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April 07, 2005
How are the mighty fallen...
I voted for Jane Eyre in the Woman’s Hour watershed fiction as I considered it to be the book that catapulted me from reading children’s fiction to ‘grown up’ books. When I was nine Jane Eyre was my heroine and I probably could have written an acceptable essay on ‘rebellion and conformity in Jane Eyre.’ So why is it that twenty years later I have spent two days staring at a pile of notes and a blank screen barking at anyone who attempts to make contact with me? It is as if I can’t see the wood for the trees. I spent a whole hour last night obsessing over one sentence before giving up and watching Desperate Housewives.
And then there is that novel I wrote way back in November. As you are probably aware it needs some serious editing/rewriting, I promised myself as a New Year’s resolution that I would attack one chapter a week throughout 2005. On the 1st January I got half way through the Prologue and haven’t touched it since.
Yet of course now I have to write on ‘rebellion and conformity in Jane Eyre’ I am being bombarded by sudden inspiration for the novel. I have rewritten whole chapters in my head, I have come up with a name for the town and the estate where the main characters live, but I WILL NOT open that word file until I have got through this piece of work.
So I’ll struggle on to the end of this essay, hand in a load of waffling rubbish and on Monday I’ll sit down to edit the novel and it’ll all be gone.
Ask me about ‘rebellion and conformity in Jane Eyre’ on Monday however…. You’ll see..
Posted by purple elephant at April 7, 2005 09:34 AM