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Originally from Jersey, I abandoned the rock and now live in a teeny tiny village in East Sussex with my lovely boyfriend, two boys and the smelliest dog in the county. I have just abandoned my job to write a novel. When not having a panic attack at so rash a decision, I am to be found thinking about food, sipping Vodka Tonics and/or red wine and generally wandering about in my pyjamas looking a little bewildered.
I am also halfway through a degree with the Open University (Eng Lit and French) and tootle the flute in a chamber orchestra. I am therefore very clever and interesting completely and utterly knacked out most of the time. Or slightly squiffy. Or something. Yes, definitely something.
Email me: jenny [at] spiralskies [dot] com
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Hello Jenny. Found you, as us writers do, by googling myself (as I do daily to confirm I still exist). Thank you for flagging me up as one of your writerly sites - i hope you’ve found some of what’s on there as helpful as i have found some of what’s on here funny and clever and insightful. I LOVE your thermometer. I have a similar thing ongoing when writing, and by your yardstick (I tend to work to 110,000) I’m about 62% through no. 8. By the way, if you visit my site you’ll see i am in a state of some excitement right now, which is why I’m here instead of beavering towards 63%…. Keep up the good work! Lynne
Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance - Wow, Lynne, how exciting! Good luck - I shall be following your progress and keeping my fingers crossed for you. Plays havoc with the typing, but never mind!
It made me smile that you google yourself - isn’t the internet a wonderful thing!?
Thanks for your kind words; I like to think I have my moments… your site is fab, loads of helpful stuff for the aspirant among us.
I shall keep you posted, Jen! And yes, it is playing havoc with the writing; though I imagine I’m now at about 78% done, using your method, (I am working to a deadline called ’school breaks up sooner than you think’) I keep having to break off to think things like ‘frock’ and ‘nail varnish’ and ’should I get an eccentric haircut?’. All distractions I could really do without…
I don’t know a single writer who doesn’t google themselves; it’s the only decent way to find out if people actually like what you do!
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Oh and keep up the literary efforts my dear! The world needs more wordsmiths.
Dangerous to blog when you are also trying to write a book: blogging is so easy and writing a book is so hard.
I speak from experience: after four years my blog has 175,000 words and the two books I attempted got nowhere. I don’t think they would have been much good, but then neither is my blog.
Plus an OU degree, two children and a dog?
I wish you the very best of luck.
Thanks for the luck, Tony, I think I’ll need it! I have to disagree with you though - your blog is most interesting.
“Most interesting”?
How dare you, patronising little minx?
Oh, I’ve just realised that we must have met in Hastings Sainsbury’s, each of us being a representative of one the two rival gangs which infest the place, fighting over territory and getting in each others’ way: the SHARKS, dusty relics shuffling around clutching their loyalty cards in palsied, liver-spotted, hands trying to think of some suggestive witticism with which to enliven the day of a comely check-out girl, and the JETS, tired, dog-owning pyjama-clad mothers, many of them aspiring writers, pouring in from their rural retreats in search of BOGOF offers on Peruvian medlars or whatever else Jamie is recommending that week.
I am the SHARK with his own teeth (not quite a complete set) and a full head of lustrous fair hair belying his mature years.
I shall keep my weary eyes peeled for you. Have never thought of supermarket shopping as gang warfare before. Makes it all the more exciting! Oh, and ‘comely’ is SUCH a good word.
Jenny, I’ve read your blog and I find myself portrayed in it. The struggle between the craft and the means to make a living, the everlasting feeling of being overwhelmed by words and ideas. If you feel like it, please stop by http://www.horaciomontenegro.blogspot.com
This is my online journal. The entries are originally written in spanish and, since I don’t have much time to translate, I’ve embedded a translation widget which you’ll find on the right column of my blog.
Though some of it may be lost in translation, I trust you’ll feel someone out there is keeping you company and going through the same trouble.
Yours truly,
Horacio Montenegro.
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