Kicking yourself in the pants

Not an easy trick, kicking yourself in the pants. It either requires a high degree of flexibility or exceptionally long legs. In my case, it required the realization that I have been struggling to write anything of worth and meaning for over month. I haven't felt engaged in my writing, I've been distracted by the heat and my job, and the more I get distracted I feel, the more frustrated and depressed I get that I'm not writing, and then bam it's 7:30am and it's time to go to work. So yesterday after moaning to all my friends about how I can't seem to get any writing done, I sat down and just said to myself "okay Crispin, all you have to do is finish the dialogue on this one page." Cut to 8 minutes later and I'd written 3 pages without even thinking about it.

And just like that, I'm back in the groove. So if you don't mind, I have some writing to do.