My new blog

Rhian Cahill told me I needed to get out there and create a cyber presence. Although I already have three blogs on Blogger, they are limited and do not allow me the ability to add extra pages as WordPress does, so blog posts get lost to the archives.

So this is my new writing blog, a place where I can give a sneak peek of my writing to the cyber world.

Watch this space for regular excerpts from my (so-far) five complete first drafts of novels, along with the occasional collage poetry, and featured products from my Cafepress store Chickollage.

In June I will be participating in our own version of Nanowrimo, which we have dubbed 50ks in 30 days. ’We’ are a bunch of writers from Romance Writers Australia. The chicken in me keeps wanting to type 30ks in 50 days, but I know that’s wrong – it’s just my inner critic stamping her heels in and making me think I’m not going to reach the goal this time.

But why not?

I’ve ‘won’ Nanowrimo for the last three years, of course I can write 50ks in 30days.  I just need a good idea. Rather than starting from scratch, I am going to pick up a piece that stands at 25k, ‘Hold the Anchovies’ which is based on my adventures as a young naive pizza delivery girl.  A bit of fact, a bit of fiction and a lot of mozarella.

Meanwhile I am editing ‘Diary of the Future’ for submission.  This is a young adult novel about a 16 year old girl who finds a diary that creates the future.  Very cool!  Imagine what you could do with that!  I will put an excerpt on the site shortly.

And so I don’t feel I have any time to spare before June, I am working the first 3 chapters of ’I'm with the Band’ and ‘Beyond Happily Ever After’  (the alternative Cinderella story) for a competition. 

So it’s busy busy busy….but that’s the life of a writer seriously aiming for publication.

You may watch the journey here.