I'm sure that 2017 has entered a timeslip. I do not know what has happened to the days or where they've gone. But they seem to be rushing by at a ridiculous rate. Perhaps it's because of concentration - focusing on work in all sorts of ways.
I'd just got back from the fabulous
Writers' Weekend at Fishguard and I had to start concentrating on the new book. This is the second book in the duo that I've called as my working title - The Scandalous O'Sullivan Sisters. Incidentally I had such a fabulous time at Fishguard that I really didn't want to come home. I just can't wait till the next weekend course I'm running so that I can have all the fun, the laughter - and the fantastic discussions all over again. (More of that in a moment)
More fun - and more great discussions of writing/plots/heroes/heroines etc came when we were able to enjoy the great company of the fabulous Anne McAllister when she came to visit us for a weekend while she was in the UK researching her latest book. Anne was made extra welcome by the cats - Ruby who is always friendly, and, unexpectedly, by Charlie the Maine Coon. Charlie
is usually a bit stand-offish when new visitors arrive, but he took to Anne straight away. He even decided that he wanted to become a lap cat now that she was here. Perhaps Anne might have wished that he hadn't felt that way as Charlie is of course a Cat of Large Proportions so he is something of a weight when he is on one's knee!
Now I'm busy again - with that second part of the O'Sullivan Sisters' story - and planning the next course I'm teaching. This is coming up just before Easter and it's a weekend with Relax and Write to be held at the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester. It's a new course, aimed at anyone writing fiction - and hopefully dealing with the problems that so many people meet when trying to write a novel.
Things like:
Show don’t
tell
When /where
to begin
Writers’
block
Characters
Sagging
middleClichés – tropes
Voice
Self-editing/reviewing
your work
Because it's a 'examine the problem and repair it' course I've called it the
WRITERS’ REPAIR SHOP COURSE
and it takes place the weekend of 7th - 9th April at Cirencester
If you want more details about the weekend - or if you're interested in booking a place on this course. there are already students who have booked ahead, but there are still places left if you're interested. If so, contact Relax and Write on the website here
Now I have to get back to work on the second O'Sullivan Sister and get her story finished - because as well as the Writers' Repair Shop Weekend in Cirencester, I have a couple of other trips away, including one that is a very special trip for me - and for the Babe Magnet - when we head to Leicester . . . . but more about that late.
