Authors Electric

 With hindsight, I’m not entirely sure why I signed up to the ‘Scriptly Writing’ challenge, run by an organisation called The Literal Challenge: https://www.theliteralchallenge.com/ . They also run other writing challenges, such as February’s ‘28 plays later’, in case others are interested in torturing themselves. There was something tempting about the fact that it was due to begin on the day after I retired from my day job. I suppose I had a feeling that I might need a project to fill the gap – apart from all the million and one other things I have to do, that is! There’s no doubt that taking part in this gave a kind of structure to my days which would otherwise have been completely missing once I stopped working as a database manager. It’s only now, in the weeks since Scriptly Writing finished, that I’ve had the time and head space to consider what I want to do with myself from now on, although maybe putting off contemplating the emptiness for a while was a good thing in itself....