Is it when the book is commissioned? When it is actually published? Or when you type the last word? I hope it’s the latter because it certainly feels significant. I’m cock-a-hoop and have been since about 9pm last night when I finished writing Blogging For Happiness. With a huge sigh and a glass of Champagne […]
Grammar, birthday blues and gang behaviour
Things I’ve learned from my children today Pic: It’s for you If one child is having fun winding me up, others will join him. Boy Three has already learned that joining in with his brothers’ high jinks is more fun than, for example, sitting nicely and eating supper. What I can’t find the answer to […]
Write about now they’ve gone and done it
There’s an old joke about two journalists who meet in the pub. One says: “What have you been doing?’The other replies: “Oh, writing my novel.”The first one says: “Yeah. Me neither.” That’s the thing they – we – are all writing ‘the’ novel and waiting to be discovered as a serious writer not just a […]