The Night Of A Writer's Life
30 JUNE 2024 - MY TAKE ON 7 TIPS FOR WRITERS.
I have been absent yet again and have no plans for a new ‘schedule’ or ‘rota-of-content’ which is usually how I make my comeback after being AWOL. All I can hope to achieve is the usual ‘putting myself out there as daily as I can make it’.
I guess I need to take heed in what this tip is saying too because most things that I write about I would never say aloud to anyone but I get what he means with the voice and tone element. I still say fuck and cunt a lot and punctuate sentences with the word fucking this and fucking that (something I have actually tried to tone down a fraction). All I can say it that I may or may not be taking this tip as advice.
It’s funny because I used to agree about reading to improve my writing but I am a slow and sloppy reader Hawk Tuah so I very rarely put this into practice, however after having no choice but to use the Facebook browser for my messages of late (because I am still without mobile) I have found myself silently scrolling and really fucking enjoying rediscovering MEMES; and this has just made me feel like all the best ideas have already been done! I feel inferior that all these people, these meme-makers, can articulate my feelings far more quickly than me and make it funny. Something which I always intended to try to be ‘funny’ but got lost along the way. I might take this as a sign to hone in on my craft of ‘comedic writing’.
and…. when I say craft - this is exactly all I mean. Just writing. Writing. Writing.
hmmn… As soon as I am supposed to sleep I get the urge to write but my mind, body and patience are too exhausted by then. I have a routine now where I get up before 8am (a lie in compared to most of you more disciplined writers out there!) and get into to bed no later than 1.30 am. *for the record I started writing this newsletter from scratch, directly into my drafts on the dashboard, about 5-10 minutes ago. The time now 'like clockwork’ lol is 00:43am. I might have a wee dabble in the doings of typing and possibly talking to you into the night so, staying up a little later. It is Saturday Night after all. No later than 2:45am because if I’m still up at 3:00am it’ll be Game Over for going to bed and I’ll be pulling an all-nighter - making up for lost time - because 3:00am is for me, like many others worldwide, my witching hour where my internal universe comes allliiiiiiivvvve! I used to love that at this time all my magic would come to light and happen.
Nah. (the nearest I can muster is an empty to-do list and half a quote on a note.)
I don’t assume this… I KNOW THEY ARE and I try to Chase them, just doing my best to Catch up, I’d hate to be the ones racing in front with nothing but the finish late to keep me going. I’m happy having people who are smarter and more successful ahead of me, they can be the beacons in the night of a writer’s life.