Friday, 22 June 2007

Oh God It's Friday again already and I'm late for Coffee

Oh No!

It's Friday again!

And Friday is the day that we - the Novel Racers - update our word counts"

And call in to Kate's Blog and post on our progress, and generally keep in touch.

Except I'm late.

Again.

And I have a 7 year old in my ear talking about her 10m swimming certificate, of which she is quite rightfully, very proud. But. I can't think straight. So I'm sending her to bed so that I can. Think.

Here is my Writing update.


  • I've completed 2 chapters/short stories and entered them in a competition. pleased about this - made a deadline at last!
  • I've written half of one conference paper on Writer's Block.nervous about this - don't wanna look an eejit in front of the wonderful and clever people, like Jackie Kay, and Al Kennedy, and Patricia Duncker...
  • I've posted on our new home page -Novel Racers am just soooo organised
  • I've booked a week in Spain to research my novel in the autumn.Hmm. We love this development!


  • Other than that - still feeling blocked and unworthy of holding a pen. But it will pass.

    One hopes.

    5 comments:

    Jenny Beattie said...

    Oooh er this Rodrigo gets around, doesn't he? What does he say Lisa?
    Jjx

    hesitant scribe said...

    JJ - This is in Portuguese, and the company is from Belgium. Unfortunately, he either can't spell, uses loads of slang, or Brazil has a different dialect to all the online dictionaries I've consulted! I do love a challenge!

    Anyway, the jist of it is:

    Oy. I got your blog from Google [because of?] an interesting [??] post. When you get a chance, have a look at my blog. It is about personalised T-shirts, showing stage by stage how we create good quality personalised T-shirts.

    Brilliant. Advertising! At least it's not for sexy lingerie which is what camiseta makes us think of in Enlgish eh!

    Hope you're well and recovered, and glad to be home XXX

    hesitant scribe said...

    I meant Brazil, not Belgium. It's too early for this!

    Jenny Beattie said...

    Oh look, I am so impressed, because clearly I can't tell the difference between Spanish and Portuguese or (Brazil and Belgium come to that!)

    I am back (and pleased) but totally knackered. Struggling to keep awake, want to write, but can't quite start...

    hesitant scribe said...

    I'm just really sad in that I love languages I guess - and Portuguese is really similar to Spanish so most of it I could work out.

    I have got rid of the kids today and what have I written? Zilch!

    But I have done the washing, been to the gym, swam a few lengths, and read Your Horse!