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8.00 monday morning.It’s raining. Hard. I have an article to write which has been commissioned and a novel which has not. My thoughts about the novel go something like this: It’s not working. There’s no point. No one will publish it anyway. If it is published no one will read it…
My thoughts about the article: Why on earth did I say I’d write it? Why did I agree to that deadline? Why did I think I had something to say…