Yesterday & Today: 27th July

Apart from a little New Contexts: 5 admin, yesterday was really all about navel-gazing i.e. me trying to decide what I should be working on next. Or working on when we’ve moved – hopefully -three weeks’ time.

I ended up finding myself wondering whether I was constantly thinking about writing long fiction because that’s what I thought I ought to be writing. I imagined sitting across from myself in a mentoring session; I wonder what I should say to me..?

Maybe that’s what I need to work out.

I have sufficient ideas to start three or four projects tomorrow if I wanted to, and I did draft a kind of foreword to the ‘dangerous’ political piece to which I referred yesterday – but I don’t want to start them just yet. Partly that’s for practical reasons, but more so out of uncertainty (or lack of belief). I haven’t touched ‘Z’ in nearly a week now and don’t really feel that bad about it. What does that tell you?

I’ve always said that you need to believe in what you are writing, and at the moment I guess I’ve nothing on the stocks that I believe in…

Perhaps 17 Alma Road will be the last long fiction for a while.

All of which means that I’m not sure about today. I think it will be much like yesterday: NC:5 bits and pieces, and more navel-gazing…

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