Elevate my thinking
I have no idea what awards everyone's talking about, but that was a brilliant piece of writing.
And so true.
Advertise, Karen?
But I'm delighted with the beautiful, intelligent and wonderful readers I already have.
Besides which, I don't do this for the awards. I do it because the voices in my head tell me to do it. Isn't that a good a reason as any?
Well, at least you won the Troubled Diva "best written" category. If there had been one...
i've spent the past 2 hours avoiding work and reading blogs like yours cos of the guardian comp and links. you didn't win but i've visited it as a consequence and i really like this thing of yours. yeah i thought the idea of the competition sucked and it got worse by introducing the categories. if there's room for the under 18's then surely there should be a section dedicated to desperate men over 30 ?
Ever read Aubade by P.Larkin? You probably have but if not find it on the web, have a little think about death and then get back to work.
I don't know who entered the competition and who didn't, of course, but nobody whom I think should have got the Best Writing award was even mentioned (and that means you, Londonmark from Camden - amongst various others). I believe the full critical appraisal would be that "it's all bollox".
(Use of the word "bollox" being why I wasn't considered for the Best Writing category either. Oh, that and the fact I didn't enter).
Londonmark woz robbed.
Perhaps it's because you've both been writing for more than three months. But who cares? It's just another popularity contest, and you clearly need to advertise more.
Gert, I have comments, I'm occasionally salacious and I'm making 90% of it up. I'm not sure those were the judging criteria.
Excellent writing, but, obviously, you've made three mistakes
a) You have comments
b) It isn't salacious
c) You don't make it up
A beautiful - and immensely true - piece of writing.
I guess the only difference I experience when I can't sleep is that my thoughts go to some weird plain of otherness entirely - mainly because those "thoughts that you would otherwise relegate to the back of your mind" unfortunately tend to be how my thought processes run as a matter of course.
Oh, and what Mike said.
This is all good stuff and a regular occurence for me.
The usual nail in the coffin for finally drifting of to sleep is the sudden realisation of something really important.
That's the proverbial spanner and a guarantee of a continuation of the night of purgatory
The worst bit comes when you actually do start to fall asleep for a couple of seconds, then get so excited about it that you snap awake again.
Just... makes me... want... to curl up and go to sleep at my desk.
Will there be tea this afternoon? I might wake up for that.
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