I can start to then write con­struct­ively, pos­sibly even to the point where I actu­ally fin­ish some­thing. I don’t think that I feel com­fort­able writ­ing at “novel” length, I intend to stick to “sud­den fiction/short shorts” until I can mas­ter the art of actu­ally fin­ish­ing what I write.

I’m con­vinced that there’s a story in my journal that is just wait­ing des­per­ately to be writ­ten, but I can’t seem to organ­ise my thoughts and the journal frag­ments into some­thing more solid and coher­ent. I just have the odd scene, the odd scrap of a char­ac­ter, a par­tic­u­lar mood or turn of phrase, but no con­flict or sense of plot yet. But I know it’s there, I just have to find it.

Wish me luck.