Failing at blogging

Hello

It's Monday. Which means I have failed to write a blog yesterday which was my original goal with this blogging stuff. Every Sunday write one blog.

(A most glorious Christmas Market)

So that's a minor shame. On the other hand it doesn't really matter, does it? Since I'm yet another writer in the world, I too have set myself deadlines for stories to be written and not finished before the deadline. In the past I would beat myself up about this some bit but nowadays I am a lot more self assured and confident whether I meet the deadline or not. Sure, I don't plan on making this a habit and rest assured I will be back next Sunday with a new blog, but missing yesterday's blog to write today? Meh, OK, who cares?

I think sometimes writers get really hung up on self imposed deadlines and whether they reach the finish line on time or not. For m, it's not worth worrying about. I liken it to quitting smoking. I tried to quit a number of times and often failed but I never got too upset by failing. Just try again. If I lasted a week not smoking and then had a cigarette....hey at least I went one week without smoking! That can't be unhealthy anyway. Eventually it stuck and now I don't smoke.

I see it as the same with writing. If I have a deadline to write a screenplay by the end of the year and only get into Act 2 and run out of time. I can always just move the deadline another bit further along and now continue from Act 2 onwards Nobody has ever read a screenplay of mine and immediately given feedback of "Nice story, characters are kinda OK but how long did this take to write and that will determine how much I like reading it!"

So there are my musings on failure. I went to sleep last night thinking society needed to hear from me about it before continuing along. So you're welcome!

(A most glorious Christmas couple)

In other news:

My next genre is due on Thursday. It is for a MEDICAL DRAMA. I only have vague thoughts on the story right now, and Celine has really helped come up with some stuff to focus on in the story. It is a story about mental health and specifically Intrusive Thoughts. I find Intrusive Thoughts to be fascinating because it is something that many people suffer from but don't seem to be aware that this is a condition/disease that affects people. It's a real shame that someone who has these unwanted thoughts believes that they are the problem and are uniquely terrible compared to everyone else. Which of course is not true at all.

So my story is going to focus on this. Hopefully I do it justice.

In other news:

My podcast TYRANTS IN TRAINING has episode 2 now public. Episode 2 takes place on That Fking Island with three hosts of the podcast ThatFkingShow.

Episode 2 of Tyrants In Training can be found on

Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-wk8ay-114ea95

And Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2DP4kL1O7nmYL6gKqwRlbF?si=25043c32d257423c

And this is the late blog, thanks for reading. Now I drive to my day job to berate George for failing to write his initials on a form!!

Thanks for reading

Kevin