Happy Easter

I wish everyone a happy and safe Easter!

I envisage spending the next two days eating my way through the left over hot cross buns, gorging on Cadbury chocolate with my family, revelling in the knowledge that I have submitted Submission 11, and making a good start on writing a novel synopsis for Writing School Assignment Eighteen!

Halfway there...

I am halfway through the amount of submissions I need to make for Writing School!

Even better, I am one more edit away from submitting Submission #11, and I even have a few ideas about queries to non-fiction publications.

This is all very exciting for me, after all of these (years) of procrastination. Maybe my writing brain is finally kicking in?

Looking for inspiration

Today I got back in to writing mode (was I ever really there?) by completing my tenth submission for Writing School. It took me five weeks of typing and re-typing the story before I convinced myself I just had to let it be. Hopefully, I don't take as long to finish off the accompanying cover letter - I plan to have it all done and in the mail by tomorrow night.

In other news, we've finally foregone our old dial-up connection and have ADSL2 - great for accessing the Internet when the need to check a submission guideline arises, but very, very bad for getting stuck on the Internet reading blogs or looking for houses!

My list of potential projects is getting larger. I have three assignments left to complete for my Writing School course, two of which I have outlined. I also have some idea fragments for short stories to write, and with the four-day Easter long weekend coming up, I'll have some time off to sit down and write them - as long as the inspiration that makes the fragments gel together into a story turns up in the next week...

I wrote for six hours (read: sat in front of the computer with my story up on the screen, singing along to my music, thinking about projects that are way down the line in terms of priority, and then every now and then editing my story) today, and so am very pleased with myself!

Now I can go to sleep and enjoy the extra hour as we turn our clocks backward. Sweet dreams!