This weekend was amazing – stupendously beautiful weather and for a change, nothing to do but write and read and laze about work very hard on the mss.
Speaking of hard work, I managed around 4.5k. Most of it was written yesterday, whilst at home, with the music on full blast to drown out the incessant barking of our neighbour’s dog which they leave locked up in their house, for hours on end!
I think the playlist I set up must have soothed it as it barked less than usual yesterday and it also encouraged me to write a helluva lot more. Mark – the hubby – got down a couple of k on his medieval fantasy zombie wip which, you have to admit is pretty darn cool.
Got to meet up with a hero of mine last night for the first time – Sarwat Chadda, author of The Devil’s Kiss published by Puffin UK and Disney Hyperion US. Had a tremendous marathon chat from 8pm to just after half ten. There was a lot of talking. It was ace.
This week I’m cracking on with as much writing as I can – the end is in sight. The initial thought that it may be a 80k book has been remarkably reduced as the action is just bursting forth and with that happening, well, everything is happening that’s supposed to be happening!
But more of this later. For now, it is back to running the world as the Queen of The World PA in a commodities company.