Computer explorer

I am one of those sad people who find romance in computer glitches. All my writing time today was diverted into exploring the hidden entrails of my computer files -- a romantic journey indeed through mysterious and previously unknown folders.

My free AVG antivirus software is sadly off colour and has been for a couple of days now. The happy red green and yellow logo is now a gloomy black and grey square hunched on my taskbar. I would do anything to cheer it up.

I visited the AVG website and downloaded the priority updates available. But the little square was still inconsolable. Its alt message tells me crossly it will update itself tomorrow. But I know better. It has been saying that for days.

I have now juggled some files around, copied and pasted file folders into various places in the hope that too much is better than too little. I suspect I may be mistaken, having crashed catastrophically earlier today.

Still procrastinating

Certainly in the mood to stand and stare at the moment --fascinated by the gauzy clouds lacing the unexpectedly blue sky. Anything to take my mind off the fact that my printer is playing up again, making life very difficult indeed when it comes to producing student handouts.

Diverse notes

Having spent ages failing to find the pushbutton to ease my photoblogging, I have had to give up and start writing. Procrastination is the keyword I need to eradicate from my vocabulary. But years of bad habits stack up against me.

So far today, I have been to the dentist (that smacks of desperation), gone book shopping ( a treat for my past birthday), looked wistfully round the sales, and eaten and eaten and eaten to avoid putting fingers to keyboard.

I have patiently persevered through AOL cutting off my dial up connections in order to read every email in my box --all of it pretty irrelevant to life --and have just remembered some outside chores I should be getting on with.

Romantic journeys through today include investigating Feng Shui (OK I'm well behind the trend), succeeding in attaching photos to my blogging and starting to read the Jane Austen Book Club...mf.....

Romantic journeys

Romantic journeys will detail thoughts and learning curves of an aspiring writer determined to produce at least one completed contemporary romance in 2005.

It will also record all writing done in the year, whether factual articles or fiction, and efforts to boost income from sales. Writing courses are burgeoning all over the net, classes are held in Adult Education centres everywhere.

Can we all find success as writers? And if not, why not?