Writers Abroad Magazine Issue 3 September 2015 | Page 16

WRITERS ABROAD MAGAZINE
You shake your head.
Ahead and slightly to the right is a small island. It looks familiar though why you are
not quite sure. In a flash, you realise you’ve been there before and a smile lights up
your face.
As you approach you realise it is Novel Island.
As you haul yourself up the beach in this familiar place you understand that this is
where you belong.
The reality that you are an average swimmer who will most likely never reach the
finishing post with any great acclaim, sits comfortably on your wet shoulders.
Comfort sings in your veins.
Perhaps it is the chaotic life I am leading right now that has prompted this metaphor
and burst of self-reflection. Whatever it is though, I am becoming more aware of the
number of distractions that take me away from the very process of writing itself.
I would ask your thoughts on how truly beneficial the many diversions such as
Facebook, Blogs or Twitter are? WA

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