How often do you change your desktop background? I seem to have changed it at least three times in the last week. It makes a change from constantly checking my emails, Twitter and frankly anything else that comes to mind while battling away with my second draft. I'm now up to chapter 24 and I'm sure I've been working on it for seventy five years. I have to keep reminding myself that chapter 16 took several years too and that feels ages ago now, so there is some hope that I'll eventually crawl to the end of this supposedly rather exciting section in which my characters get to, er, know each other better. Obviously not feeling very inspired. Or, actually, what's really happening (again) is losing faith in my characters. And the novel. And myself, mostly. I can't decide whether to struggle on or just dump it and go and do weeks and weeks of dull editing and formatting in order to get my short story collection out into paperback. Considering that I've sold exactly one book all year (yes, I am the most unsuccessful writer of all time) I don't feel particularly inspired to Get My Career Moving either. It's easier to hide in the depths of a failed novel than to Try And Get Some Sales.
This is the desktop I eventually ended up with:
This is the desktop I eventually ended up with:
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