Comparisons

Two sides of the same footballing weekend!

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90 minutes between celebration and horror!

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Comedy and ......... frankly, worrying!

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image credits in order to (Manchester Evening News, Mufcgirl blog, ABC grandstand sport, Mail Online, Wikipedia and Zimbio)

Three of 21

Not so easy today.  A little distracted and sleepy.  Still, 518 and it made me feel good because it's running.

2 of 21

Success again. 526 including dialogue.  Epic.

Very rewarding.

Rib time!

NBB

One of 21

Aaaaaaand she's off ..............

536 words in 30 minutes!  I kid you NOT.

Great start, YIPPEE!

NBB

The making or breaking of a habit!

It takes 21 days to make / break a habit!

I established this pearler while researching something completely unrelated of course which speaks volumes for my already acknowledged and increasingly annoying habit of procrastination!

Here is the argument FOR : http://www.stevenaitchison.co.uk/blog/a-new-habit/

Here is the argument AGAINST : http://www.spring.org.uk/2009/09/how-long-to-form-a-habit.php

Please note these are only two of many I actually read - I refer back to procrastination.

Well I've decided to test myself here - so here goes ......

I will write 500 words (and no, this blog does not count) daily for 21 days - excluding weekends when I will write 500 words over 2 days.

If this works - I will have an excellent habit!  Include here "prolific writer" "success" "income generator" person etc.

If it doesn't and I feel the need to take a 2 week break after 21 days of squeezing 500 words out of my exploding head - well, I should still have around 10,500 words to use in some shape or form - which can only be a good thing!

There are only 2 rules : (of course there are rules otherwise it won't feel real)

1. I HAVE to write 500 words a day - and report, as such, each day on this blog, briefly, so that I'm held accountable by anyone reading this;
2. I CANNOT write ' Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ' as tempting as it may be!

There - I've gone and done it!

Keep me legal people!

Thank you

NBB

Back in the saddle

Just touching base.

It's Spring already - although, I suspect someone forgot to inform the weatherman. But perhaps I'm being harsh. It is warmer, mostly. Definitely wetter, a lot wetter and based on all my Google research, will remain that way for the weeks to come.

RJB and I have Safari'd, visited our beautiful homeland and spent time with family and friends.

RJB is now blogging which is noteworthy - he's blogging here http://cosmology2012.blogspot.co.uk so that's where to go if you're stalking us or just want to know where we're at.


A chapter in my life has closed which means time to refocus and get on with it. Getting paid and famous, not necessarily in that order, is the new direction.  Just to clarify that, I won't be going viral on YouTube any time soon, we're talking books, blogs, web and copy writing here folks - although that's not to say it won't be seedy.

Loads of races coming up, the 2012 Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee - busy little year.

Family moving to Sweden - I can still get excited through the sadness of parting; 'tis another holiday destination to include after all - Yay.

Better crack on or it will be Christmas and i'll have missed the boat again.

Over and out ....... don't forget your brolly

NBB

New Year's Procrastinations!

I am prone to procrastination in the worst way.  I’m very aware that this it not an exclusive club membership but a malaise I share with millions, if not billions – but it’s annoying!

One of my New Year’s resolutions (for the last 40 years) has been to shape up and stop dicking around and GET DOWN TO IT.  I’ve also read self-help books, articles, guaranteed fixes (sad I know) on the subject – I mean, if that act alone isn’t the height of procrastination,  what is?

New Year, new plan – I’m going to embrace my tardiness and rather than seek the ever elusive solution, I’m going to self analyse, self medicate and self propel my thoughts and worries – onto paper!  Excellent solution – I write to work out why I dither and don’t write.  Result, I write – which is really the whole point!

Just getting started daily and marking a blank page with text is the killer.  Perhaps if I write as many rude words as I can to mucky up the clean sheet, I’ll get bored or grossed out and be moved to more classic prose.

So if I set up a fail safe solution / enticement?  Say ……

1. No writing – no tea!  Won’t work, I’ll just drink coffee!
2. No writing – no water!  Won’t work, I’ll just drink wine – we all know where that’s heading!
3. No writing – no TV! Good thing Sky has a record facility; just means I won’t ever sleep for watching catch up TV!

See, it doesn’t work – I’m a master procrastinator and Boer maak altyd ‘n plan etc.

Idea - I’ll write about why I procrastinate, why I can’t / won’t write and even perhaps crack fiction on the subject.

Failsafe plan!  Watch this space.  He, who hesitates, is lost.

Over and out

NB