A Little Bit Of Everything

Spent a good few hours writing yesterday, I'd forgotten how could it feels to lose yourself in your writing - ah bliss.  This morning I was looking for jobs and found a gem of one on line and very local to me.  After a mammoth battle with the printer and the router, I eventually managed to get all the info printed (with hubby's help of course).  So the plan for tonight is to complete the standard bits of the application and to work on the more personal parts tomorrow. 

Well of course that wont happen because Wednesday is my day in the shop!  So why didn't I do it this afternoon?  Because I took Lisa to her hospital appointment which lasted over 2 hours!! So  a new plan then?  Write, until I collect Cerys from her friends house, eat dinner, watch my twp favourite TV programs - then off to bed.  You see how time slips away from you.  Of course I could write on through the evening but I would also like to cuddle up with hubby in front of the TV for a while.  The application form will have to wait until tomorrow afternoon, and the writing?  Squeezed into the few hours between the school run and dinner.  There that's tomorrow all sorted!

They Seek Him Here...

Well, what to say?  As some of you may remember I was finding it hard to find the time to sit down and write due to extended family issues.  I don't like to discuss my personal issues on here so all I will say is that things are no longer as fraught as they were.  Time to write then?  Unfortunately not.  Hubby and I have decided that I should go out to work, its only fair.  In September Cerys will be going up to secondary school and although Hubby has doe a wonderful job in supporting us all for many years, I would really like to contribute.

Now, searching for a job is no easy feat - some of the websites are more complicated that those logic puzzles you used to see years ago on "The Krypton Factor" (for those who can remember it).  Why make it so difficult?  Still I'm not one to give up at the first hurdle and have already applied for a few jobs.  Although initially I was scared at losing my writing time on reflection I think it may give me a more structured routine.  Sometimes the more time you have the less you actually do with it, or maybe that's just me.

No news yet on any submissions or competition entries but I live in hope and have a new idea which is in such an early stage of its development, I won't share it with you yet.

I am counting down the days until Swanwick Writers Summer School in August and looking forward to seeing some well loved and familiar faces.  If you fancy it look it up on line, I'm sure there is still time to book yourself a place.

Things Not Going My Way

Everybody has to deal with issues which pop up in their private life and occasionally problems spill over into our working lives.  This is exactly what has been happening to me bat the moment.  My total word output for this week is 2,453 !! Not that great is it.  I am away from my desk tomorrow and next week is half term, doesn't seem that long since Easter.  I am feeling very sorry for myself at the moment and long for a few hours to myself, meaning no interruptions.  Fat Chance !!

I know it cannot be that difficult to find a balance as plenty of other people manage to juggle busier lives than me.  Tips anybody?

Mind Over Matter

Fresh from having the courage to send out a short story to TLFF Australia, I intended to sit down and address any half written stories and sketch out ideas which were demanding my attention.  But that's not what happened.  I caught sight of a competition requesting a memoir based around or in a garden.  And there it was, it formed in my head before I'd even finished reading the rules and reg's.  So far I have a 1,000 words.  For something I have only just discovered it is coming along very nicely and I'm enjoying being able to create imagery, in my opinion colourful imagery.  In the words of the cheeky Della Galton "Don't say green when you can say emerald" - very good advice.

I have a few errands to run this morning but the afternoon is clear - so memoir, here I come.

Button Pressed

I've done it.  I have pressed send - at last.  Now, I cannot believe I have done it and I still feel a little scared.  Time fora  cup of tea to calm myself.

Finger Poised

Some of you may remember I was in the process of sending a couple of stories out to a magazine in Australia.  Well, as we speak my finger is poised over the send button.  What's stopping me?  Fear. 

But fear of what?  I'm no stranger to rejection, so why this feel so different I have no idea.  After the school run this morning I sat down at my desk determined to put in a good few hours on my writing.  I checked the above mentioned stories (time out over the last few weeks has left me dithering) and discarded one, feeling it needed a little more work.  The second one is ready.  Spell checked, revised, edited and polished within an inch of it's life.  I have the email address and the guidelines all I need to do know is press 'SEND' - please wish me luck!!

Elsewhere in my brain ideas are forming for other short stories and are demanding my attention.  Perhaps I will sit down with the good old fashioned pen and paper and just write.

Where For Art Thou?

 It's seems so long since my last blog I hardly know where to start.  Obviously I haven't been around for a bit.  What with bank holidays, SATS, A Levels and extended family issues, I am all over the place.  I cannot remember when I last sat down at my desk and put in a good days work!  How I ever hope to attain publication or any form of success by doing zilch, is beyond me.  But that's just it isn't it?  Life gets in the way of what you really want to do.  Now lets not get carried away.  My life is a very happy one, if not a bit overfull at present.  Things will work themselves out, they always do.  Okay, little whine over.

On a more positive note, my absence from writing has niggled and niggled and I am more convinced than ever that it is what I was born to do.  Not in a boastful way but I've always wanted to write and always have - although my earlier attempts would have you doubled up with laughter.  I keep those hidden away.  I should throw them away really but I always  feel they could be revived at some stage. 

My goal for tomorrow is to sit down at my desk and not get up again until I am happy with my output - wish me luck.