Today I went to see a friend who had a part
in a recent W Yorkshire playhouse Production (9 people with no experience of drama
performed individual pieces written in co–operation with WYP.) I expected to watch that, have a bite to eat
and head home to crossword class. Instead it turned into something more. She wanted
to pick my brain about the difference between womag and competition type
stories, then we talked about he Writers Circle
and what, if anything, can be done to make it less d–u–l–l.
After that she wanted my advice about the
layout of the room she writes in (don’t ask me why as I haven’t a clue). We
covered all kinds of other stuff too. It was GREAT to have somebody to talk to
other than John!
Last night’s quiz would have been fine IF I
ever read a newspaper or watched the news but as I gave up on both of those,
years ago (too miserable) I didn’t have much hope of answering questions about
events of 2012. My team came 5th out of 9!
My ex’s date must have gone well as he’s making
plans to see her again next week, PLUS he’s meeting another woman on Saturday. I hope he finds somebody soon
as it would be good for both of us.
After seeing my friend, I was too late to
go to crosswords so I spent a bit of time thinking about what I’m going to say
tomorrow.
I’m giving a talk on the life of a writer today. I haven’t been
promoting my talks as it’s hard for me to get to places because I don’t drive
and haven’t yet learned my way round the bus system. My plan is to work from
some very brief notes and see what happens. If it works amazingly well and I
get a recommendation to do more talks, then fine but if it doesn’t work well
and I never get asked again, that’s fine too. I’d much rather run a workshop or
talk to writers groups.
When I switched the machine back on, joy of
joys I had another sale – this time to Fiction Feast. It’s a 1500 word story so
that will go on at least two pages which means more money for me.
It’s a ghost
story. I write very few of those as I didn’t feel I had the knack, but after attending
Stella Whitelaw’s short course at Swanwick in August, I was inspired to give
them another go, so thanks, Stella.
My final task was to write a brief outline
of the workshops I’m running this year for NAWG (September, at Warwick Uni see www.nawg.co.uk). I’m doing one on writing for
Woman’s Weekly and another on how to increases your chances of winning a prize
in a short story competition. The festival is being rejigged and lengthened and
I’m already looking forward to it.
Errm, Linda I think a couple of spam messages have sneaked in, which you may wish to delete!
ReplyDeleteGreat news on the sale to Fiction Feast and also that the NAWG festival is at Warwick Uni, which is near to me. I might try to come along!
I was going to say the same about the spam, Linda. I also had a sale to Fiction Feast today - wonder if they'll be in the same issue!
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