Long time coming

I can only apologise. This blog has been a long time coming to say the least. Over the last few months I have found myself in a lull. I have finished one novel and am still attempting to get it published, fingers crossed. I have done the background work on novel number two and have started writing but this is happening in fits and starts. I don't know why but for some strange reason I just haven't been able to get movtivated.

In the mean time I have been writing my personal journal to try and keep the writing up in some form or another. This seems to have worked to a certain extent. Even though I am not writing my novel everyday but my interest in short stories (my first love) has been rekindled as an idea came to me. The first one I have sent off to a woman's magazine only today. Not only have I don't that but I have come up with a second in what has now become a small series. This one I have written (I like to write long hand and then type up) and am in the process of typing up, with the idea for a third short story in my head. All along a similar vein, and so here is hoping to something happening. If my interest in my short stories has been re-ignited, then maybe the writing of the second novel will pick up pace. I will be forever living in hope of that one.

With work calling me back to the white page I best go and try and get this next short story finished and make sure I have backed it up. Until next time.

Novel Number Two

How many times in the three and a bit years I have been doing the WB course has that lack of self confidence kicked in? Many I can assure you, and it has done it again. This you may have noticed, fellow bloggers, in my last blog.

Now thankfully the lack of self confidence has now gone and things seem to be getting back on track again. How do I know this? I have started novel number two.

Novel number one has been worked to within an inch of it's life, to say the least, and after a visit to the local library to use their copy of the Writers and Artists Yearbook so I could get a list of agents I have started the task of sending out my work in the hope that an agent will like what they see and decide to take me on as a client. I live in hope with fingers, toes, arms and legs all crossed. But to stop my nerves from kicking in and my self confidence plummeting into the depths I have started the second book in my trilogy. The background work has been done, new characters profiled (must get the profiles of the returning characters out of the filing system), scenes and chapters typed and printed, and today pen got put together and the second novel has begun. A day to remember although if the last book is anything to go by it will soon become and dim and distant memory.

And so to the filing box before I forget and pull out those profiles I desperately need. I hope that I will hear from you all soon.

My Very First Blog

I never thought the day where I would follow in the footsteps of so many others and start a blog. But here I am, doing just that. If it hadn't been for so many others I wouldn't have had the courage to do so myself.

I better introduce myself. My name 'Sunday name' is Christina but I am Chris to many of my friends and family.

My hopes for this blog? For it to follow me on my journey through my writing experiences, whatever they may be and for any other experiences which may come along in this journey of mine.