I got distracted by the sunshine...

 I started last week with good intentions. I organised my writing space, adorned it with flowers and a pretty new sign (see below), lit a candle and got to work. I managed to write over 10,000 words in one day, sent my chapters to a few friends who have kindly given me some feedback and even researched some literary magazines and short story competitions. I was feeling very productive.

Then the sunshine hit, we had a six day heatwave and I just could not bring myself to write anymore. To be fair, my lovely little writing space was far too hot to write in and all I felt like doing was reading instead. Although I would have much preferred to have kept motivated and written a lot more (as I felt that I was on a bit of a roll) and I am starting back at work soon so I will not be as fortunate to have so much writing time for much longer, I can’t begrudge the time reading. As I have probably said before, I always feel that reading helps me when I hit a writing wall and I immersed myself in the world of The Witcher, Nevermoor and The Time Traveller’s Wife across those six days and, truth be told, they were days well spent.

Now, let’s get back to writing…