Friday 28 March 2014

Ambiance



Well I hadn’t intended to post tonight.  But I’m sitting here editing part of my Novella and the ambiance is wonderful.  Outside is pitch dark and inside I’m surrounded by warm lamplight. The marvelous sound of falling rain outside adds to the sense of quiet, comfortable seclusion which cocoons me.   

No storms or winds, just the sound of falling rain, the warm lamplight, and space for thinking, space for writing, space for me.I'm blessed

Friday 21 March 2014

Starting over




After quite a break from posting on my blog I have begun again.

This morning is a lovely autumn morning just warm enough. The sun shines through the leaves of the trees and onto the newly mown grass. The new fence looks a little odd because of its newness and the fill and top dressing is a little too thick on the ground. It needs a good rake and then  we have to wait for the grass to poke new shoots through. This will take time.  The best time for new growth is spring of course. 

All this is a little like my writing journey. I have learned so much in the last year. But unlike the grass it doesn't need to wait for spring to start to grow.  Growth spurts occur as I have breakthroughs. This last ten months I have been working on a novella.  Sometimes I have despaired and thought to put it aside and then with support from my writing group and workshop I have found a new spurt.  It is still a work in progress.



Lately I have learned that authors who want to be published have to be responsible for much their own publicity through various social media outlets.  Now anyone who has read my blog in the past will know I am a bit of a technophobe with this stuff.  I have a Facebook page but only for games and with only two friends.  I have never tweeted - unless you count when I was a teenager back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and my friends and I twittered like birds.

But I have become a Blogger - much to my surprised delight -  with the help of  CD (clever daughter), here I should be honest and tell you the it wasn't just help.  CD set the whole thing up and kept my indecision under control by giving me limited choices.  I have been lax in the last months and haven't kept up with my blogging.  That stops now.

Next step - one day when the mood hits me - perhaps I will become a twitterer (is that even a word? No - I'm told it's tweeter.)

All this takes time - time away from writing.  so I am forced to consider my priorities.  And no.1 priority is writing.  However I will post on my blog at least once a fortnight. It may be about writing or an anecdote or just about something that has caught my attention.