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Penny Dolan posted about procrastination a few days ago. This is not quite an apologia for procrastination, but more a plea to be easy on yourself if you're not doing enough. I've not been writing full time (as in, 35 hours a week) since before the pandemic. A string of deaths and other disasters/disrupters, plus turmoil in the publishing industry, have made it pretty much impossible.
I thought I'd get back to it this autumn, but I'm honestly not sure I even want to. Publishing is still turmoily, AI is wreaking havoc, and the three book projects I have in prospect are, as often happens, waiting on design decisions. They will then turn into a panicked rush to get samples together in time for the Frankfurt Book Fair in October (which is not very far away).
While waiting for publishers to get their act together, I've returned to a book I started before the pandemic and then had to give up as it was based on material in the British Library which was inaccessible . It's fun poking around at it, though I'm still not sure what shape it will eventually take, if any. I've also decided to learn some new skills, nothing to do with writing. And although this looks like 'doing nothing', it's already throwing up new ideas. Even the doing nothing that is gardening or walking around the fields looking for sloes lets some slow mental composting go on, and that all feeds into work when work happens. At least, that's what I'm telling myself...
Out now: Weird and Wonderful Dinosaur Facts, illustrated by Ro Ledesma, Arcurus 2025
1 comment:
Good luck with your new directions, Anne!
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