Look at me, I'm doing it….

I find that writing can be like learning to ride a bike for the first time. I say this because I am one of those writers who writes infrequently. I am both lazy and suffer from writers block (OK, I'm mostly lazy and unmotivated) but when I do actually start writing something, I feel like saying – 'wow – look at me, I am actually writing'. It's like learning to ride a bike – you decide to give it a go, start peddling and all of a sudden you realise you're halfway down the street and you're off!

Is this just me or does anyone else have this sensation when they're in the flow of creating writing? Maybe I just notice it because I write in stop-start fits. Maybe if I wrote more frequently I'd lose this feeling, but at least I'd be more productive in terms of word count.

To stretch the metaphor even further, riding a bike and writing (but not at the same time, that's stupid) can both involve falling off and not getting back on again for some time. But both are easily resumed, it's just a matter of application. I must remember this. But for now 'look at me, I'm writing!'