Week 3: Feedback, problems and plans

I was off to a good start, wasn’t I? Then Easter came and I had five days off with my husband. I used the time to catch up on my real-world assignments, as in the assignments for my university course which I am attempting while also doing a writing course and looking after Little Squiggle.…

Week 2: Chapter 1 down.

I’ve finished the first chapter, hurrah! I tweaked it a little bit, as I mentioned in a previous post, so that it led straight into the action and leaves you with a little cliffhanger at the end. The cliffhanger’s a little obvious to the reader given the paranormal theme of the story, but the protagonist…

Tadaaaah!

760 words today. I’m on fire. I haven’t gotten to my Sydney Writer’s work yet, I spent all day in and out of the x-ray/ultrasound clinic and then for another hour or so at the doctors. The verdict – cholecystectomy (fancy word meaning cutting out my gallbladder). Very unimpressed with the verdict, but given the…

Terrible Start!

I have had a terrible start to my goal this weekend. I woke up at 4am Saturday with the most excrutiating back pain, which then spread through my ribs and stomach. This wasn’t the first time I’d experienced this, but it was by far the most painful. I’d depleted my drug cabinet last time and…