 At 82,000 words of my 90,000 target, I’m fast approaching the end of book3. My heroine is about to confront the source of her problems and deal with her definitively. And she’s going to save the day. Obviously. The knitting is nearly knitted. The pudding is nearly boiled. But it’s almost unbearable. I want to read the end of the story.
But there’s one snag.
I have to write it.
This is the moment to check my time-line grid, to bring in the clues I scattered earlier, to scoop up the floundering stubs of sub-plots. In this book, the last of a trilogy, I’ve been particularly rotten to my heroine; she’s lost a lot – her man, her grandmother and counsellor, the job she loved, her trust and her confidence. She’s been forced to admit she has to ask others for help, even those younger and with less experience. She’s has to get through some terrible stuff by herself and in patches of very shifting sand.
But her loyal friends have stood by her, she’s battled on, she’s persisted and learned a lot along the way.
Then I’ll take a day off.
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Mitchell and Webb’s portrayal of an author discussing his oeuvre with a literary agent.
This was tweeted by Jonny Geller of the famous Curtis Brown agency .
Tears streamed down my face from beginning to end.
Of depression? Or frustration? No, of laughter.
I hope.
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 I visited the Museum of London last weekend, something I hadn’t done for several years. The displays are very attractive, well-labelled and intelligently set out. Rooms had been reconstructed painstakingly following decoration and description from original sites or authors, but the artefacts in them are original.
(Photos taken on my phone, so apologies for the quality)
Two other visitors were fascinated by a map of the Roman Empire at its height but were troubled by the name Pannonia. Was that modern day Bulgaria, they asked each other? Unable to stop myself, I stepped in and murmured it was Hungary and next door Noricum was more or less Austria. Other remarks around me confirmed my suspicion that neither history nor geography is taught well these days.
But the museum was full, so people are taking the initiative themselves to find out. And enjoying themselves in the process.
And a great excuse for me under the heading ‘research’.
2016 update:
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At 82,000 words of my 90,000 target, I’m fast approaching the end of book3. My heroine is about to confront the source of her problems and deal with her definitively. And she’s going to save the day. Obviously. The knitting is nearly knitted. The pudding is nearly boiled. But it’s almost unbearable. I want to read the end of the story.
