February 25, 2012

• Chore Writing

  I am trying to jump-start myself writing this morning. Not on here, oh, no! Writing a blog is recreation, entertainment, amusement. No, I am talking about trying to get myself motivated to write my weekly column that is really more of an exercise in copying. I write a 1,200 word archive column for our local paper, which in turn can be tedious or fun. I pull births, obits, major news bits and anything that I find entertaining out of issues as far back as 130 years ago.

  Of course, my warm-up act was to look up quotes from famous people about their own writing blocks. I will allow myself one gratuitous quote, then I will start clicking away on the keyboard, doing what I am supposed to be doing. A quote from one of my most favourite (I'll use the English spelling since she is) authors.

  "Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well."

  Agatha Christie

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