Back to Work!

I have run out of excuses for not getting down to work on the book I was writing before I fell down stairs in a cinema, ruptured both my achilles tendons and consequently spent four and a half months recuperating in a clinic in Bordeaux. While I was there, I kept the writing muscle exercised (just) with Tales from the Clinic. Now I’m back home and at my desk, I must finish my fifth novel.
I need to get back into a routine – to sit down at my desk before 7am, to disable the Internet with a brilliant app called Freedom (one of the best £5 I’ve ever spent) and to start again where I left off.
I stare at the notice I keep on my desk: “Thinking is not writing. Planning is not writing. Only writing is writing.” But I keep finding ways to delay writing.
I re-read P J O’Rourke on the things writers do to avoid writing (see my post Getting Started).
I re-read George Orwell on good writing.
I read tips on how to stop procrastinating - “Break your work into little steps”; “change your environment”; “create a timetable”; “if it takes less than two minutes, do it now.”
I resolve to follow all these rules.
I resolve to start tomorrow.