So there’s this thing I do now where at points, I cannot do anything — not work, read, anything — and instead just have to sit there watching the minutes tick by. Then there’s this totally separate thing – wait, I can tell you this one: on Thursdays I produce the AppleInsider podcast. That means I have a conversation for about an hour, and then immediately hear that whole hour’s conversation all over again.<\/p>\n
Usually at twice normal speed.<\/p>\n
And then there is this. It’s March. We’re two complete monthsS into 2024 and I don’t feel as if I’ve started the year yet, plus I definitely haven’t finished enough, and yet time is zooming by –<\/p>\n
Hang on, there’s another one. Maybe two weeks ago now, I was interviewed for BBC CWR about a thing. Just a fun couple of minutes, but unusually for me, it was a pre-record and I don’t know when the segment plays out. Since I appear to have an ego the size of something someone cleverer than me would’ve said now, I would like to hear it. Consequently every few days, I zoom through the BBC iPlayer recordings of the show and am prepared to be whisked back to when I recorded it. So far I never am, I haven’t heard myself, but I have had chance to hear a lot of great music. Also a really interesting thing about needles<\/a>.<\/p>\n I cannot finish the novel I’m writing. There. I’ve said it.<\/p>\n To date I have thrown away at least 80,000 words of it, sometimes because they are crap and it’s about time I was writing better, but otherwise because it’s so clearly constantly on my mind that I should be better at writing about time. You know how it is when a character does something in chapter 7 that changes what they did in chapter 1 and you think that’s fine, until you realise it makes a pigs’ ear of chapters 10 through 31. That’s the thing.<\/p>\n I need to stop thinking about time and instead think about time. There. Thanks: it helped talking to you about this. And I believe our 50-minute hour is up already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So there’s this thing I do now where at points, I cannot do anything — not work, read, anything — … Continue reading