A seismologist's life ...

A thousand words : easy!

Why is it that non-work-related writing is so much easier to thrash out than work-related writing?

I have spent 5 hours today trying to get my paper moving in the right direction. It's like pulling a 20 car train using a toy steam engine, and uphill to boot. I keep slogging away at it, hoping that at some point it will pick up some momentum and start rolling of its own accord...

When my brain was empty and tired from all that serious stuff, I had a play here on writing.com. I thought I'd try out a writing assignment, just for a laugh. What do you say, 1000 words in less than an hour ! I wonder what the lesson is here: maybe I should just attack my paper as if it was for fun instead of for work... hmm... maybe there is something in this insight... we'll see.