Desert of Zin

Less than a month to go until NaNoWriMo and I’m getting that familiar itch.  (no, not THAT familiar itch…)

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Aurora has some childcare (whoo!) which gave myself and Ruthy a rare afternoon off.  Bliss.

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It has been a while (as usual) so I thought the blog required a bit of a update.

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(Or ups and downs and the inevitable return of the Crisis of Confidence.)

I have a habit of becoming hermit-like every so often, even more than normal, and recently has been one of those periods.  It’s annoying (a bloody pain to be honest) but it’s just something that has happened for years, easily since I hit my 20′s.

Now, I know this recent one is not a relapse of the poor mental health that plagued me last year.  Generally I’ve been quite chipper.  Work trundles on, they throw me some shifts if they’re feeling benevolent (joke, joke), Aurora is blossoming and Ruthy is as lovely as ever.  A good and erstwhile chum is back from down south, it’s always good to have him around, and I have no reason to feel like this.

Yet I do.

Of course, the usual reason my mood suffers is due to the pressure I put myself under with my writing.  Same old, same old.  Perhaps I’m just going through the same mood I hit when I had my last whinge.

Ah, bugger.  Prog beckons, I think.  That should break me out of it.

- Alistair

I’ve been having a bit of a struggle recently.

With everything I’ve written so far, even the stuff I think is half reasonable, I always get the feeling that it’s a bit flat.  There’s always that voice at the back of my head telling me that it could have been richer in the detail and, well, just better. And I just don’t know how.  The added concern is that my writing is never going to be more than mediocre.

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So, happy new year!

It’s been a ‘interesting’ year, full of ups and downs.

It started well, with me riding high off the relative success of last year’s NaNoWriMo.  It was an important milestone with my writing, the first time I ever got around to actually finishing something in a short time that I even remotely liked.  So, that was Planet Of Snakes (a sequel to the unfinished Desert Of Zin) and very happy I was with it too.

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According to the info sent out by the Department for Work and Pensions, though the wonderful people in the Job Centre, my local housing authority is the City of Westminster.  It’s a bit of a trek from Partick, I know…

Just been on to their Glasgow office, they take a very dim view of the peeps taking the initial telephone claims.  seem to think their attention can only be held for a few minutes.  And by the state of the customer information they sent out for me to confirm, that guy just might be right…

- Alistair

…stays together?

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Wow.  It’s been over a month since my last post, and life has been hectic.

Let’s see.  What has been going on in the life of Al?

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Although this shouldn’t come as any great surprise…

Well, what’s new (since the last post way back on the 13th of June)?

To be true, there’s good and bad.

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