Blogagaard Actually Sits Down And Works on Novel

Tonight I sat down and worked on The Cobalt Legacy for three hours. It's been a month since I settled down long enough to really write anything but a blog, and even this last month of blogging hasn't been my best. I tell people I don't believe in writer's block, and I don't. But I do believe in being lazy, and I do believe in freaking out when you sit down and open a 200-plus word document, the only thought in your mind "This is crap!" while so many easier things are sitting around your apartment, just calling for you to waste time and get distracted. Let's say a guitar, or whiskey, or season 5 of The Sopranos.

When I was in long term relationships I used to think it would free up so much time to write if I was single and didn't have to do all this couple shit like going on dates, talking, etc. Yet I now realize that sort of helped me focus since I only had this block of two hours when she'd be out of the apartment and if I didn't write then I probably wouldn't get it done later. I also thought going part time at my job would help me out. So far, I've mastered computer football and taken the art of the afternoon nap to new levels. Yet, going part time has allowed me to spend less time in the negative vibe world of the modern workplace and that's made me much happier overall, and has allowed me to hang out with my friends more than I used to. Also, I go to coffee shops now, something I never used to do. And coffee now helps prevent bad livers!

Steven Pressfield has a slim book out called the War of Art that I recommend for any artist procrastinators out there, of all types. He talks about the difficulty of constantly creating every day and calls the difficulty Resistance and offers advice on how to deal with and generally encourages the fuck out of you.

I'm simply glad that I've figured out how I'm going to rewrite this fourth draft of The Cobalt Legacy and that I've started again. Every day there's this intense pressure to write that hounds me and now that I've started again I feel like a sick man whose fever has finally broke. To quote Eminem: "Back to the lab again..."