Oh no you don't!
October 2020
I ought to have done this years ago - setting up a blog, I mean. There's millions of people in this world with a blog, but not me - an author of five novels plus short stories. I always thought "What shall I say? Who'd be interested?" But if I were giving tips on how to get an idea or your work noticed I'd say "set up a blog" as one of the must do items on a long list. So, finally, I take my own advice and here is the beginning of my blog.
I published my latest book in the summer and thought I'd give myself a couple of months off, see the family and sit in the sun and read books - oh to have the time to read, read, read. Well, that happened! What a good start. October arrived - and that is the date in my diary to start on my new book. Unfortunately, Life sometimes has a way of saying, "Ha, ha, oh no you don't." Not only did October arrive but storm Alex arrived. To cut a long story, strung out over several days, short, many tiles shifted on the roof and allowed the rain in here, there and everywhere. Buckets, jugs and pudding basins were strategically scattered, furniture moved away to safe spaces, and various men in overalls came to assess the damage. No writing was done. No planning even.
I'll start next week. Hmm... I see my diary says I might be required to puppy-sit for my daughter at her house for a whole week. Yay! I love dogs and who cannot love a doe-eyed puppy? OK, I know they're not everyone's cup of tea. She's likely to be lively and need a lot of attention and loving. Planning? Writing? Hmm...
So as not to waste a moment of time, I'll start to do a bit of marketing - well, perhaps a mass of marketing and this is a good time to start. Yes, I'll start a blog. (Well, I've got that far!)
I moved the start date for my new book back to the end of October.
Anyone else have a life like this?
I ought to have done this years ago - setting up a blog, I mean. There's millions of people in this world with a blog, but not me - an author of five novels plus short stories. I always thought "What shall I say? Who'd be interested?" But if I were giving tips on how to get an idea or your work noticed I'd say "set up a blog" as one of the must do items on a long list. So, finally, I take my own advice and here is the beginning of my blog.
I published my latest book in the summer and thought I'd give myself a couple of months off, see the family and sit in the sun and read books - oh to have the time to read, read, read. Well, that happened! What a good start. October arrived - and that is the date in my diary to start on my new book. Unfortunately, Life sometimes has a way of saying, "Ha, ha, oh no you don't." Not only did October arrive but storm Alex arrived. To cut a long story, strung out over several days, short, many tiles shifted on the roof and allowed the rain in here, there and everywhere. Buckets, jugs and pudding basins were strategically scattered, furniture moved away to safe spaces, and various men in overalls came to assess the damage. No writing was done. No planning even.
I'll start next week. Hmm... I see my diary says I might be required to puppy-sit for my daughter at her house for a whole week. Yay! I love dogs and who cannot love a doe-eyed puppy? OK, I know they're not everyone's cup of tea. She's likely to be lively and need a lot of attention and loving. Planning? Writing? Hmm...
So as not to waste a moment of time, I'll start to do a bit of marketing - well, perhaps a mass of marketing and this is a good time to start. Yes, I'll start a blog. (Well, I've got that far!)
I moved the start date for my new book back to the end of October.
Anyone else have a life like this?
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Anna wrote: "Mark wrote: "Those storms, whether natural, like Alex, or merely mechanical, like a sump pump failure and a whole basement flooded because of it - are just some of the joys of life.Can you sense m..."
I've come into the middle of this, so I'm not totally sure of the context. I don't exactly know the story of the two men you mention either BUT it sounds like it's based on the Greek myth of Sisyphus, a king who was punished for his sins by Zeus by being made to roll a large rock up a hill, only for it to roll back down again just as he almost reached the top. So he had to go down and begin again, same story, so he had to do it for eternity.
Any help? Good luck.
Fortunately, we're all different, but I'm glad I'm not so slow in getting books out as two very famous ladies I could mention.
Sisyphus, yes Laura, that's the one but the comedian, John Finnemore, changed it a bit! If you haven't heard John Finnemore on the radio, I think you are missing a great comedian.I've looked up the text of the sketch and it is shown here under the heading 'Sisyphus': https://j-f-s-p.livejournal.com/5054....
Hades the baddie is upset because although Sisyphus is supposed to be being punished, he loves the challenge. Hades is very cross because he devised something which has backfired.
The punchline by Zeus, as it sinks in, is terrific.
Thanks so much, Laura.
Anna wrote: "Sisyphus, yes Laura, that's the one but the comedian, John Finnemore, changed it a bit! If you haven't heard John Finnemore on the radio, I think you are missing a great comedian. He wrote Cabin Pr..."I hadn't heard of him but I'll check him out. Thanks, Anna.
John Finnemore's programmes are usually on Radio 4 or 4xtra.
That queue has to be orderly. But naughty Chester, the protagonist in my latest book, pushed and shoved his way to the front and would not shut up so I let him out.
Readers, we're not mad, maybe eccentric. Ahem.