productive procrastination – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:27:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg productive procrastination – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 Writing Week: Day Nine https://shepline.com/2010/04/06/writing-week-day-nine/ https://shepline.com/2010/04/06/writing-week-day-nine/#respond Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:27:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/writing-week-day-nine/ To be fair I never actually got round to sitting down to write today. Starting off the day, I headed out on a nice drive through the Oxfordshire countryside, going through Ayhno and Adderbury in search of hard wax oil, and then cross-country to Brackley to stock up on a bit of shopping. From there I headed over to Wyvale to take them up for 4 bags for £12 on multipurpose compost and a couple of rolls of turf and some grass seed. Have you any idea how heavy the trolley was with all that on it, and how difficult it was to stear round the shop and car park?!!

I got home and unpacked and was about to have a late lunch when Emma arrived home after a half day, tired and weary and suffering a bit from her depression. So whilst she had a sleep I set about my sunny springtime jobs of oiling the door to the garage, laying the new turf in the bunny run, putting in the log edging to the shady garden a the end and preparing the lawn and sowing a top up mixture of rye grass.

This evening I am very, very tired, but in a productive, nice way similar to that feeling that I get on conservation holidays. I have enjoyed a nice spaghetti carbonara, watched the excellent Delicious Miss Dahl, and the weirdly fantastic Heston’s Feasts, and subbed my novel, The End of All Worlds to two more agents, after yesterday’s one gave a swift ‘No’ today to yesterday’s submission.

]]> https://shepline.com/2010/04/06/writing-week-day-nine/feed/ 0 Writing Week: Day Three https://shepline.com/2010/03/31/writing-week-day-three/ https://shepline.com/2010/03/31/writing-week-day-three/#respond Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:35:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/writing-week-day-three/ A little more procrastination, a little more productivity! Day Three of my writing week started off in a very similar way as previous days, with a bit of shelf-oiling before I headed back to the garage to sort boxes. It went well. Aside from four last remaining boxes of miscellaneous kitchen things which are still left to go through the garage is looking almost habital, and the most like a ‘room’ of the house that is has ever looked.

This afternoon I got down to chapter twelve. I did get lured in a procrastionary-type way back to the garage to sort out a few more things and to put up a new shelf in the downstairs toilet. But then I was back to my desk, with my trusty fountain pen and my leather bound book, surrounded by my books, and I wrote – to a soundtrack of Nouvelle Vague brilliant covers – and another two pages are down, and Kathryn is going for a meal and a drink with Louis…

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