Monday was Nelson Anniversary and Friday is Waitangi Day, so it is a short week for us, though it is also a busy one!
We went camping over the long weekend, and I got badly sunburnt between my breasts. Cyree, Elesha and I went tubing down the Wangapeka, it was wicked fun! I had so much fun I didn’t really want to come home!
Billy went to Playcentre on Tuesday, I looked at a claim today, had a visit from Michelle, going walking tomorrow with Belinda, packing up and going camping tomorrow night. Short and sweet.
It is a big week for writing, I have been critiquing a story for a guy in America. It is good, I am enjoying it, but it is slow, it needs to move along a bit more. But it is giving me a good insight into critiquing my own. I have put the prologue and first chapter in of the Journey Home to see what kind of a response I get. Hopefully it is positive, because if they like it, I think I will try and get it into Raider Publishing, because I like where it is.
I have signed up for a writing course, which started this week too. This week is orientation, next week we start with the actual writing, which is going to be interesting, I am looking forward to learning some new things.
I have also been trying to edit the Quest, but I seem to have run aground with it. I want to get it done, but I feel like I need Michelle or someone else with me on it.
I am feeling creative at the moment, and stymied at the same time, I can’t seem to tap into those creative juices, I keep trying though in the hopes that something will break through. I have started a short story, which is going no where fast. It sounds good in theory, but it is fast turning into something dark and sinister and its not where I want it to go, but I am not sure how to bring it back, resurrect it, so to speak. I wish I could talk to Kerry about my writing, but he doesn’t really want to know. I so desperately want to share my passion with him, but he doesn’t want to be the “one to tell me that my writing sucks.” But what if it doesn’t suck? What if it is actually quite good? He reckons he will read it once it is published, but what if he still thinks it sucks… Vicious cycle :o)