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message 8051: by Sharon (new)

Sharon Atkinson (darkened_angel) Sarah, yours is in my bag this time. i will not forget it today.


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Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Tony wrote: "What are everyone's thoughts on collabs?"

I prefer to work alone, though I have no problems with helping a person out if they get stuck, and maybe suggesting a change of direction or plot change. I wouldn't expect to be given any credit as collaborator for that, after all that's what an Editor does! Maybe I missed my calling!


message 8053: by Tony (new)

Tony Gilbert (tonygilbert8) Why don't you start editing then? Start up a business on Facebook and charge by the chapter.

I've never done a collab myself, would consider it though.


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Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Sharon wrote: "Sarah, yours is in my bag this time. i will not forget it today."

Lol I should think so too! I am up to chapter 9 and tomorrow I have a staircase to stain!


message 8055: by Sarah (new)

Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Tony wrote: "Why don't you start editing then? Start up a business on Facebook and charge by the chapter.

I've never done a collab myself, would consider it though."


Because I would probably end up topping myself through boredom! I'll stick to writing I think.


message 8056: by Tony (new)

Tony Gilbert (tonygilbert8) Lol


message 8057: by Sarah (new)

Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Tony wrote: "Lol"

Anyway stress is bad for you! And I get the idea that would be a stressful occupation! Pandering to authors oversized ego's!


message 8058: by Tony (new)

Tony Gilbert (tonygilbert8) Yeah but I have children. I've learnt to deal with stress!


message 8059: by Sarah (new)

Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Tony wrote: "Yeah but I have children. I've learnt to deal with stress!"

Me too, three of them, Chris is 36 this year, Jo is 33, and Sophie is 11 in a months time!


message 8060: by Trisha (new)

Trisha Jones (authra) | 1074 comments I have kids as well my son is 10 (11 in June) my daughter is 8 (9 in may)


message 8061: by Tony (new)

Tony Gilbert (tonygilbert8) I have twins, a boy and a girl or nine, and an 18 month old son.


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Eva King | 1071 comments Tony wrote: "I have twins, a boy and a girl or nine, and an 18 month old son."

I have two, stuart 5 and emily 3.
Hey Toni, I started writing around two years ago; for exactly the same reason as you; I'm an avid reader so why not write my own story. I do love it but sometimes i wake up thinking it's rubbish. Wrote almost 45k on an novel, woke up in a fowel mood and deleted it all. I could shoot myself now!


message 8063: by Tony (new)

Tony Gilbert (tonygilbert8) I bet, Eva.

I often delete what I've written, but never anywhere close to that amount. In fact I've never even written that amount!

What sort of genre do you write?


message 8064: by Trisha (new)

Trisha Jones (authra) | 1074 comments Eva wrote: "Tony wrote: "I have twins, a boy and a girl or nine, and an 18 month old son."

I have two, stuart 5 and emily 3.
Hey Toni, I started writing around two years ago; for exactly the same reason as yo..."


I do not look at my writing if I am in a fowl mood


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Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Tony wrote: "I have twins, a boy and a girl or nine, and an 18 month old son."

Cally's secret is about a couple who are expecting twins, but there are skeletons in Cally's closet in the form of male model Daniel Le Fevre. Cally left a nightclub with Daniel in January and in a drunken stupor she accidentally slept with him and now she's pregnant!


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Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Eva wrote: "Tony wrote: "I have twins, a boy and a girl or nine, and an 18 month old son."

I have two, stuart 5 and emily 3.
Hey Toni, I started writing around two years ago; for exactly the same reason as yo..."


Um if I told you it's possible to retrieve it would you be happy or not?


message 8067: by Eva (new)

Eva King | 1071 comments Sarah wrote: "Eva wrote: "Tony wrote: "I have twins, a boy and a girl or nine, and an 18 month old son."

I have two, stuart 5 and emily 3.
Hey Toni, I started writing around two years ago; for exactly the same ..."


if you could I would drive all the way to France and kiss you! but i work on a netbook.

@ tony i write romance, tried writing fantansy but it sound silly, so sticking to what i know. besides i read somewhere that womens comercial sell better.


message 8068: by Eva (new)

Eva King | 1071 comments Trisha wrote: "Eva wrote: "Tony wrote: "I have twins, a boy and a girl or nine, and an 18 month old son."

I have two, stuart 5 and emily 3.
Hey Toni, I started writing around two years ago; for exactly the same ..."


too right, i shouldn't either. been regretting ever since


message 8069: by Sarah (new)

Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Trisha wrote: "Eva wrote: "Tony wrote: "I have twins, a boy and a girl or nine, and an 18 month old son."

I have two, stuart 5 and emily 3.
Hey Toni, I started writing around two years ago; for exactly the same ..."


