After three days of lovely sunshine and warmth it's back to cool and wet weather- it's also half term so everyone is around and there's the accompanying noise that goes with it, so the novella has gone on hold for a week...
I have a couple of short story ideas that I want to work on - jotting down points and character notes doesn't require quiet (fortunately).
I've got a few months worth of Woman's Weekly Fiction Specials to read too.
But I have a deadline for one story for Wednesday of next week.
At the writers' club we have a quarterly prose competition and the Spring prose deadline is next week.
Now for this story the judge has asked we include 3 things- a tin of treacle, the weather and a bird. I have been pondering these items for the last 10 weeks and coming up with various ideas, but nothing was quite right, until the sunny weather arrived the other day and my brain went into overdrive and began creating a back story for my character...
Having had further thoughts this morning I can see it has potential to be (another) longer story, but I think I can rein this one in and keep it within the maximum length- 2,000 words.
Before I go I just want to put in a mention for Rosemary Gemmell's new novella that is launched today 'The Aphrodite Touch' as Romy Gemmell and published by Tirgearr Publishing, an Irish independent.
Do pop in to Rosemary's Reading and Writing blog to help her celebrate, and for a chance to win a free e-copy...
Carol Bevitt's blog on her writing and inspirations, along with occasional literature related news...