I should be JFDI but, I don’t know, something’s missing.<\/p>\n
Some small piece of motivational ‘oomph’ seems to have fallen out of my psyche and is probably hidden under the couch, where I have spent so much time this weekend.<\/p>\n
So instead of writing the outline for that killer final episode of Shelved and re-editing what’s been written, I’m sitting at the dining table previewing music for future podcasts.<\/p>\n
I don’t know if I’m suffering from the usual trap that all writers fall in to – auto, auto-generated, inverted, self-procrastination – or if this one has been brought on by the irritating but relatively minor laptop crash that happened earlier this week.<\/p>\n
Yes, the crash did cause me to lose some<\/em> data. Two files, to be precise. And the loss of one file didn’t matter, whilst the other can be easily reconstructed with about 90 minutes effort.<\/p>\n But it’s the thought of that reconstruction, those long lost 90 minutes, that seems to be stopping me from getting up, applying the JFDI and finishing the job in hand.<\/p>\n I have a 1,500-word feature to write – correction, I should have delivered a 1,500-word feature *last weekend* but, you know…<\/p>\n This is not me. This is bollocks.<\/p>\n Normally if I’ve got a target I’m (to mix metaphors with mad abandon) up and at it like a rat up a nun’s drainpipe.<\/p>\n Whatever.<\/p>\n But the key structural component in my writing is missing *from* my writing; it’s not missing from anything else in my life, just absent from my writing.<\/p>\n And the name of the missing part?<\/p>\n Humour.<\/p>\n For some unknown reason I can’t write the funnies at the moment.<\/p>\n There’s plenty of fun, and funnies, in my life; I just can’t work it out in to this one aspect of my work.<\/p>\n That’s a bit rubbish really, especially as the big piece of writing is the aforementioned sitcom.<\/p>\n Do people still say ‘aforementioned’?<\/p>\n Has the writing part of my brain fallen in to a wormhole and is now bobbing about in some period costume drama of an alternate reality?<\/p>\n Well, has it, Mr Darcy?<\/p>\n Oh hell, there’s no hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I should be JFDI but, I don’t know, something’s missing. Some small piece of motivational ‘oomph’ seems to have fallen out of my psyche and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}