Sep 16 2007
Time For a Break
Today marks the first day of my week long holiday/vacation/whatever you want to call it. Essentially what it really means is that I don’t have to go into work, and I may have a chance to actually relax for the first time in months. I really wish I had the spare cash to actually get out of Edinburgh for a couple of days, but unfortunately that’s a luxury I’ll have to do without.
I do have a lot of plans for this week, but with the Rugby Word Cup currently on TV, some of those plans may have to be dealt with another time. One thing I had really intended on doing was to go out to various cafes and pubs to do some writing. That plan took a huge hit when the battery on my laptop decided that it no longer wanted to hold a charge for more than ten minutes. I’ve watched the battery health decrease dramatically each day since the start of the week, and it shows no indication of slowing down. Batteries from Apple are £100 and I don’t really know if I can realistically spend that kind of cash just now, not with a £500 dental bill hanging over my head. It’s going to have to wait until the end of October.
It means I’m tied into writing from home, or finding somewhere where I can use their power outlets. There aren’t many places that I’ll be able to do that, since it relies on sitting at specific tables that have power beside or under them. Not ideal. So if I do decide to get out of the house to write, it’s all going to have to be longhand in my trusty Moleskine.
This coming week also signals the real beginning of my journey into moving away from IT, and into a writing career. Since I made the decision that it’s what I really wanted to do I’ve had virtually no free time to really move forward. Work has been so busy, and as I was looking after the place on my own for the last month, I had no energy when I got home, and any creativity was crushed under the weight of stress and exhaustion.
I have a few projects I want to start, and I made an effort to note down as much as I could during the month long fog I found myself in. One of them is going to be my novel for NaNoWriMo, which is something I’m really looking forward to again. The other was going to be a short story, but just seems to want to be a screenplay. I’ve never actually written one of them before so it’s going to be fun trying that one out. There are others but they are scattered fragments at the moment, and I’m not sure whether they’ll develop into anything just yet. On top of all that, there is the fact that I’m going to need to discover just what it’s going to take to have a career in writing.
Tomorrow Anna and I are going to spend the day relaxing, and have lunch somewhere nice in Edinburgh. Then on Monday, the real work begins.
