Annette V Hart's Blog: The ramblings of Annette Hart, page 4

Getting in the spirit...

As well as listening to speeches and music from the war, watching films and pouring over photographs, I've now given myself an authentic haircut. Fed-up with my longer hair in some muggy weather, I suddenly decided to cut it off in a D.I.Y. 'bob'!

A day at the races...

Just returned from a lovely day out on Epsom Downs for the Derby. Picked a few winners - and 'also ran's - so came back with the money I left with (success!) and sunburn. How is it that I'm the only one who did? We had fun people watching, although I don't know if my sister enjoyed it quite as much on the hill with us rabble than in the Queen's Stand where she normally goes! Hope she joins us again next year...

Picking up the pace...

Finally getting back into a writing routine and, more importantly, I am getting flashes of inspiration again. It's a buzz when those ideas seep, or flood, into my brain!

Fantasy man...

I'm getting writing again and am finding it helps to keep in mind one of my lead characters - a handsome, young RN officer!

So want to get it done... I'm losing the pleasure in writing!

I so want to get my WW2 story finished (it seems the right time for it) that I have lost the pleasure in actually writing it. And, therefore, it's not getting done.

It took my husband to point this out!

So, I'm trying to relax about my writing, busy doing other things (like re-writing my lost story!), writing just for me, and the enjoyment is coming back.

Tweeting excitement...

I got very excited today when I realised that the bird perched on our castle treehouse was a sparrowhawk. I ignored the fact that it probably wanted to eat the sparrows at my bird table!

A disaster...

I faced a disaster this week. I needed to check a detail I had put in a story I had started but not finished... but could not find the manuscript! I have looked through every piece of paper, every nook and cranny twice and still can't find it. Even worse, I had started typing it up onto computer but only got to page 11! I now have to face rewriting it completely while knowing I had some good scenes in there.

My only, feint, hope is that I took it to my mum's to work on and left it there - but I can't check until she gets home from New Zealand!

The thought of all that work done for nothing...

Reworking an 'old friend'...

I haven't written at all over Christmas, and a couple of weeks before, and have lost the thread/oomph for my new story. I needed to get back into the writing habit before starting work on it again so I decided to read through, adding and changing as I go, an older story. It's actually another of my Athlandia series - one I like but can't decide if it quite works or not. I will have to be brave and put it to the public test with family and friends!

New Year's Resolution...

I have decided on a belated New Year's Resolution: I will make a bigger effort to buy and read at least a couple of books each year by lesser known Goodreads authors. I will make the effort to hunt down books that I really liked the sound of but didn't win a copy in a giveaway.

And, of course, I should review it...

New e-book & discount offer...

My 3rd book in the Athlandia series, "Love and Restitution", is finally available now as an e-book, joining the others, (starting on Smashwords but elsewhere soon). It's nice to have them all as a complete set of both paperbacks and e-books.

Smashwords are offering a 10% discount until 06/01/13 using the code PX94T.