Let's Talk About Writing!

Hi,

Completing my first crack at novel-writing was a really big deal for me. It still is, but then there are hundreds of wannabe writers out there heading down that same, precarious highway – so nothing unique in what I’ve done. Though starting a novel is pretty easy, finishing it is a completely different story and only a very small percentage of writers see their journey through to the end.

How excited we get when first words spring up on the screen and you yell out ‘Come and listen to this!’ to your nearest and dearest. That first stab at a keyboard. A sentence, two lines at the most before you lean back, struck dumb by what you perceive to be a work of sheer genius. Everyone gathers round: your wife or hubby, the cat, the dog, grandma and granddad, the kids and next door’s kids. Then you read and everyone in the room goes quiet. Their expressions change to those of drugged cod and with weird grins they nod, dribble and then run for the door before a string of ‘whadyathinks’ comes after them.

A month later, typo-infested pages are shoved inside a padded envelope and mailed to some agent’s burgeoning slush pile...    

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