Round and Round in Circles

I've had a bit of an unproductive week writing wise. My thoughts keep going round in circles. I've yet to finalise a subject for my life writing (although I had a bit of a breakthrough at 11pm last night) and I'm thinking of rewriting the first two chapters of my novel. Meanwhile, ideas for new projects keep popping into my head.

As always, the arrival of Writing magazine and Writers News on my doormat provided some much needed focus and I'm starting to get back on track. I realise that actually, I have written quite a lot in the last week. There just hasn't been many gems in the rubble.

Here's to a more productive writing week (and finishing the Jilly Cooper).

A New Distraction

There is a new item in my house today which has caused me not to write at all. I'm hoping that in the future it will create the calm I need to settle down and write. At the moment though, I just keep staring at it.

It took two cars to get it here, and two strong men to struggle it into the house without killing the residents. My brother decided that he needed more space, so he has given me his huge fish tank complete with beautiful fish.

For the whole afternoon the four of us (me, partner, four year old and dog) have been mesmerised, gazing at litle clown loaches nipping in and out of their cave and sword tails hiding in the greenery.

Long story short, I have had to tear myself away upstairs to get any work done at all.