Just a quick blog, as I am working against the clock to try to get a freelance edit finished by the end of today (Sunday), so I can get onto the next thing...I always seem to have more things to do than I have time for, but I kind of like it that way. Nothing worse than having nothing to do! I have been lucky (in a way) over the last six months or so that my husband has been building a boat and so hasn't been around much at weekends or in the evenings, which has given me lots of time to freelance and write. The boat is nearly finished and it will be a bit strange (in a good way!) to have him around again. In the meantime, I have to make hay while the sun shines!
Had a good writing day on Friday - still slow progress as I am in a descriptive phase where I am having to check lots of historical details, but I am nearly out of that section and back onto the fully made-up, emotional stuff. It has been fun though, and I feel confident about where I'm going and how it's progressing.
Did a Writers in Schools visit this week too, to a group from Auckland Middle School, at the Parnell Library. As usual, I'm not sure whether they took in anything I said - teenagers are very hard to read - but the teachers seemed to enjoy it! Scored a nice box of chocolates, too :-)
Recent reading
Still going on The Happy Isles; Paul Theroux still isn't happy! I have to write an 800-word critical commentary on this next week for my Massey paper - will be interesting!
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