The Weasel Has Landed.

Welcome to The Weasel's Words. 

Hi. I'm the Weasel, and I'm an expert at weaselling out of writing.

For a writer, it's the words that count, and this blog is all about word counts. I've set it up to shame myself into writing something every day. And every day, I plan to put my word count up on the blog. I won't be including the blog word count. The blog is a means to an end.....a 'the end' on the final page of a manuscript.

It's all too easy to put off writing. I found recently that (goaded by a friend) when I promised myself I would write 100 words a day, I would sit down to write those bare 100 words. Strangely enough, once the 100 words were down on paper, sometimes hundreds more followed. Sometimes even thousands. It seems I need to trick myself into writing, or maybe even shame myself into it.

This is the blog of the weasel.  This is me at 11.40 p.m. last night. Just look at those eyes. Alert, watchful..ah.. glazed. I'd sneaked out of bed to put my micro play on the page. The words...the words... they just wouldn't let me alone. Had to wait until the warm body beside me was snoring softly before I made my move. It took less than an hour (I said it was a micro play) before it was on the computer with notes for a second on the page below it. In the daylight hours I tidied it up a little and shot it off to Di Abolic before I could think about it. Now I'm just waiting to hear what she says.

Word count for 18th and 19th June: a grand total of 688 words for the micro play.