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Hi all,
Sorry I've missed the Tuesday meetings for a couple of weeks, and I'm still not on time, writing on Monday instead! I have been spending a lot of time helping out my dear friend who is off to New Zealand shortly to visit family she has over there. Can I say a big thank you to everyone for your warm wishes for her. She's a very special person and I hope things start to get better for her, as I'm sure they will once she's gotten her life back on track. I keep telling her to just float along, time isn't important right now, healing is.
To add mayhem to my already chaotic life my dad is staying at my house, and has been since he came back from his traveling a couple of weeks ago. He has taken over my eldest son's room that has the desktop computer and Internet connection, hence why I have not been able to get online! He's at work today and I'm not so I thought I'd take this chance to catch up and see how everyone was fairing. Apart from colds, which I hope are better now, you all seem to be doing really well - congrats all!
I have been writing like a woman possessed!
With my dad living here and will be for the next three months (Aaargh!) since he is working in Perth and he lives country, I have given up my part-time job! Crazy you may think, but what the hey I can always go back to cleaning when I've finished my book. Speaking of which I have hit the 3/4 mark, I have been writing between 2500 and 4000 words a day! I'm barely coming up for air, but do you know what? I've never felt more alive!! I think I'm a writing junkie - it gets to 1am and I look at the clock and think I should really go to bed; my 2-year-old daughter will be up at 6am! Then a little voice cries in my head - no… no… just a couple more lines. And so it hits 2am and I finally drag myself off to bed! When I finally finish this book I think I'm going to need a solid week of sleep to try and diminish these suitcases - not bags - under my eyes!
The end is nigh! Happy writing all, and see you on the bookshelves!
Claire x
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A million and one congratulations, Clairea. You are on fire. I often feel my best writing is done when the pressure is at its highest and I feel like unravelling. I seem to write harder, longer, faster as a result. Go with it. Don't analyse it, don't even think about what you're writing. Just let it flow out. Everything can be edited - it's getting it out of the wetware and into the hardware that counts.
Good luck - you'll inspire plenty of people here, I'm sure.
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Slow writing week for me but I have already put out the do not disturb sign for Thursday, Friday and Saturday this week. I'm hoping to have my re-write done and tidy up the synopsis. Then well not real sure which way to go then. Do I do another re-write, how many times should you do it before enough is enough? or do I put it forward to something like Louise Thurtell's Friday Pitch. Hmm I really think this is soooo much harder than the writing. Knowing me I will go for another re-write, I'm bound to find more bits and pieces that just don't gel or make sense. Great work Clairea I had to change my writing times from being at night cause I would get so wrapped up in it and started doing all nighters which is great if you make sense, but my brain would go to putty and I'd be in an oblivious bliss thinking how great until in the light of day I'd discover I was more than off in my own little world. Hope everyone has a wonderful time over the Easter break and happy writing!
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Congratulations to you, Claire. Well done - it's quite inspiring to hear such success stories.
As for my own writing week, any ounce of creativity I had has dried up completely. It's not been until today really that I've been able to think my way through things. I feel like all I've done is write complete crap (quite disheartening really), but I used the time to do some transcribing and picked up on a couple of ideas that I'd had early on.
I'm hoping to move forward again this week.
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Hi all. Sounds like you've been on quite a roll Clairea. Congratulations! Three quarters is a fun place to be, I've found.
I've also been progressing more quickly than I expected. I'd been struggling the whole way through and suddenly, like magic, everything just fell into place. I don't know how but somehow it all just came together and made sense. As I approach the end of the book everyone is in the right place, doing the right things for the right reasons. I wish I knew how I did it. If things keep going the way they're going I may actually be finished by around this time next week but I'm not going to tie myself to that. In fact, I've probably just jinxed myself. Whether or not it ever sees the light of a book store I don't know, but it'll be finished. Four months ago I wouldn't have thought it possible that I'd have a whole, finished manuscript but there you go.
Excuse the veritable orgy of self-congratulation. I don't know what's gotten into me.
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Well, I guess I didn't jinx myself after all. Between the long weekend (nothing like having the other half around to do all your housework) and the way the momentum just kind of kept building I finished off the final chapter earlier this afternoon. I'm torn between pride at actually finishing the thing and this kind of sense of, what do I do now?
Hope you're all having a good Easter.
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Well done Clairea
Im dreaming about coming to an end with my book for now lol, its way more than I thought it would be. The more i write the more empty holes to fill up.
Well done Marelle 
I "think" next step you should take is get the book edited professionaly if it hasnt been yet and then hit the road and find a publisher that believes in your book and has nothing but positive intentions, and also lets you have your say
Lets us know how you go, I should be facing same issues soon hopefully
