Wow, time to write a blog entry!

Apologies to regular readers. The past couple of weeks have been busy - well busy for me, that is, especially compared to my last entry.

The following day - Tuesday 11th, I met a fellow writer for coffee in Woking, and we set about deciding it was about time we got really committed to writing - ie making a living. We now meet three times a week and get two 90 minute writing sessions in per meeting, as well as about an hour or so of writing related discussion, reading etc. We are not ‘collaborating’ as such (though the option is there I suppose) , just commit to spend the time writing on the various projects we have.

We have committed to a six week trial program of Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11.30am to 4.30pm. We meet in each others houses and do each other lunch, then on Thursdays we go into Woking and work in the library or the new Lightbox museum. (Designed by the Architects who did the London Eye and very pleasant.) We refer to these days as ‘going to work’ and having just finished our 3rd week together I must say the benefits have been enormous! I have been working on my play and my colleague has been working on a children’s novel for a competition. We’ll both shortly start writing loads of short stories to submit to various women’s magazines as well as take on any writing projects for anyone willing to pay the going rate!

Over the past couple of weeks I have been working hard on my play and on Wednesday night I finished it and printed out the first full proper draft. With two acts of 60 and 50 minutes, it is gripping stuff; a contemporary piece, quite unlike anything I have done before, and my first proper full length play. I’m very proud of it. I have just handed it over to my friend Amanda from the Woking Writers’ Circle who has been eagerly awaiting to proof-read it for me. The play is called Kath and Kin and I am hoping to hold a reading of it at the end of October.
 

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