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Is it just me... or has the first half of this year gone stupidly fast??

About 1250 words this week, so I'm quite pleased with myself (6 days @ 250 words/day). 

The protaganist is set and the buddy character is just emerging, so it's a good part of the story.

Hope your writing week was satisfying.

Mdx

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Well done Merryd.

I don't have anything new and exciting to report, it's just the same-old same-old. I'm still editing. I've set a deadline for the beginning of September so hopefully I can stick to it. Other than that I don't have much to report.

Hope you've all had a great week.

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Hi,

I received my email from Jenny (retired agent), and there's lots of positives in there as well as her requesting some additions and more detail, so I've started on those.  She's not wanting too much changed or added so I'm hoping to have it finished this week.

Not started ms 2 yet, want to get ms 1 out the way first.

Not much else happening, I'm still a bit shell shocked at her liking my story I think!

Happy writing everyone.  Have a fantastic week!

Claire

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I know what you mean Merryd. I can't believe how fast the year is going. Congrats Clairea that is great news sounds like you are definitely on the right track fingers crossed that soon you will be letting is know about your book being published!

I have been getting heaps done in my holidays it has been fantastic the only bad part is now I think it is going to make it twice as hard to go back to work again but I guess somethings just have to be done. I'm loving the way ms2 is shaping up. I must admit I always thought I wanted the first to be a stand alone story  and have 2 be something totally different . I realise now but the reason I was thinking like that was because I was worried I would only have one in me. But now I am so glad that I left a thread hanging because that is what I'm building 2 around. I'm enjoying taking that little bit of info and building on the new story and it is even more satisfying because my characters are the same as old friends and I'm not quite ready to see them off just yet.

Hope everyone has had great week.

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It seems everyone's in a positive frame of mind still. Well done, all....keep striving. Claire that's excellent news. Is this Jenny from Melbourne? It all sounds hugely encouraging. Congratulations. I've had a mad week. My life's a circus anyway but I am 4000 words from finishing the novel and I'm very happy that the end is in sight. I've also done a proofing of the first pages of Royal Exile - this is when the manuscript turns into a book and is sent for proofing set up in its book format. Always a lovely milestone to see the words as they'll look on each page with chapters set up, etc. Managed to turn that around in a few days and got it away this afternoon back to Sydney. So with luck I'll get the crime away this week and that's two major projects I can tick. Next week I begin editing work on The Whisperer for children. It will be all about editing through June. I'll return to writing from July 1. Have a wonderful week everyone. Fx

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Hi Fiona,

No Jenny isn't from Melbourne, she's English.  She has contacts in the UK and used to be an agent for fantasy work as well as owning her own bookstore for 20 years!  She has a fountain of knowledge, I feel I've learnt so much from her already.  It has been fantastic having someone read my work who is in the know and still had a nod of approval!   The only thing that worries me is if Jenny gets a publisher in the UK to take on my work that I will have to return there to live for a while.  My Mum still lives in Sedgefield, North East England, but I'm not really in any great hurry to go back there to live, no offense to my Mum but it's just so dreary there!  Will have to take it as it comes I guess! 

Fiona, you have your books in the UK, did you have to do much promoting over there?

 

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Clarea thats Fantastic, keep us up to date about how its all going...as for me. Well I developed more of the story and races that exist in the world. I did a whole section thats further on, and I'm still working on a difficult section. I might sound disjionted but its not really. The part I wrote links in with part I'm having slower progress with, thats because of the detail needed to make it work. I have a tendency to have lots of things happening at once in a story.

Fiona, I'll look into the Sydney writers convention, so far I haven't found any information about it on the net. I'd feel like a an novice in a crowd like that since the I've never been published and still working on my first real story.

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Ebony, I'm going to pipe up here because I know just how you feel. I've been at this writing thing since ... when did we start this? November last year? Before that, all I had ever written were short stories at primary school and joke poems for my friends in high school. I never got a single one of them published, not that I tried. Everyone starts somewhere though, at least that's what I keep telling myself.

Unfortunately you just missed the Sydney writer's festival which was either last week or the week before. Don't feel bad though because there's bound to be other things, plus there'll be another one next year.