Slacking

 I'm not going to look at how long it is since I last came on here. It's too embarrassing. I think it was before my cruise.

Over the past month, I've written ten short stories and sent them off to My Weekly and People's Friend. I've been enjoying the PF's Writer's Hour on Tuesdays on X (still think that's ridiculous!) where I get to virtually chat with the other writers. This is fantastic as, up until now, they have just been bylines on a page. My 3 part serial has been and gone in PF and I've had some wonderful feedback from that. I've been asked to think about writing another one but haven't yet come up with a plot. 

Not much has been happening apart from having discovered I have a half brother in Orlando and a cousin (once removed) in this country, neither of which I knew about a few weeks back! Jon and I actually met my cousin and his wife and we had the most wonderful time together. I felt a huge connection. There is a huge story to all this and I am thinking that, one day, it has to be in a novel.

Just got back from the cinema, having seen The Blackening. A sort of 'black' humour horror. Very good. One of the characters was hilarious.

Yes, I have seen Barbie twice, and I've seen Oppenheimer, plus many other movies since last I blogged. We have just watched 'Collision' on TV, which aired in 2009 (probably when we were still in Bahrain the first time and missed it).  It really was excellent and I loved the ending. ITVX.

A busy day with the grandkids tomorrow but back to writing on Friday. Whenever Ant rings and I eventually say I have to go because I'm working, without fail I get back 'Work? What do you mean 'working'?"

A writer's lot. 😬

Quote for today"

'Description should begin in the writer's imagination and end in the reader's'

Stephen King.