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Skewed Focus

After a brilliant beginning to NaNoWriMo where I felt great about myself and my productivity, I fell back into the Not Writing Habit. I'm looking at how that happened and of course the main reason is that I popped off to Glasgow for a couple of days last week and when I came back I didn't get straight back to the story.

Glasgow was excellent. We went to see a concert on the Tuesday night and were entertained by Iced Earth (OK), Lamb of God (I was not expecting to enjoy them and I liked them so much I even bopped a little) and Heaven and Hell (really the mighty Black Sabbath fronted by Dio. The following day we headed over to Southside Ink as we had basically booked the day for ourselves and each of us were to take a turn under the needle. I may write another blog about that. As it turned out there were not enough hours in the day for all four of to get inked and still get to the SECC for the gig at night, so I was re-scheduled for the next morning.

The gig that night featured the most excellent and fanciable Joan Jett and, as I got my full aerobic workout of the year dancing to her set, I thanked my stars that I hadn't gotten my ink after all. The monumental Motorhead came on next and whilst it was good to see them, I was a bit disappointed by the sound and the somewhat shambolic nature of Lemmy - but let's face it *it's Lemmy*. Last but not least, Alice Cooper and that frightening hanging from the gallows stunt. I have to say that I look forward to still being as dangerous when I'm shoving towards 60.

Next morning we returned to the tattoo parlour and I got this:

Dragon Tattoo

It looks a bit red there because this was taken about 30 seconds after he stopped drilling ink into me, but it looks fantastic now - just a wee bit of scabbing left to clear. The moon is actually my first tattoo from around 9 years ago and he added some shading to bring it out a bit, it's the dragon that's new and I love it!

So after this wee adventure I returned home and failed to pick up my story and each day that failure feeling got heavier and heavier. There was also some other heavy stuff going on with a lot of negativity swirling around and I realised that I was showing signs of serious wear. Sometimes it's too easy to let other people drag me down.

Well today I got pissed off and opened up my writing software and hammered away and now I'm still waaaaaay behind on the NaNoWriMo, but at least I'm writing again. And the thing is as soon as I started telling more of the story the near depression just kind of flew away. You probably already knew that.

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Posted on November 15, 2007 in Creativity, Wordy, Writing.

One Response to “Skewed Focus”

  1. Misssy M says:
    November 16, 2007 at 10:18 am

    Hello lovely- glad you’re back blogging again too. Have been catching up on them in a one-er as have not been doing too much blog reader in the last few weeks because I’m horribly busy at work (boo).

    Your tattoo is excellent. Ouch, though.

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