Time is running away again. The to-do list is growing, I seem to add several things every week but feel happy if I can cross just one item off. And now it's half term again. Where did those six weeks go?
Last week the doom and gloom of the economic crisis, both national and personal,was temporarily lifted by the rescue of the 33 miners who'd been trapped underground in Chile for 69 days. I shed tears at each and every emergence I watched on the news channel. Thinking I was stupid and, it has to be said, hormonal, I turned to Twitter where I found many others were doing the same. It was a triumph of hope over adversity, caught for posterity in pitch perfect media coverage.
I'm not writing much right now. But I am researching, looking at photos and reading about some pivotal movements in twentieth century history, trying to integrate hope and despair into the new novel. The coverage of the miners brought home both emotions in such an immediate and visual manner that I felt inspired.
And now back to work, it's going to be hard enough to snatch time to write during the next two weeks of school holiday...
2 comments:
Two weeks of school holiday?! I'm glad to see Amy has one week off and of course I will get no writing done apart from on the blog!
CJ xx
We only have a four week summer holiday, so it all evens out in the end! Autistic kids find six weeks too long, don't they?
Cx
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