If you can dream...

I don't know how he did this, but it's amazing anyway!
 
I am beginning to wonder if I have come to writing a little late in life, for I seem to remember it was never this difficult when I was younger. English was always my favourite lesson at school, my mind could conjure up such a feast of descriptive prose. I even wrote poetry for God's sake!

Despite all this soul searching and analysis, I have reached 20.000 words with my fledgling novel, 9Lives, and still think I don't really have a handle on this writing lark. Why is it that some days my pen is crammed full of words, so that you almost have to run to keep up; while other days it is like giving blood?
I have no idea if this is perfectly normal or just peculiar to me. But whichever it is, the word count is growing and I am reasonably pleased with my progress. I just wish I could stop finding all those extra bits that simply have to be included.

I also wish someone would stop me from constantly editing. Yes, I do know that is supposed to come after  but I cannot seem to stop myself. Comes from years of doing it for a living!
But we all write differently I'm told, and the proof of the pudding... and all that.




Another amazing feat, see above. I think I am hoping some of their brilliance and daring rubs off on me. Well, I can hope, can't I? 

I think I have made some bad mistakes in my time, but how about the publisher who included parts of another authors book inside yours?  I wonder who was most annoyed, David Jason or Helen Fielding? Funnily enough, it did seem like something that Bridget Jones might have done.

You may have noticed that we have changed Anita's book 'Ruby' back to 'Bad Moon'. It didn't seem right to change it and felt wrong somehow. They say you should never judge a book by it's cover, but we do, don't we? 

You will also have noticed that Anita's photograph has vanished from this blog. She really didn't like that one, so it had to go. You don't  see one of me either, my face tends to break cameras. But we have talked about it and we intend to find a solution. More about that at a later date.

Before I close, has anyone any feedback regarding NaNoWriMo? I was kinda contemplating having a go this November, but I'm not sure if it's a good idea or not. More for the experience than anything maybe...

Good talking to you all, see you next week...