DISPLACEMENT OR HOW NOT TO GET ON WITH THE MANUSCRIPT



So, I’ve just finished one of the books on our reading list ”Driftnet” by Lin Anderson and thoroughly enjoyed it. A straightforward detective novel with lots of human interest. I noticed it was published by Luath Press, so instead of continuing work on my own manuscript I decided I had to find out what were all the other publishers in Edinburgh. Found a map of them – what a lot! Also maps of authors in Scotland – even more! Now I was on a horribly distracting website with interviews with people like Gavin Esler – no I hadn’t realised that he wrote novels as well as being a journalist either, Keith Gray etc. Ah, there’s a link to “Homecoming” – I fear that I have not made the most of the opportunities thrown up by this event so had a look – interesting article by Andrew O Hagan about Burns – is this displacement activity ever going to end? What are your displacement activities before getting down to work?

Must stop now and review my GOALS. I might even post them if they look impressive enough