Abnormal is short-listed for a free Professional Critique :)

I almost bagged a free professional critique from author James McCreet through Writing Magazine, UK. Here I am, short-listed in it: 

                                 Every little (boost) helps :) 

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Completed the first draft of my current novel :)

End of Round One:

First rewrite completed ✓

First hangover since rewrite completed ✓

Sleepless night reviewing plot-holes ✓

Anxiety attack over length of time spent writing book ✓

Second hangover in the making ✓


But bit-by-bit, word-by-word, the task moves closer to completion and it will surely all be worth it in the end.... 

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Nottingham Writers' Conference 2015

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Haven't blogged for so long that I struggled to open a new post

Not good

The editing of Abnormal is going okay though - hence my lengthy absence

I went to the #wemconf2015 WEM Writers' Conference 2015 last weekend with the lovely Cat Roberts-Young

Similar format to last year. Here is a taster in pictures:

 

 

 

Writers Tracey Holland(@auroranemesis)& Cat Roberts-Young(@catcopycreative)

Meeting other writers :)

 

 

Mingling WEM peoples

The Goody Bag table - (Keep calling them Doggy Bags. Similarly tasty, perhaps)

 

 

WEM Doggy Bags

A quick selfie whilst waiting for the next talk...

 

 

Moi

Maureen Duffy - Keynote Speaker - delivers an interesting writer-reality-check talk.

'Don't give up the day job'

 

 

Maureen Duffy

The talk on Freedom to Write was thought-provoking. Writers' responsibilities and considerations - particularly in lieu of the Charlie Hebdo Tragedy. I also listened to an entertaining natter on Writing Humour/Satire (something I do need help with). And the final talk my little brain strained to absorb was the gritty Nuts and Bolts of Writing. All useful and well put-together stuff :) 

 

 

Self-censorship talk

Author Alison McQueen and Literary Agent from Lucas Alexander Whitley - Ben Clark (@BenjaminBenamor)

 

 

 

 

 

The ever-popular Agenty talk

 

Now Cat and I will say Goodbye. (Aha, poet not novelist!)

Adieu

 

 

 

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How to be a loser #beabestseller

Happy New Year everyone!!
 

I didn't win the ITV's This Morning beabestseller thingey.

I watched it, out of curiosity, and tried being happy for the finalists :)

Well done!
 

And I'm over it now.

And, to celebrate nothing, here's a spacey picture of another world - taken through the window whilst on route to Cyprus last September :)