Blogging for Accountability

I have been bad.

Yes, it’s true, for one reason or another (possibly and another), I haven’t done any ‘proper’ writing for weeks. Okay, I do have some excuses:

• The entire family was horribly sick with various colds for at least the last 6 weeks
• Mr D has been on his Easter holidays
• We had extended family visiting
• W’ve been sorting out our disaster of a house so that Steph’s parents could visit
• And I’ve had a freelance project with a tight deadline.

So, yes, I’ve been copping out on the personal writing thing. And, once you do miss a few weeks, it can be hard to force yourself back into the right headspace.

Anyway, the point is that the only way I’m going to force myself back into doing this is by blogging myself into accountability.

So, that’s what I’m going to do. Every day I’m going to blog about what I’m going to do. Then I’ll have to do it, right?

Today’s work is notebook work: going through the outlines of ideas I’ve got jotted down and choosing something to develop further.

And, to stop this blog being utterly boring, here’s today’s random interesting links:

Neanderthals were not less intelligent than modern humans, scientists find – From The Guardian

Prehistoric North Sea ‘Atlantis’ hit by 5m tsunami – From BBC News (This is talking about ‘Doggerland’, where the North Sea now is).

If you’re interested in Doggerland, by the way, Stephen Baxter’s Northland novels are a fantastic alternate-history exploration of the era

And finally, listen to a free podcast of Stephanie Burgis’s awesome short story, Foxwoman, over at Toasted Cake podcast.

The header image on this post is Susan Lueck, and is used under a Creative Commons 2.0 License.