Had a rough count-up on the bus this evening. The Article is just over 1500 words. Am now seated at my desk in my best writerly pose, with a stapler holding open my 2013 Writers and Artists Year Book on page 28, which is where the magazine details begin. I should be on my way to Dreamland as I am up at 6 again tomorrow for the soon-to-be-kaput day job. But I couldn't resist one little stab at the laptop first. Big mistake. It'll be three in the morning before I know it if I'm not careful. Anyway - at least I am one step further on with The Article than I was this time yesterday.
There was a time that I could knock out two or three articles a week and have them re-drafted, typed, enveloped up and sent off (with the never-to-be-forgotten sae enclosed of course) in two shakes of a writer's quill. In those long gone but fondly remembered times, I kept a submission's book which I was forever updating and I'd be working on the next project before the gum on the stamps had dried. How times have changed. Here I am writing a post for my lovely fresh new-look blog simply because I had a word count and got the WAYB open beyond the intro page! Wow - last of the prolific writers.
Never mind - at least I am actually writing again. Goodnight. Sweet dreams. Diary here I come...
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