Back to writerly matters!

I may not be nipping in here for a while but - Hey! Hey! Hey! -
I've posted off my first three chapters to my favoured agent!!!
Let the dreaded wait commence ... Ooo eck (Gulp).

Just because...

Because it's Easter

And I like this!

On writing ... someone once said...

"Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when victory is won."
Louisa May Alcott

"You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty."
Luisa May Alcott

"Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great or nothing. I won't be a commonplace daubler, so I don't intend to try anymore."
Louisa May Alcott
(All sounds a bit contradictory to me)

"A novel invites digression and a little relaxation of the grip because a reader can't endure being held that tightly in hand for so long a time."
Tobias Wolff

"Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time, and you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and discipline."
Peter Benchley

"A word after a word is power."
Margaret Atwood

"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for this reason."
Margaret Atwood

"Just nipping out to buy some wastebaskets."
Fabia

Stranger than Fiction

I have been away - unexpectedly - in another place. I have really been away in another world, a world of which I never would have believed I would ever encounter, let alone carry it on my shoulder. Over the past few weeks I have experienced the meaning of the word 'surreal'. I have been living in a world 'stranger than fiction' and I have to return to this 'other' world (on and off) for an indefinite period (you are forgiven for wrongly thinking it's a hospital for the insane!!!). But ironically, I need to nip in here and keep in touch with my novel (which is not stranger than fiction) in order to maintain a sense of normality, if you see what I mean. I'm sure this post cannot make sense to any reader (other than all those who know what's happening) and it is April Fools Day here, but believe me, when all is revealed - and all will be revealed - all will be understood. And no it's not just another excuse for procrastinating with the book!!! Oh how I wish!