It Works For Me. Jacqueline Farrell Shares Her Personal Writing Rules.

I have one writing rule: write something every day.

Unfortunately life has a nasty habit of getting in the way. I have a little fantasy that if I was as rich and famous as JK Rowling or Stephen King, I'd have all day for writing; and irritating things like work, shopping, laundry, children etc wouldn't be allowed to get on my way.

I would be the GREAT AUTHOR and my ART would come before all. Common sense, however, tells me that famous authors, before they were famous, had to put in the hard graft, not allow themselves to be distarcted, and focus on what they were doing.

This is the antithesis of me. I am distracted by the slightest thing. Sometimes I'll do the housework before writing, not because I enjoy housework, but because it's a good excuse not to write. 

I don't even know why I think like that. I enjoy writing, dammit. It's not like it's my day job, where I'd get fired if I didn't turn up. And yet... and yet... sometimes procrastination is irresistable, particularly now with the internet and all the lovely stuff I can do online. Book buying, looking at new movies, reading about my favourite TV programmes, looking up synopses of episodes of programmes I'm watching on Netflix before I watch them (why do I do that? Why?), shopping online, reading other people's blogs, trying to get to grip with all the stuff author blogsites tell me I should be doing to self-market... the list is endless.

In fact I'm procrastinating now. I should be writing.