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1. Twiddle thumbs and whistle tunelessly while surfing around aimlessly on the interweb. 2. Check email for the 50 millionth time. 3. Post pointless comments on other people’s blogs. 4. Finally get to your WIP then waste time trying to think of titles for it. So far – being crap at titles – I have … Continue reading “Top Ten Things to do While Waiting”

My stars for Valentine’s Day: “Change is but a hair’s breadth away. It is so close you can’t even invest in frustration now. True patience is to be waiting as if your lover is about to call from overseas. Encourage the party in your heart.” Okay, I’m not one for horoscopes but it did seem … Continue reading “Gemini, Feb 14th”

It’s official, I seem to have lost my mojo. Have spent the past two weeks staring at my screen, writing a paragraph then deleting it, writing another paragraph then deleting it, rinse, repeat. I guess it’s better to actually write something than nothing at all but when you actually have nothing to show for it? … Continue reading “Writer’s Block”

Still waiting for revisions. You’d think after six months of being on the ‘getting published’ train I would be used to waiting. But no. I’m either going to have to get myself a set of worry beads to fiddle with, drink way more martinis, or have a personality transplant. I’m thinking the martini option sounds … Continue reading “More Wittering While Waiting”

I was thinking about my current wip last night (instead of sleeping. Bad Jackie!) and realised, abruptly, that I had forgotten a vital part of the conflict: the why. What do I mean? Well, my heroine is a very driven lawyer and my hero is a very driven mountain climber. So far so good. But … Continue reading “Missing Something Vital”

Yes, I am impatient. I always have and always will be. Not to mention sensitive to criticism and very up and down emotion-wise (I’m a Gemini so that figures). So really, all things considered, I am very ill suited to writing as a career choice. At the moment I am surfing aimlessly around the net, … Continue reading “Concerning Impatience”

I found an old M&B in my bookshelves a couple of days ago. Old being 1979. It’s even signed by the author, with an inscription that says “to Danny’s friend Charles”. I don’t know if Danny’s friend Charles would ever read this (do guys read M&B? Especially in 1979?) but hey, signed by the author … Continue reading “Modern Heat Circa 1979”

I have been eating far too many chocolate fish lately (AnNZ thing. See Wikipedia). Obsessively some might say. I think it’s because I’m not writing. I’ve had a non-writing week which always makes me very grumpy and always inclined to eat chocolate.I’ve got two WIPs that I’m currently working on at the moment and I … Continue reading “Chocolate Fish”

My chapter is missing. I have emailed Anna to ask her what has happened to it but as she won’t be back in the office till the 30th, I haven’t had an answer yet. This is my contest entry chapter I’m talking about. Don’t they understand that millions of people are waiting with bated breath … Continue reading “Wherefore Art Thou Chapter?”

Yes, I finally did it, I gave my mother my ms to read. Seeing as how she is the orgininal Ashenden, I thought she’d better have a look just in case it actually sees the light of day and on the off chance she didn’t want her name being attached to anything she didn’t like. … Continue reading “Caving in to My Mother”