Wednesday, April 20, 2005

pause


I've really been enjoying posting to my blog every day: the discipline of writing something every day is good for me, as it helps keep me focused and alert.

However, I think that I'll probably be posting less, for two reasons: (a) I want to spend more time writing my novel; (b) I've just started reading The Brothers Karamazov, and I want to finish it before I die.

Wish me luck.

5 comments:

Mags said...

Good luck, but I'll miss you!

red one said...

Good luck and WEAR YOUR BIKE HELMET. You really shouldn't have to worry about imminent death every time you start reading a big book. ;-)

I hope you'll keep up the posting. I still don't believe it clashes with novel writing (says know-nothing RedOne who has never even attempted to write a novel, but anyway.)

Write about what you know, they say. And in your blog you do. Very well, at that. Isn't that a good exercise? Good source material? Or at least a way of writing uninibitedly? I've been led to believe novelists tend to get a bit stressed about the creative process.

Ah well, it's your life and you should of course do what you want with it. But still...

RedOne

red one said...

There should have been a :-( at the end of my comment. So :-(

A Sad Blogger

Andy said...

Thanks, peeps. Very flattering! I'll still be around, but I may not be looking in every day.

But...I realise that I'd miss the interactions with you people, too. It's really great to feel that you're connecting -- in some way -- with different people in different parts of the world.

Taeko: you started this whole thing off, by mailing me about my annual posts; thanks for turning me on to this whole blog thing -- it's really enriched my mental life, and opened up some new dimensions for me. Thanks!

Red: you seem like a very generous person. I do always wear a helmet these days -- even just to walk upstairs.

Maybe I should try getting up earlier in the morning and doing a 'morning blog' instead of an evening one? That way, I could do both things.

I'll set the alarm for 04:55 and see if that could work. Pip pip!

Andy said...

I will...having an audience is an incentive to an attention-seeking freak like me.

[exit, pursued by a pair of trousers held aloft on a stick...]