Writing Practice

Via Mad Melancholic Feminista, a great post and comments from Bitch PhD on daily writing practices. I've been struggling to get a couple of things written myself and some of the discussion and suggestions helped me to a) realise that I'm not alone in my flailing and often failing to get things done and b)that there are simple pratical measures I can take to help with this. I got up this morning full of good intentions and as soon as LJ was out the door to work (11am) I powered up the laptop, made a cup of tea, and sat down to work. I kept myself away from blogs and email and spent a solid hour writing, took a break (for food, blogs and email) and then did a second hour. Result: I achieved what I set out to. Now, two hours of writing might not seem like a whole lot but it is miles better than the five hours of surfing and procrastination that I was doing before. Of course, I still spent a couple of hours doing that too but it was separate from the writing time, and didn't mess with it.
In other news: we went to see Syriana last night. I really enjoyed it - it was nice to watch a film that respected its audience in terms of playing out in way that treated us as intelligent beings. Added pleasure points from the Wunderbar egg I had to munch on. In case I haven't stressed the point often enough - I *really* love going to the cinema, love it, love it, love it.