Just time for a quickie

Day 177

I have only a moment. Steve is starting his college essay so I will not get more than a glimpse of this keyboard for some time. Another night of insomnia, so when I woke this morning I was hormonal and starving hungry. Let it be known, that in a house with no food whatsoever, a crisp and coleslaw sandwich actually does the trick.

Am very excited at the moment, and busy reading books lent to me by my friend Bex. In theory, we may write a book together, and are starting to thrash out ideas and concepts with each other. My only concern is not how different our writing styles are, because they are not so dissimilar as to make it unworkable, but that the type of book we might each want to write could be polar opposites of each other.

She has already written a kids book which languishes in a drawer, and I have 60% of one in hand, and that is our best work. Perhaps that is where we should be headed as it would appear to be our strong suit. However, the books she is lending me are from quite different genres.

One was a glorious piece of chick lit (which I never read) called 'Twenties Girl' by the woman who did 'Confessions of shopaholic' (can't remember her name), and I loved it (will actually look for more like that). Would be very happy to write that but I'm nowhere near good enough.

The other is about thirty to forty something women with kids, on holiday together, and it's ok, but I wouldn't want to read it again (not like 'The Great Gatsby', for instance), and I would definitely bore myself rigid if I tried to write it.

This whole episode has renewed my interest in getting on with my half done kids book though. I had put it aside while I concentrated on the picture books, but as they're not moving at the moment, I might as well put them on hold and crack on with this instead. It will give me something meatier (and harder) than this blog to practice on, while Bex and I decide on our novel.

Small matter of needing to be able to get at the computer though, (sigh).