I am working on my final assignment. My tutor has given me a generous extension, for which I am grateful because it's not coming easily. I almost feel like I am afraid to take the final step towards finishing and the dreaded assessment.
But could that be it? Surely I want to get this done? I have my idea for the anthology of my stories and how they fit together; not in a coherent, structured way in the sense that they tell a single beaded story but rather they explore my feelings on loss, bereavement and how characters cope with their own particular losses. Essentially, how they triumph, pick themselves up from the floor, or get up from their knees and lift their chins ready for the all important first step...
I always come here before starting to crash on with "getting on with it". It's a warm up. It's also a place to exorcise my ghosts, think openly about my process and to explore in words....thinking on the page.
So today I am avoiding the pile of ironing, the dusting and the usual displacement activities.
