I actually got on the computer just now to start writing again. Then i thought "oh heck I've not blogged for a bit" and now here i am, writing rubbish on here rather than adding to the actual work I've done so far: writing "chapter 3" and then making it bold, underlined and italicized. All very important, but that has now taken me 45 minutes.
I wasn't always this lazy. There was a time when i would get up at 7am every day, go to work til 5 and then come home and do my homework. Granted i didn't do my homework until the night before the day it was due to be handed in, but i got it done. now the draft of my first two chapters has been sitting on my desktop suffering from an abandonment complex for the best part of 3 months.
So what can i do? I'm not going to kid myself and say I'll get it done eventually. I need a deadline, one that someone will force me to stick to. any volunteers out there are welcome to try.
I went to the war memorial in Lancaster yesterday. I've always loved it because of the angel statue, but yesterday was different. As part of my procrastination i watched the entire box set of Band of Brothers, and have found myself more interested in that part of history than i ever have been before. Of course I've always know there were heavy causalities in both the great wars, but seeing all their names, some of them linked together with the word "brothers" was really emotional. I didn't try not to cry. I just let it happen.
I also went to have a proper look at the Victoria Monument (after living here for 4 years you'd have though i would have done it a while ago) and was fascinated by the depictions of so many illustrious Victorians, such as those who I've been very interested in lately: John Millais, John Ruskin and Darwin. Absolutely fascinating. As you can see though, this has got absolutely nothing to do with what I'm meant to be writing about so I'll be off now. I might let the hamster out for a run first though, or maybe play about on facebook for a bit...
