Right, we have had 3 months of 2014, and a good deal has happened one way or another, but I could not be said to have written very much. I have been incubating GATD, and learning a certain amount, but now I think the planets are aligned. On Tuesday I ran into PC Keith in the street - one of the people I wanted to talk to for research - and today Sheree sent me details of her probation officer friend, who is willing to chat to me. So it's all set for a bit of decent research and talking the idea through...
I have commitments - the setting up of a webzine with the gang, and the Easter hols and the return of Ned, the necessity of dealing with my father and so on. But I also have to start writing again soon, not just submission letters! I have written about 5,000 words of GATD and am clear where it's going - the first half of it, but I'm not sure how it will develop - and I think talking to Keith and Donna and anyone else I can persuade will probably start some ideas out of their holes. I am also going to do some wide on-line reading about people trafficking.
I have commitments - the setting up of a webzine with the gang, and the Easter hols and the return of Ned, the necessity of dealing with my father and so on. But I also have to start writing again soon, not just submission letters! I have written about 5,000 words of GATD and am clear where it's going - the first half of it, but I'm not sure how it will develop - and I think talking to Keith and Donna and anyone else I can persuade will probably start some ideas out of their holes. I am also going to do some wide on-line reading about people trafficking.
Do persevere. I was 'nearly there' for years then it clicked in 2007. Since then I've had 21 books accepted/published!
ReplyDeleteThank - 21 in the last 7 years - were some of those books you had written previously, or have you written 3 a year since then? Very impressive in either case.
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