Thursday 18 April 2013

All Excitement on the Blogging Front!


No, not me, I haven’t done anything exciting, but there’s a blog party going on over at Rosemary Gemmell’s Flights of Imagination Blog.

There is champagne and cake – need I say more? Oh I do? Well you can read excerpts from Rosemary’s new Tween Novel The Jigsaw Puzzle plus a giveaway!

It seems lots of my Facebook and Blogging friends are turning fifty this year and you can read about Sally Quilford’s new special 50th anniversary pocket novel over at her blog.

What have I done? Well I’ve just finished a story that took me weeks to write and hours of research. The hardest story I have ever written. I lost count of how many times I wrote and rewrote the first 300 words before I finally found my voice and got it moving. The final 2000 words arrived in a day once I’d finally got going.

It’s for a special project and it may not be accepted, but I enjoyed the challenge.

Ooh get me, two posts in a week! I think I need to go and lie down now – but first I’m going over to Flights of Imagination for some champagne and cake.

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  1. Cake did you say? See you over there ...

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  2. Oh and well done for finishing your story. Sorry the cake distracted me from that bit.

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  3. Good luck with that special project, which sounds most mysterious and intriguing! The stories that are the hardest work are always the ones I am most satisfied with.

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    1. Thank you, Joanne. There's certainly a sense of satisfaction when it's been hard work isn't there :-) x

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    2. Well done on the writing and this friend of yours turns 56 next Monday (22nd April). There's a meteor shower due that day, too. Be sure to watch it and raise a glass to me tipping over from being halfway to my bus pass to a bit nearer to it. Well, I would be, but when I checked, I don't get the bus pass until I'm about 67 under the new rules. B*gger!

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  4. That's so kind of you to mention my blog party, Teresa - thanks so much! And good luck with that specila project - look forward to hearing more about it.

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    1. Hope you didn't mind, Rosemary - there looked like plenty of cake to go round :-) x

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  5. Keep ue posted about the project, and good luck with it. How many words altogether?

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    1. Promise not to laugh, Frances... 2300! The first 300 words were so difficult to get right :-) x

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  6. Nice to hear from you twice in one week, but you are doing what I should be doing - writing instead of faffing about! Hope it comes to something.

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    1. I've been having a bit of a faff about myself, Maggie - I really need to get stuck in to something now (not more cake though!) :-) x

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  7. Great blog and thanks for the link to the champers. Great launch party! Good luck with your project - I'm sure it is absolutely brilliant and you will feel very satisfied to have a momentous task like that finished. :o) xx

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  8. I was asked to write a story to go with an illustration by a magazine and I found it so hard to write to order. Got there in the end but like you (around the 300 mark) I wondered if I'd ever get it finished. Just going over to Rosemary's.

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    1. It's funny how things eventually fall into place isn't it, Wendy! I love writing for a picture. I had a teacher at primary school who had a box full of pictures which we'd choose at random and have to write a story about :-) x

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  9. Well done, Teresa, on completing your special project. It must be a lovely feeling to have reached the end and I'm sure it will be accepted.
    I shall visit Rosemary now. I don't know about the cake. It's the champagne I need...x

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    1. Well I have my fingers crossed, Joanna :-) I could do with another slosh of champagne too :-) x

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  10. I'm fifty next month too, Teresa. So I'll have to do something foro that I suppose. I'm just not sure what.

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    1. Hope you can think of something great, Maria :-) x

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  11. Well done on the writing and this friend of yours turns 56 next Monday (22nd April). There's a meteor shower due that day, too. Be sure to watch it and raise a glass to me tipping over from being halfway to my bus pass to a bit nearer to it. Well, I would be, but when I checked, I don't get the bus pass until I'm about 67 under the new rules. B*gger!

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    1. You were born the same year as me Jacula. Fancy getting a meteor shower for your birthday :-) They keep moving the flipping goal posts for us though don't they! x

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  12. Gosh, I turned 56 last November which puts us in the same school year does it not? Have we mentioned that before? Probably! Glad your story has finally taken shape and I do hope it is accepted for whatever purpose you have written it. I have been over for some cake (only a few crumbs left I fear) but thank you for the link! Debbie :-)

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    1. Isn't it funny, Debbie? I'm keeping everything crossed for the story and will post more here when it happens whether it's accepted or not :-) x

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  13. Well done, it's great when you finally crack a difficult project. Let us know how you get on. x

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  14. I've only been away a few days and I've missed so much.

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    1. I know what you mean - it's hard to keep up isn't it :-) x

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  15. I'm sure that story will be snapped up Teresa. Good luck, not that you need it.xx

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  16. Congrats on finishing your new story Teresa...and wow how could I miss cake?

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  17. So many busy, exciting things going on. Congratulations on your story.

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