I don't have bad moods, but if I am moody for whatever reason I read through Take 3 Blondes or Growing Old Disgracefully, both romantic comedy, though the latter is a bit on the hot side!


message 8070: by Trisha (new)

Trisha Jones (authra) | 1074 comments Eva wrote: "Trisha wrote: "Eva wrote: "Tony wrote: "I have twins, a boy and a girl or nine, and an 18 month old son."

I have two, stuart 5 and emily 3.
Hey Toni, I started writing around two years ago; for ex..."


I did the same thing years ago that's y I made that rule


message 8071: by Sarah (new)

Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Eva wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Eva wrote: "Tony wrote: "I have twins, a boy and a girl or nine, and an 18 month old son."

I have two, stuart 5 and emily 3.
Hey Toni, I started writing around two years ago; for exa..."


You should still be able to retrieve it if it was on your hard drive all you need to do is to go back to the day before you deleted it and reboot, it won't change anything you have written and saved but it will allow you a second chance.


message 8072: by Eva (new)

Eva King | 1071 comments Sarah wrote: "Eva wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Eva wrote: "Tony wrote: "I have twins, a boy and a girl or nine, and an 18 month old son."

I have two, stuart 5 and emily 3.
Hey Toni, I started writing around two years ..."


i never saved it on the hard drive,save it on a dongle thingy. i'll rewrite it some other time when I'm inspired.
tomorrow we are, hopefully; signing papers for this flat. I'll keep you posted


message 8073: by Sarah (new)

Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Eva wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Eva wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Eva wrote: "Tony wrote: "I have twins, a boy and a girl or nine, and an 18 month old son."

I have two, stuart 5 and emily 3.
Hey Toni, I started writing aro..."


Pity but it's worth a try go into system on the control panel and in there it will explain how to go back to the day you last worked on it, your computer makes shadow copies, that's how the police manage to recover stuff people delete from their computers in an attempt to avoid detection.


message 8074: by Sarah (new)

Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Eva wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Eva wrote: "Tony wrote: "I have twins, a boy and a girl or nine, and an 18 month old son."

I have two, stuart 5 and emily 3.
Hey Toni, I started writing around two years ago; for exa..."


I don't understand fantasy. My idea of fantasy is visions of chippendale lookalike men knocking at my door and stripping for me as a birthday surprise or someone arriving with a flashy sportscar that I won in a competition.


message 8075: by Eva (new)

Eva King | 1071 comments Sarah wrote: "Eva wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Eva wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Eva wrote: "Tony wrote: "I have twins, a boy and a girl or nine, and an 18 month old son."

I have two, stuart 5 and emily 3.
Hey Toni, I started..."


crap, i can't even remeber the month i last worked on it.


message 8076: by Sarah (new)

Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Eva wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Eva wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Eva wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Eva wrote: "Tony wrote: "I have twins, a boy and a girl or nine, and an 18 month old son."

I have two, stuart 5 and emily 3.
Hey T..."


Was it before or after Christmas? You can do it more than once too!


message 8077: by Eva (new)

Eva King | 1071 comments before, i think around summer time.


message 8078: by Eva (new)

Eva King | 1071 comments Rishika wrote: "Ok, sharon Will send it now, Wow Now I am relif, Atleast there is someone who could help me edit my work."

thanks Rishika for adding the anthology on your tbr list, it was hard work but complelty worth it


message 8079: by Rishika (new)

Rishika | 233 comments Your welcome.....


message 8080: by Sarah (new)

Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Eva wrote: "before, i think around summer time."

Did you tell us about it on here? Why not go back through the pages here on goodreads and see if you can find any mention of it then try around that time.


message 8081: by Eva (new)

Eva King | 1071 comments Sarah wrote: "Eva wrote: "before, i think around summer time."

Did you tell us about it on here? Why not go back through the pages here on goodreads and see if you can find any mention of it then try around tha..."


i remember sending an email with the first chapter, i'll look at the date that way, thanks sarah


message 8082: by Sarah (last edited Feb 06, 2013 11:46PM) (new)

Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Eva wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Eva wrote: "before, i think around summer time."

Did you tell us about it on here? Why not go back through the pages here on goodreads and see if you can find any mention of it then ..."


