Of Raaaaaaaah and Writingness February 16, 2009
Posted by Jen in : Journal, Novel , 25 commentsAt the end of December, in this post, I said Things. I said that this year, I would Achieve Stuff. Well, I have news for you: it hasn’t quite happened yet. Oi! That’s my life you’re laughing at. Cease your sniggering forthwith! It does, actually, take quite a lot of time and effort Not Achieving Stuff. But. I have been busy. I have been learning my craft, like an apprentice. Not an Alan Sugar apprentice, obviously, since I fall over in high heels and power dressing makes me look wider than I am high. But I have thrown myself into learning about this writing malarkey in earnest. I have learnt that, the more I learn, the more I realise I don’t know. But it excites me. I am devouring the information until I have have so much, it will seep from my very pores. Eurgh, that sounds revolting. But you know what I mean. Don’t you? I have outlined and submitted the bare bones of my next novel-to-be: characters, setting, theme, tone – all of it. And I’m excited about that too. And I have been gobbling up Della Galton’s rather spiffing How to Write and Sell Short Stories. I made a start yesterday, sitting around reading magazines researching the market. I submitted a piece to new magazine First Edition. I sat down on Saturday evening for half an hour and entered this online writing competition.
So. I’m doing it. Oh yes I am. Inspired by Cal and Karen, who both had stories in a recent edition of TaB’s Fiction Feast, I am going for it big time. Jealousy, despite what you may have been told, is a wonderful, wonderful thing. So there. No. More. Excuses.
