Plans in sand

 Half the day was spent unproductively, waiting to find out if Yeovil Town's match was on. They didn't decide and announce it until 1.30pm. At least we hadn't travelled from Altrincham. Imagine!

After that, I could settle and get down to the long-overdue thinking. I was determine to come up with something for a serial this weekend. About a year ago, the editor sent me an example of a serial proposal that someone had sent in sometime in the past. It was fantastic and I unashamedly used it for my own. What I found was that, once you started completing the character analyses, their conflicts, personal stakes, development etc, the story outline began to emerge. Before that, I had been stuck, unable to form a complete plot. After this, I copied it, deleted the information I'd added, and was left with a serial synopsis template. Today, I looked for it and failed to find it (WHERE had it gone????!) so went through the process again, saved it and started to fill it in again. I didn't have much idea what this new one was going to be about, but I certainly didn't know that it was going to be called 'Daughters' and about a Hindu family! I have absolutely no idea where that came from lol. Now I have a whole lot of research to do, but that's OK because I love researching. The trick, as many of my friends know, is not to fall down the research rabbit hole and never scramble back out...

Later on, Ant and I sat down to watch Teen Wolf (we've been making our way through the seasons for about a year, whenever he comes to stay. Often we don't get the chance to watch it. We probably managed more before Jon retired ha). We saw some last night, but got deflected today by a true crime programme (we both love them). We ended up watching two but, worryingly, the second one was about a son who killed his parents with a shotgun because he wanted their inheritance. I kept trying to drop in how Jon was now retired, just in case :-)

I have read one page of my new book. I loved that one page and am very excited about reading page two.

'Write the story that's in your heart'...even if you don't realise it's there.