What it says in the title: I’m still jobless, but these past couple of months I’ve really been focusing on writing my book. It’s, of course, about Edith, and I aim to have finished a draft by the end of January because I’ve got a couple of people waiting to read it. Not publishers or anything but fellow writers.

I’ve almost given up on the job front, but I’m going to try to begin anew with vigour. A quote about hope:

“I’m going to hope […] I’m going to live in those enormous moments when the whole of life seems bound up in the absolute necessity to win.”

A friend pointed out that it isn’t necessarily a good idea to always think of winning as an ‘absolute necessity’ but I think the sentiment in general could help you power through tough stuff. The one thing we can always do is hope.

I’m going to try and write regular updates on how the writing is going. Currently I’m at 44,000 words (103 microsoft word pages), quite pleased with myself. Not aiming for a set number of words, more wrting it as content comes to me and I estimate that the final piece will come in January.

Reading: Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man (biography by Claire Tomalin)

Favourite Track: As It Was – Harry Styles

T.H.E