Monday 16th July

I have followed my own advice and shared some of my writing and got an encouraging response.  Now I have to keep on writing.  My approach is going to be to concentrate on the novel but also to write some short stories and poems and enter competitions.
In order to write the novel I need to do some more planning and work out the story line. I am only into chapter two and have already started to wander from one sort of story to another.
This is another form of procrastination because I am constantly editing and then coming to a full stop.
Procrastination is like an iceberg - you start to deal with the bits that are showing and then find there is a whole lot more underneath - I am drowning in my indecision.
There is also the point that procrastination is like a security blanket.  I'm not exposing myself to the real world.  But who am I fooling?  Certainly not myself, I can see through that guise and berate myself constantly.
So I need to write my next two chapters, put them aside for a day or two, work on other writings and then come back to it.  Watch this space!