Clicking into Place November 22, 2007
Posted by Jen in : Journal , trackbackOh, isn’t it fab when things magically fall into place? Thanks to Nice Caroline, I found my way not only to Sarah Salway’s Leading the Dance but also, click click clickety-click, to Sarah Salway’s blog. And as I’m something of a serendipity sucker, I’m thinking the angels were with me when I got an email back that very afternoon to say I’d snaffled the last place on Sarah’s writing course on 6th December.
Needless to say, I am really quite excited by this prospect. I mean, yes, give it another week and I will be panicking madly, hyperventilating as I lurch round Tunbridge Wells trying to find the right clothes to make me look proper writerly but not a nitwit. And on 6th December, I won’t be speaking. Oh no. Gulp. I will be too terrified for any of that speaking spazzily malarkey.
I’m not sure how to dress like a writer, actually. I’m thinking macramé cardigan and aubergine corduroy flares. And a beret. And a necklace made from beads bigger than my head. That’ll blend me in perfectly, no?
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I am currently wearing a macramé cardigan and brown corduroy flares. And a aubergine beret. And a necklace made from beads bigger than my head. So yes I do think that you’ll blend in perfectly.
I am so so so jealous (in a nice way of course)
Oh how exciting. Wish I was going on a course with Sarah Salway.
Oh I’m so jealous…I would love to go on a course run by Sarah Salway!
I think you need to ditch the beads and go for a cravat - you can’t look the part without a cravat!! (That goes for you too Caroline!!)
C x
Oooh excellent, sounds fab. Am loving your writerly outfit. I always find a nice big pair of milk-bottle glasses completes the look (well, it does on telly anyway).
Make sure you say DARLING a lot too. And practise some intense expression in the mirror. They’ll all be fighting to sit next to you, Jen!
Or alternatively you good go in something wafty and swan about looking for your muse. Or even go as yourself!
How big is your head? If it’s only the size of a Malteser, I think you could get away with beads the size of, say….erm…golf balls. Anything bigger, and you’d just look, frankly, weird.
Oh, and don’t wash your hair for a week beforehand. Writers avoid shampooing their hair for fear of washing good ideas out of their heads and down the plughole.
Mya x
Why are you making fun of my wardrobe?
Seriously, well done for nabbing the last place. T’will be wonderful. Maybe you should go for the beatnik look, all black and very serious and then you wouldn’t have to talk at all because people will realise you are A Very Serious Writer With Deep Thoughts:-)
x
Caroline - never mind, Pet. It’s what’s on the inside that counts
Cally - I am bursting with excitement. It’s a ‘writing about your life’ sort of course. I might have to actually GET a life so as not to be hindered on the day?
Cathy - I’ll tell you all about it, I promise.
Carol - A cravat, of course! I shall consult you first in matters of sartorial elegance from now on.
Lucy - Um, I actually wear milk bottle glasses. Will ‘darling’ till I’m blue in the face. Might clash with the cords though?
Breezy - go as myself? That’s crazy talk.
Mya - the thought of washing ideas down the plughole made me snort most unbecomingly. What a brilliant image. You should be a writer!
Lane - Maybe all black with hints of aubergine for the Beatnik Veggie look?
And a shawl. Don’t forget the shawl. Yes, over the cardigan. It’s the Writer’s Winter Look.
Enjoy - and please do tell us all about it afterwards.
You do make me laugh! The Writer’s wardrobe sounds delightful! I haven’t progressed that far yet. I’m still at the stage where I write in my PJs and dressing gown. I wonder when I graduate into my cardigan and corduroy flares??
Fantastic news about the course! Well done!
Hah. Is funny. Am going down to Devon to see my publisher for the first time, and Co-author said “And wear a fucking suit. None of that writery shit.”
What am I going to do with my crumpled linen jacket now?
Zinnia - ah, hadn’t thought about the seasonal adaptations of it all. Complicated business, isn’t it?
A Writer - I’ve found that getting up at 5.30 to write before work means that I wear my pyjamas underneath my clothes, just to be on the safe side. Taking off our jim-jams might mean our writerly-ness will disappear.
HW - “writery shit” sounds like the stuff I’m actually writing. Ooh, crumpled linen jacket sounds most writery though. And a panama hat. You have to have a panama hat. We’re a stylish lot, us writer types.
Oooh, very exciting. Can’t wait to hear what you wear … I mean, how it all goes.
JJx
Yellow mac, blue wellies, green tea-cosy, fake leopard-skin thong. Or similar . . .
JJ - it really IS exciting. Eek.
Wayne - I should just wear my usual undies then, yes?