Well, the start of the year has come and gone and we now are into the hottest month of the year, for here.
We’ve also had possibly the wettest start to the new year, which combined with the heat has resulted in an abundant growth of weeds and grass. As I am said weed and grass manager for our garden, it is my task to keep them in check.
Easier said than done, some days, but I do my best.
It usually means doing said weeding and mowing either early in the day or late in the day, leaving the middle of the day to recover and hopefully, now my youngest has started school again, a chance to get back in to writing.
I’m still working on my medieval and just finished re-reading same and editing it with fresh eyes. It needed that and I’m glad I did. I’m no perfectionist by any measure, but even I can see the benefits of leaving a story for a period of time and coming back to it for tweaking, here and there.
I’ve been doing a ton of reading over the past two months, largely because my youngest has tended to hog the computer, and because she also hogs my time during the day, leaving little left for indulging my writing. Nighttime is little better, and by the time she is shoo’d off to bed I’m not inspired to do anything more than research – which is good, but not as satisfying as writing.
So now I have no excuses and I’m looking forward to getting my teeth into the adventure anew and maybe finishing it before too many more months go past.
I’m quite proud that I managed to finish not only my outstanding (by a couple of years)PP story, plus the severely delayed (by seven years) LOTG story before the end of last year. They had been nagging at me to be finished and I did it.
Let’s hope the rest of the year is as positive as the beginning.







Did ever an author suffer so…………..

