Getting Into The Rhythm Of Things

Habits are so dang difficult, aren’t they? All the will in the world, and you still can’t just MAKE yourself Do The Thing that you actually really want to do.

It’s terribly frustrating.

Hence my lil grid of boxes at the back of my diary for the year, a tiny incentive to nudge myself onward every time it feels especially HARD to get to the novel and actually write.

Not that any kind of bribery works for long. I have a bunch of virtual post-its up on one of my desktops, and a handful o...