{"id":2258,"date":"2020-04-03T07:03:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T07:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2020-04-03T08:51:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T08:51:01","slug":"i-pulled-my-finger-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2020\/04\/03\/i-pulled-my-finger-out\/","title":{"rendered":"I pulled my finger out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week’s Self Distract was like a whine tasting. I won’t delete it because it is true<\/a>, it is how I felt about my poor writing then and quite often, but it also ended with a call to action that I actually did. It told me to pull my finger out and do some writing.<\/p>\n

I did some writing. About four pages of script. Four pages in a week is not going to impress you, and nor is the fact that I still wasn’t doing it until I got prodded into it by a writing buddy. <\/p>\n

But, still, I wrote it and it is completely true that there is nothing I like more than being in script, writing in that form, thinking in that form. It’s my favourite form of writing, I like it even when it’s hard, and still I don’t do it enough. I can explain that now, though: I’m a writer, what can you do? <\/p>\n

Only, I can’t help thinking about how I did pull my finger out, yet I may also have stuck it in my ear. These are the strangest of days, the unhappiest of days, and yet so far I am in a position where I can choose to worry about whether or not I’m writing something. I don’t, as yet, need to be scared about my income, and I’m a freelancer, so there have been times when I have had to, when I know what that is truly like.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure I’ve ever done this before, but I want to send you to another blog<\/a>, please. While I’ve been mostly in my own head all week, Lisa Holdsworth has been actually making a difference for freelance writers. She’s Chair of the Writers’ Guild \u2013\u2013 I’m Deputy Chair and proud to work with her \u2013\u2013 and separately runs a blog about writing. It’s now got the most seductively enraged piece which takes you from calm to raging with her about what we need to do.<\/p>\n

I’ve long wanted to write like Lisa, sometimes I now just want to be her, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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