Several things have happened.
Firstly, an enlightened agent has asked for a full read of the book formerly known as The Malice of Fairies
He is still reading it, I will not worry about it until October.
Secondly, I decided not to go to "The Festival of Writing" because the actual cost was £490 plus train fares and taxis and was just too much. Also my gut was telling me not to go, and the fact that an agent was having a full read was enough to console me.
Thirdly, I decided that even if the agent turned down the book, I would not self-publish in the autumn. This came about in a conversation with Tara, she said "your heart's not in it" and this is true, it's always been a sort of desperate measure... something I felt I must do to earn some money and justify my existence.
The upshot of these three things is that I have, miraculously, felt I can write again, that it's worthwhile. I started to look at all my notes on the triple story book (working title The Devil's Chapel) which I started thinking about and researching and writing after my trip to Barfrestone Church at Easter. I was delighted to find I had the beginnings of a good structure and some nice ideas about what women have wanted throughout the ages. I'm excited. I hope I can do it justice, marry it together and make it moving..
Firstly, an enlightened agent has asked for a full read of the book formerly known as The Malice of Fairies
He is still reading it, I will not worry about it until October.
Secondly, I decided not to go to "The Festival of Writing" because the actual cost was £490 plus train fares and taxis and was just too much. Also my gut was telling me not to go, and the fact that an agent was having a full read was enough to console me.
Thirdly, I decided that even if the agent turned down the book, I would not self-publish in the autumn. This came about in a conversation with Tara, she said "your heart's not in it" and this is true, it's always been a sort of desperate measure... something I felt I must do to earn some money and justify my existence.
The upshot of these three things is that I have, miraculously, felt I can write again, that it's worthwhile. I started to look at all my notes on the triple story book (working title The Devil's Chapel) which I started thinking about and researching and writing after my trip to Barfrestone Church at Easter. I was delighted to find I had the beginnings of a good structure and some nice ideas about what women have wanted throughout the ages. I'm excited. I hope I can do it justice, marry it together and make it moving..
I intend to base the carvings on those at Barfrestone, but not to use them literally. I don't want to get stuck, my ideas about continuing Woden worship are a little weird, but not impossible. So I want to extrapolate from that.
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