Hello again.
I have managed to write the first page of chapter 10, after mindlessly staring at my notes for a good hour. What good a bit of self-forcing can do. To be honest, starting chapters are always my problem. It's always much harder to start a chapter - I think it's always like starting a story, you always have a hard time thinking about how you are to start it. But once you get into it, the story and words roll out like toilet paper.
Unfortunely I'm in one of these moods where I can only do a little...kind of like being stuffed from a late night meal and not being able to stomach a full breakfast. I know this is a way of my body telling me to chill. I have also been told by my parents not to over-do it. It was only a few weeks ago that after forcing myself to write that day despite feeling exhausted, I ended up feeling very low, tired, fatugued and strangely, I lost interest in the one thing that always manages to lift my moods...music. It was then that my dad demanded that I take two days off a week from writing. As he says, "its easy to disturb the brain, but its difficult to get it back to normal".
He should not worry today. The England vs Germany match is this afternoon and I cannot miss it. To make it better, my brother and sister-in-law have invited us down to their barbeccue. I've got to say, Smokey chicken and Football (and perhaps an alcho-pop, as I don't like beer) is always a brilliant combination :)
I have another busy week ahead of me. I've promised myself that I would finish chapter 10 and possibly chapter 11 AND I've got an application form to expect through the post for a hospital position, which I really want to get. So, if all goes well, I will have over half of the novel completed and the guys at Red Cross will be pleased with what Ive written :)
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