Don't mention it sometimes us blondes retain important information as well as the useless stuff. My son would be so proud of me, that's twice I remembered how to do this! I had to go back to the future when I got hit by viruses that wiped out my firewall! I managed to reinstate my computer to the day before the viruses struck and download a patch to filter the little buggers out.


message 8083: by Sarah (last edited Feb 06, 2013 11:49PM) (new)

Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Morning all

A crisp freezing cold,bright morning here and I have to go and varnish a staircase. The words 'freezing' 'ass' and 'my' come to mind not necessarily in that order!


message 8084: by Sharon (new)

Sharon Atkinson (darkened_angel) Morning all,

I am in one of those, I can't be bothered moods at the moment (meaning I can't be bothered with work), maybe I will get inspired to be naughty, or just carry on with the editing ;o)


message 8085: by Trisha (new)

Trisha Jones (authra) | 1074 comments Morning all on this wet day
It's owing to be raining off and on all day


message 8086: by Sarah (last edited Feb 07, 2013 07:33AM) (new)

Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Sharon wrote: "Morning all,

I am in one of those, I can't be bothered moods at the moment (meaning I can't be bothered with work), maybe I will get inspired to be naughty, or just carry on with the editing ;o)"


Morning I'm having a bad day, I have to tell Sophie that Hugo was knocked down by a car this lunchtime and the vet says his injuries are such that it would be best maybe to put him to sleep. I left Alain to make the decision whether to bring him home and see if he survives the next couple of days. Even if he does he may never walk again.

We could so easily have lost both dogs today the reason Hugo ran off was to look for Eclair who had gone to see his girlfriend up the road, he came back with his tail between his legs knowing full well he would be in trouble. He's been searching the house for Hugo since we came back from the vets. They just telephoned to give us the bad news.

At least the girl that hit him stopped this time, but then again I witnessed it and someone else stopped too.

And I had such a good morning varnishing the stairs too!


message 8087: by Sarah (new)

Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Trisha wrote: "Morning all on this wet day
It's owing to be raining off and on all day"


Afternoon Trisha


message 8088: by Sharon (new)

Sharon Atkinson (darkened_angel) Oh no. That is such terrible news, the poor little thing.


message 8089: by Trisha (new)

Trisha Jones (authra) | 1074 comments Oh no poor puppy


message 8090: by Sarah (new)

Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Trisha wrote: "Oh no poor puppy"

Sharon wrote: "Oh no. That is such terrible news, the poor little thing."

Yes, Sophie is very sad, she thought of Hugo as her dog.


message 8091: by Sarah (new)

Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Trisha wrote: "Oh no poor puppy"

Yep, poor puppy.


message 8092: by Eva (new)

Eva King | 1071 comments Hey sarah, iam very much struggling with the formatting for the anthology so i can make it smaller, can i send it to you on email, see what the hell i'm going wrong?


message 8093: by Sarah (new)

Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Eva wrote: "Hey sarah, iam very much struggling with the formatting for the anthology so i can make it smaller, can i send it to you on email, see what the hell i'm going wrong?"

Yes,no problem but I don't think I will be able to look at it until next week. Bit sad today and I have to finish the stairs tomorrow.


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Good morning everyone. It looks like much has happened whilst i have been away, doing book stuff.Nice to meet you Tony.

Today my eldest son is coming to Bristol. I am meeting up with him to look at his new flat. I can't wait to have him living close again.

It is terrible about Hugo. Dogs become so much a part of the family.


message 8095: by Eva (new)

Eva King | 1071 comments I'm sorry to hear that sarah, it was selfish of me to ask without reading the commets. Until crimbo we are find, so don't worry


message 8096: by Sarah (last edited Feb 08, 2013 12:05AM) (new)

Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Tarian wrote: "Good morning everyone. It looks like much has happened whilst i have been away, doing book stuff.Nice to meet you Tony.

Today my eldest son is coming to Bristol. I am meeting up with him to look a..."


Eva wrote: "I'm sorry to hear that sarah, it was selfish of me to ask without reading the commets. Until crimbo we are find, so don't worry"

Not a problem Eva you weren't to know, and I'll get around to it way before Christmas, I promise. Anyone got any cures for puffy eyes? Off to the house in a while and I'm taking the other dog with me and keeping him in the house where I can see him while I finish varnishing the stairs!


message 8097: by Sarah (new)

Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Morning all

Sun's trying to come out, but it's cold and damp, I'm off to the house in a little while to finish the stairs and I'm taking Eclair with me. He's a sad doggy today lying on the sofa, missing his friend I suppose.


message 8098: by Sharon (new)

Sharon Atkinson (darkened_angel) Morning,

I have just been in training for back care at work. So boring.


message 8099: by Sarah (new)

Sarah Weldon (sarahrweldon-author) | 6045 comments Sharon wrote: "Morning,

I have just been in training for back care at work. So boring."


Morning, Ive been limbo dancing under the stairs trying to see as low as I can go without falling off the chair whilst varnishing under the treads of the open staircase. I have three left to do and the last one I will have to lie on the floor to do I think! And next week I have to start all over again with another coat, it needs at least 3 before we put heavy traffic up there.

It is special varnish for staircases, non slip guaranteed and so it should be at 34 Euros a litre! Eclair went with me and kept me company, sunbathing in front of the patio windows in the lounge WHILST I WORKED - How rude of him!


message 8100: by Sharon (new)

Sharon Atkinson (darkened_angel) Oh bless.


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