More Writing About Not Writing

I was engaging in what could loosely be described as 'research' yesterday and ended up on a random blog where I located the following sentence:

'I'd like to be a writer, but then I go weeks without writing anything. And I think that I like the idea of being a writer more than I like writing'.

I smiled as I read that.

Mainly because it seems like a sentence that could also apply to me. I wondered that despite the explosion of blogging and people being able to freely publish their own work over the internet and dream that they would be able to do this for a living, how many are actually serious about putting the effort in. Or how many, like me, can manage to work a full day and still be motivated to sit in front of a computer screen after they get home from sitting in front of a computer screen all day.

But, to give an update on the imaginary book that I got so excited about writing in a previous book. I came up with some chapter titles, and a theme for each. And then scrapped them because they were rubbish.

So I'm back to square one.

But then, as my friend Tim used to tell me, everytime you throw something you have made away, you get closer to what you really want to create, even if you don't feel like you are making any progress.