Candice: I have to admit to not feeling inspired today while trying to come up with ideas to blog about. Keeping it fresh for our lovely readers each week means that by Friday I’m starting to rack my brains for ideas, looking for news stories and by Sunday really dredging through anything to come up with something interesting to write about. You guys don’t want total tosh, you want something about writing!
I have to admit I have quite a good excuse this week. On Friday I had a last minute call to see if I could do Casualty on Saturday, down in Cardiff. Without checking the weather forecast I said yes. I havent done any extras work this year so fancied a day out. Anyway, got up at 5.30am on Saturday to find my car 3 inches deep in snow. Off I went for my 110 mile drive, let us just say there were points where my heart was in my mouth as the traction control kicked in when I was slipping on snow. After all that rushing, they didn’t use me until 5pm!
Had an interesting lunch break though, as they are currently filming Doctor Who at the same studio, so we lunched with some weird and wonderful creatures. I shall look forward to seeing that episode!
Anyway, that plus now having a lovely cold means that my head is not in the right place for inspiration. However, its got to get there by Friday as Phil and I have booked a writing day, utilising the Easter weekend and the fact the other half is not around. And we plan to use it to tackle ‘The Book’. Obviously said novel has been languishing in the back of a cupboard, and our minds, for over a year while we try to find inspiration to work out how to make it from good to great. Once done we can start sending it out to Agents again, but we need to knuckle down to it. Both Phil and I have ideas floating around in our heads but we need to sit down with a blank sheet of paper and give it one more go. I’m excited by the prospect but also daunted as this is the ‘big’ thing, the thing that we think might get us somewhere, but is just frustrating as no one has picked it up yet. Patience is not one of my virtues.
So here’s to lots of Beecham cold and flu tablets and hopefully a clear head on Friday.
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