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Category Archives: General Wittering
I’ll have a P please Bob
A small envelope arrived today with a new p key for my knackered keyboard.
It fits.
Hoorah!
No more pinky blisters…
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The Value of Re-reading…
Hmm… here I am formatting my book for print, ordering actual bound copies to look at and evaluate and thinking that I am pretty much finished when I discover a massive and pointless continuity error…
I’d never seen it before so I’m delighted (not to mention relieved) to have found it now. I suspect the moral of this story is that you can never proof read your stuff enough times.
On a completely different subject, the p key on my computer has broken. It still types, but the plastic lid won’t stay on so I have to put my pinkie directly onto the strange squishy rubbery mechanism… I guess the moral of this story is not to put your computer on the ground so your mobile phone falls out of your pocket onto the keyboard when you stand up.
Another small disaster was averted, too, yesterday when scion came rushing through my nice clean house shouting “egg” and juggling a real one from hand to hand – he is one and three quarters so this was… alarming. I did manage to rescue it and get it back into the pantry… I also managed to rescue the three other eggs he had dropped into the cereal box. Luckily none of them broke either… so no eggy cereal and no horrible eggy goop stuck, for ever, between the floor boards in the hall!
Points to the little one for manual dexterity, too, he’d unhooked and opened a wire egg basket and opened a cardboard egg box inside it.
Filed under General Wittering, Good Advice
Kathy Lette says she admires me!
Yeh and even though she doesn’t know who I am, it feels good!
In an interview on the writers and artists yearbook blog she was asked what female novelists she admired and said this:
“All female novelists who are also mothers. We should all just get a Booker Prize for finishing a book.”
The rest of the article is a great read, too – you can find it here but that particular bit made me feel all warm and fuzzy. And next time I am trying to sort out a problem with a plot in my head, while I am trudging up (0r down) the stairs with the latest clean (or dirty) mountain of washing to attend to; followed closely by small, huffing, puffing, scion carrying a large (full) plastic milk carton in each hand (cartons which are making worrying is-that-milk-going-to-stay-put-in-there-or-it-going-to-leak-out gurgly noises) I will think of that and feel part of a weird sisterhood of mother writers!
Mmm… Isn’t that a pip?
So, Kathy Letts thank you, thank you!
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Something Novel…
Yeh, as the title says, my novel!
Terry Pratchett’s right, writing really is the best fun you can have on your own.
Ok so I’ve finally written a book which I don’t wish was written by somebody else, so now to sell it… this blog is here so you can follow me on my journey to literary… um… stardom. Step one will be to find an agent…
Let’s begin.
Filed under General Wittering, Good Advice
M T McGuire Authorholic 