We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing.

"Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."

Frank Tibolt (1897-1989) writer, motivator and success trainer.

Hmmmmm, at this precise moment, my brain feels completely empty, drained, blank.

'This is what I'd like to do today,' my brain is telling me.

Instead, I am going to make it work. I have an advertising copy job to do. Due in by tomorrow morning.

I was only given the brief late on Wednesday...but PLENTY of time, eh? That's if I hadn't been writing 'The Screenplay' until 01.37 a.m. on Friday morning, been completely wiped out and dealing with Alfie's injured hoof all day Friday, and coaching up in London all day Saturday - in at 12.30 a.m...

So I'm going to do it today.

I'm hoping against hope that Frank Tibolt is right.

That action DOES generate inspiration.

Otherwise it's going to be a long day.

And night.

Again.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them;

"...a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes."

An Austrian journalist called Karl Kraus created this definition. (He's allowed to be disparaging about his own kind.)

I had a wonderful day yesterday - and no time to tell you about it today - not for the moment.


As punishment for enjoying myself too much - today I've got to work like three people stuck together. Other people's tight deadlines become mine. 

A piece for these guys to be completed last week sometime.

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And a 20 page brochure for these guys to be completed yesterday at the latest.

Jobs are like buses...you wait for ages and then two show up at once. 

 See ya later! I'm wanting to prove Karl Kraus at least partially right...