I have moved flats this weekend so life is in chaos in a good way 😉 However the blogging has taken a hit, especially as my wireless not working – I resorted to buying an ethernet cable today as opposed to arguing with O2 wireless!
I am loving though the views of sunsets from my new balcony and I look at the lit up Post Office Tower with the delight of a farmer seeing his new bull. I have really come to realise how much of a town girl I am. I love walking home through Soho and Covent Garden; the crazies, the drunks, even the cobblestones that catch my heels, snapping at them like little mice.
It is good for me this move though, somehow despite my cat having a seizure today ;-(( I also managed to dig out my first novel (it is on its 5th draft) and has never been sent anywhere bar I think three friends. There was a Marie Claire contemporary women’s fiction competition wanting the first 6000 words and then an outline of the rest. Well I have the entire 89,000 word novel completed. I started it in 2008 during a NaNoWriMo (National Novel writing month) where people across the world all aim to write 50,000 words in a month so 1667 words per day. I started on the 11th November when I had the thought for a novel but then in googling how many words is a novel stumbled across NaNoWriMo. Since then I have redrafted it twice and the front end 3 more times.
I wasn’t sure which front end to send the ‘riskier’ one in my eyes or the original starting point. But then I remembered Niki Flacks, the acting coach saying to me ‘acting is a risky business’ so thus I thought I need to do what feels better for me. So I wrote a 2 page synopsis, sent the first 6000 words and pressed the send button. It was today or never, the deadline was immutable. A little like Saturday when mid packing I was asked to be in a short so somehow found 8 hours to film a short with Neil Barrett, below is my ‘film family’ NOTE this is fake, I am neither married nor have kids but guess this pic proves why people keep casting me as a mum!
My first ever podcast interview was with Jason Hewitt, the about to be published author with a huge 2 book deal for Spring 2014 and the advice that really stuck with me was ‘You have got to hit send’. So I did, mid learning The Seagull and watching over my very ill cat, I threw something together and kicked it out the door.
Post on the superpowers of deadlines
I am also aware that I have this weekend my second coaching session with Ryan Lock and what with the move, packing, unpacking, filming and learning scripts I have not done anywhere near enough work there ahead of our next live coaching session. He sending me gentle emails re how I am doing and about our next session. Basically he is being a brilliant coach but I have a very full plate, I know though I will pull some rabbits out the bag for him 😉 I have to.
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Podcast coachins session on how to start promoting yourself and stop holding yourself back
Tags: Catch-22, Chehkov, Coaching, Covent Garden, Creative writing, Fiction, Fiction writing, How Many Words, Jason Hewiit, Jason Hewitt, Literature, Marie Claire, Marysia, Neil Barrett, Niki Flacks, Novel, O2, Post Office Tower, Ryan Lock, The Seagull, Writers
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