This week marks the first birthday of my blog. I remember how difficult I found it to write my first blog entries and when I revisit them it's like watching my childhood self during a visit to my grandparents: being careful with my Ps and Qs, asking permission to leave the dinner table, sitting with my knees together and no - definitely no! - licking of my plate. Oh dear. A sudden memory returns of Grandad's pancakes with homemade raspberry vinegar. I well remember my sisters and I gleefully licking our plates clean, gorging on the view of each other's flattened tongues through the transparent pyrex plates. Well, hurrah for plate licking and double hurrah for learning the fine art of blogging. The rules seem to be the same: chillax!
On this irreverent note, I'd like to direct all aspiring writers with utmost urgency to this Youtube video of the Imaginary Writing Process, which I discovered courtesy of Liz Kessler posting a link on Facebook. (Liz, by the way, has one of the most superb writer websites I have ever seen.) The video made me laugh a lot and I loved the image of writer and agent skipping and dancing towards a publisher's office. Cycling to work this week, I remembered the video and laughed out loud once again as I steered my way through Islington streets. I now insist that if Jenny, my agent, and I ever get to the stage of presenting my current manuscript to publishers we dance the good dance, hand moves and everything. I'll be practising!
Jenny and I met on Tuesday to discuss my next draft of the current Work In Progess. I did my usual: mumbling incoherently, allowing Jenny to reassure me and steer me until I finally hit upon an idea that could work. I am going to deliver a new draft in April so I will definitely need this blog to keep me going. Nothing like reporting to others to inspire self-discipline!
This latest draft seems to coincide with a strong creative urge that has led to... Well, can you guess from the photos? I find my evenings of crafting the perfect balance after a day's concentrated editing in the office. Both need patience and concentration, but make quite different demands on my time and mind.
Finally, and most importantly. Please do come back to my blog at the weekend to see the third of my Author Interviews. We will have a very special guest ... Anne Cassidy, author of the recently published 'Guilt Trip' and 'Looking For JJ'. I'm excited. Are you?
On this irreverent note, I'd like to direct all aspiring writers with utmost urgency to this Youtube video of the Imaginary Writing Process, which I discovered courtesy of Liz Kessler posting a link on Facebook. (Liz, by the way, has one of the most superb writer websites I have ever seen.) The video made me laugh a lot and I loved the image of writer and agent skipping and dancing towards a publisher's office. Cycling to work this week, I remembered the video and laughed out loud once again as I steered my way through Islington streets. I now insist that if Jenny, my agent, and I ever get to the stage of presenting my current manuscript to publishers we dance the good dance, hand moves and everything. I'll be practising!
Jenny and I met on Tuesday to discuss my next draft of the current Work In Progess. I did my usual: mumbling incoherently, allowing Jenny to reassure me and steer me until I finally hit upon an idea that could work. I am going to deliver a new draft in April so I will definitely need this blog to keep me going. Nothing like reporting to others to inspire self-discipline!
This latest draft seems to coincide with a strong creative urge that has led to... Well, can you guess from the photos? I find my evenings of crafting the perfect balance after a day's concentrated editing in the office. Both need patience and concentration, but make quite different demands on my time and mind.
Latest knitting project - another scarf. A writer can never have too many scarves.
Pressing the latest sewing project.
A dress pattern, Rooibos, courtesy of Colette Patterns.
Finally, and most importantly. Please do come back to my blog at the weekend to see the third of my Author Interviews. We will have a very special guest ... Anne Cassidy, author of the recently published 'Guilt Trip' and 'Looking For JJ'. I'm excited. Are you?
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