Not giving up

The last couple of weeks have been pretty hard for me, I had some pretty shitty things going on, not that they need to be mentioned, but the effect they had, was that my work and personal life was beginning to suffer. I haven't written a thing for either of my modules and my filming has been put on hold, mostly because I can't get hold of the people I need to film. I'm starting to panic ever so slightly. I have two films to film and edit in 5 weeks and 12,000 words to write in 8. But, panic I shall not, because nothing is impossible. I went to the New Forest, and although I enjoyed every second and gathered lots of material for my work, I still found myself too distracted to do anything (partly due to the arguement I had with my sister the night before going) and so came back early in the hope to catch up on some work.

Instead I listened to Bob Marley and lost myself in the world of internet, and searched for things I could do in Australia. I then found a car on Autotrader that I plan to see next week and hopefully buy if it's any good, a nice little black Golf GTI. Oh, and I made a quiche.

So, looking like i'd hugged the pillsbury dough boy, I sat at my computer and shuffled through my research papers, and what I found was: although I haven't actually written anything for two of my modules yet, what I do have is a vast amount of research and i'm now ready to put pen to paper. When I thought I was getting nowhere and achieving nothing with my writing, I realised that the whole time, I was doing work. I had read books, spoken to people who know more about wild horses than me and had been to the New Forest to see them for myself. And now I have decided not to give up, and instead, to sit at my computer until I write 500 words, for those first words are the hardest. As I write this, Bob Marley's, Three little birds starts to play... How ironic.

Plan for this week:

• Film something for either Energy or Biodiversity.
• Log and capture anything I have.
• Write some of my 'Wild Ponies' project.
• Start to pull together Energy film.