Is everyone else you know currently eating, drinking, sleeping, partying, holidaying, yet you’re at your desk?
Are there a dozen other things you’d honestly rather be doing, and yet you’re still at your desk?
Did you have no time to start this book/film/story but you kind of couldn’t stop yourself and now you have to see it through – all the way through?
Are you amazed when people say :
“I love writing” (because you love having written)
“the characters write themselves” (because you have to do all the typing and it pisses you off)
“I’ve got a great story for you” (trust me, you haven’t)
Are you a brilliant cook/gardener/house-tidier/accounts-doer (ie procrastinator)?
Do you think lists like this are about the idea of being a writer rather than actually writing?
Yes? Me too. Which is why I’m writing now, not reading a blog/book/attending a class/watching another writer talk about being a writer.
How to tell if you’re a writer? Write.
Not Writing But Blogging 
This isn’t a very exciting comment, but I am spending more and more time sitting down and writing, and I have started to lose muscle!
I enjoy writing very much and try not to whip myself up about it when it’s not going well. And I seem to need a zillion proof reads . . . This is a fact.
My real comment is to say ‘Hi, Glad to see you looking well. I missed the recent event at Camberwell Library due to a clash with something else. I was also intrigued about the Loughborough Junction house clearance sales you referred to. I’ve just tried to google them to no avail . . .
I recently published 52LOVES: writers from around the world short stories and poems, which has 29 authors. You might know a few of them: Cherry Smyth, Gerard Guix?
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hi Yolanda, I don’t recall referring to an LJ house clearance? tho if it was in reference to The Room of Lost Things it was written over a decade ago …
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