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Creative Displacement Activity
Like, I am sure, many other writers I suffer from chronic Displacement Activity. That is, I keep finding something else more inspiring than the book I am currently supposed to be writing.
Like blogging for Goodreads, for example.
So I came up with the cunning plan of organised displacement. I keep a second project running which I know that I definitely, positively should not be working on.
The rather chaotic space that is my brain gets tricked into thinking that working on this is really goofing off.
'Cant - A Gentleman's Guide' came to fruition this way. I was supposed to be working on the sequel to 'The Unfortunate Deaths of Jonathan Wild' but I kept straying.
By the time my brain realised it had been tricked, Cant was very close to completion. This being the case, I thought I might as well finish it properly, which I did.
I am now back to working on the sequel - entitled 'The Orphans of Lady Mattingham' if anyone is interested - but I need a new displacement activity.
Recently, I discovered a fascinating diary written by a body-snatcher in the early 19th century.
Under no circumstance must I do any work on this.
Like blogging for Goodreads, for example.
So I came up with the cunning plan of organised displacement. I keep a second project running which I know that I definitely, positively should not be working on.
The rather chaotic space that is my brain gets tricked into thinking that working on this is really goofing off.
'Cant - A Gentleman's Guide' came to fruition this way. I was supposed to be working on the sequel to 'The Unfortunate Deaths of Jonathan Wild' but I kept straying.
By the time my brain realised it had been tricked, Cant was very close to completion. This being the case, I thought I might as well finish it properly, which I did.
I am now back to working on the sequel - entitled 'The Orphans of Lady Mattingham' if anyone is interested - but I need a new displacement activity.
Recently, I discovered a fascinating diary written by a body-snatcher in the early 19th century.
Under no circumstance must I do any work on this.
