Just a bit of an update. There must be more to it than simply Not Blogging, but I’m totally in The Zone on the novel front. I expect to break 50,000 words in the next couple of days. It’s been tricky to stay motivated, because almost all of what I’m writing is too sketchy, clumsy, and abysmally poor to stay in anything resembling a final draft. But every day I’m learning something new about my characters, or adding a little something to the plot, so I’m hoping I’m doing something towards the end product. Sigh... Shouldn’t be grumbling really though – 50k words *huzzah!*
In case you missed it when I blogged about it a while ago, I should probably say that this isn’t the same novel that I was working on last year. I wrote a rough first draft for that and ended up shelving it. I do intend to return to it after I finish this one, but I got so low on momentum with it after all my Procrastination Issues, what with The Media/Society/Everyone Else/Modern Stuff and everything, and decided a fresh new project might be the thing. It is the thing. I think.
I’m not saying much about the plot because I think I talked all my excitement out of the last one - but it’s a revenge story and is kind of dark. Juicy stuff. I hope.
Obviously then, I have been spending a lot of time with bessie mate Microsoft Word lately and very little with anyone else. This is probably not good news for any social skills I may once have managed to build up. I did spend yesterday hanging out with several thousand other people though because I ran the Hastings Half Marathon. I finished in 2hrs 13secs, which I think is OK considering it was my first proper race, and the killer hills on that course. I mostly managed to do this without putting my foot in my mouth.
Mostly. No details supplied.
And next week I’m off on my holidays to Devon, which will be a lovely break. Lovely Easter holidays – I might actually get to see the boyf for the first time in ages. I have already eaten an Easter egg this year, so there. Hotel Chocolate sent me one like last year. I don’t want to make you hate me here, but it was reeeally nice. Even nicer than last year’s one. It was dark chocolate this time, which is my favourite kind. It was all thick and chunky and had yummy individual choccies inside.
I decided not to run the comp this year because of the blog being (mostly) on hiatus, but if you google it you’ll probably find other blogs running it where you can get a chance to win some Easter choco-goodness for yourself.
That’s about it really. A girl can only stand so much excitement after all. I hope you are well too. Stay in touch won’t you? Facebook me or something. Don’t expect me to play zombies, or vampires, or whatever with you on there though. I am an adult. And will be much too busy thinking about how cool superheros are or what it will be like when I become a rock star.



