I am Boring

It's five in the morning and I'm awake with a stonking headache. Been lying here thinking - god, what a boring person I have become. I think it's something to do with the fact that writing is so hard and takes such a long time that you end up getting horribly obsessive. And I have a bit of that tendency as it is. But I was just thinking to myself how I really am at the stage where someone will be passing round a spliff at a party saying "cool" things about World Peace and Indie Music and how we should all go and live on a desert island and make beads, and I will, likely as not, be regaling them with, "What do you think about books and the environment?" or "Give me your views on the issue of returns in the publishing industry?"

Argh. What have I become?

Of course I love all this stuff. And a lot of it is because of VL - presently my main job is to organise the Thursday Soapbox slot so I am always thinking about possible subjects and contributors. But really, this doesn't mean that I should let it pervade all aspects of my life! And aren't there rather bigger issues I should be thinking about? (And smaller ones too.) In fact, isn't there more to life than debates and issues surrounding books and writing? (I know, contentious thought. Don't answer that.)

So, from now on, I am going to make a conscious effort to change. And it's going to start right now.

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Shit, what am I going to talk about now?

Comments

[Poppy]

Oh. I don't think you're boring, but then I like talking about writing, so, um, I think it's fine if you do too. I suppose i have to engage with other things, mainly in order to make a living, which is probably quite healthy. But, yeah, writing takes SUCH a long time to do (at least when actually doing it, and not spending hours doing other stuff on the computer),it is a bit all-consuming. Have you got flesh and blood people to talk to about it all? I've only got one friend who's a writer, and she manages to hide from me for months at a time, even though she lives very close.
xx