Thursday, December 3, 2009

Notebook Addiction.

Well, I have a serious problem that all started when I made it up in my mind to become a writer. I have an addiction to buying notebooks of all shapes, colors and sizes (no actually that is a lie, I actually have a very strict criteria when it comes to purchasing paper products) and then never writing in them.

Silly as it sounds I draw inspiration from seeing an empty notebook just waiting to be filled with words. Only problem is, I want to wait until I have the perfect thing to write in them before I even attempt to fill them with anything. If on the first blank page of a notebook, I write something that is not glorious enough for my tastes, that notebook will almost definitely never be written in again. Currently I have 42 notebooks all together. Only 20 of them actually have stuff written in them, and only four of those 22 contain more than a few sentences.

So! To rectify the situation I have made a pact with myself. Post National Novel Writing Month's tax on my mental state and my sleep, I will fill one notebook a month without purchasing another until I do not have such a ridiculously high number of empty notebooks. Will I stick to this goal? Probably not, but I will try it nonetheless. Like most projects I start out full of steam, only to fizzle out in a few short days. However, Nanowrimo has definitely taught me a thing or two about perseverance so I shall fight the good fight.

In other words....I'm baaaaaaack.
Cheers