Oooh, I'm so close to 20% I can taste it! I've never got this far with a novel before, so i'm pretty chuffed. Not to mention the pages and pages of long-hand i've yet to type up, which could put me nearer to 35%, I reckon!!
Been MIA for a while ~ I've hit the time when my baby would have been due, and it's been a difficult time for us, especially as we're not yet pregnant again. So, there's been one minor emotional meltdown, and lots of quiet time, while I attempt to surf over this particularly messy few weeks. I'm almost out the other side of things though, so hopefully I'm headed in the right direction.
Scarborough ~ ah, what a dichotomy of a place! Pensioners vs hen parties, Kiss me Quick vs Victoriana. I loved it! Could I have spent a week there? Probably not ~ we had as good as run out of things to do by the time we left (fish & chips, funfair, pirate ship ride around the bay, art gallery, castle, publishers discount bookshop). I reckon a weekend was just about right. Hotel was marvellous ~ if you're ever staying in Scarborough then the Crescent Hotel comes highly recommended by moi.
Currently reading Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl. Enjoying it thus far, but the reviews suggest that it jades after a while. We'll see......
PS: Didn't manage to give blood in the end ~ because I have acupuncture I was required to take a copy of my therapist's certificate to prove that they are registered and therefore I have not contracted some hideous blood disease from allowing some backstreet quack to stick dirty needles in me. But of course they don't tell you this until you get there (Me: Oh, I didn't know I should have brought that with me. Them: That's right, we tend not to tell people). Embarrassingly I had to walk back out IN FRONT OF EVERYONE, clearly having been turned down as unsuitable ~ so there's a room full of people who probably think I'm an intravenous drug-using hooker with malaria. Marvellous.
Friday, August 15, 2008
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"an intravenous drug-using hooker with malaria" Ha ha, lol.
Sorry to hear it's a tough time - lots of love to you both.
Sounds as if you are getting there in all sorts of ways, Kate. Best wishes to you both and well done with the writing.
Popped by to thank you for your feedback regarding OU215 - I've now signed up for it! Very exciting!
Glad to hear your writing is going so well and that you had such a wonderful time in Scarborough.
Sorry to hear of your minor emotional meltdown, big hugs.
Aw, you're bound to be emotional right now... it's like the aftershocks of an earthquake, I imagine. These things take time.
Brilliant that you're doing so well with the writing.
Laughing at your shame of being rejected by the blood people - how utterly fabulously humiliating!
Must have been a very difficult time for you. Hope you are feeling a bit more positive now.
I did have to walk out instead of giving blood once (in fact the only time I'd ever tried to and it's put me off going back) purely because I'd taken a ventolin inhaler less than 7 days before, so sometimes it is the most minor of things that they reject you for. Why don't they tell people about that requirement, anyway? It will just mean some people who want to donate can't.
Well done on the writing!
I had a friend who actually offered to be tested for giving blood as a way of finding out if she had VD! She didn't but not for want of trying. Miow.
Glad you're feeling good and 20% means you're well into it now and I can't wait to read it.
20%! You're doing well!
Sorry you couldn't give blood but at least you're not a 'an intravenous drug-using hooker with malaria' ... are you?;-)
Sorry about the tuff bit... hang in there. Scarborough sounds great, though, and VERY well done with the writing - keep it up!
Scarborough is nice, isn't it!
An even bigger thanks to you for the message on my blog when it's a tough time for you (HUGS to you and yours).
Good for you on the writing front.
You must fit the non-blood giving thing into a novel!
Glad to hear the novel is coming along, unlike mine which is still mostly in my head. I cannot send you enough sympathy- last summer we had a miscarriage. I'm lucky enough to be typing whilst our new baby sleeps now, but there's not a day goes by that it doesn't hurt. If my good wishes were enough to make it happen for you, I would exhaust your blog with them xxx
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