Mornings never seem to have enough time in them for me, even if I get up at 5.30 there is still too much to do at the end of the morning. I am one of those people who works best in the mornings and hardly at all in the afternoon.
So, setting the alarm for six now gives me an extra half an hour to get things done. It still doesn’t always work out though, and today (yesterday as you read this) I am hurrying off a blog so that I can get ahead of myself for tomorrow. An hour getting ready to, and then exercising, is fine, but then another half hour given over to a quick and, let’s face it, often too hurried blog, eats in to the rest of my day. So, blog today, time tomorrow. When the weather is warmer we’ll be up at 5.30 some days in order to get in the sea at 6.00.
As one of my characters in ‘Straight Swap; puts it, when talking about an early start: ‘It is far too early for this time of day.’
And on the ‘Straight Swap’ front, I have been ploughing on in the afternoons – when I can actually get some work done – and have now reached 35,000 words and the end of ‘act one’ as it would be called if it were a film. Let’s say roughly a quarter of the way through a first draft. At this rate it will be 140,000 words long – but that’s okay, I can cut it down in draft two.
Something I did notice about my titles is that they are not always suitable for abbreviating. ‘Symi 85600’ is fine (S8, sounds rather trendy), ‘Carry on up the Kali Strata works, roughly (COUTKS, sounds almost like a bank) and ‘The Judas Inheritance’ as TJI sounds like a TV show at the end of the week. But I will have to be careful with ‘Straight Swap’ (you can work it out for yourself) and we shan’t even think about ‘Shocking The Donkeys.’
And on the subject of books, I need a cover for LH (Lonely House) and I wonder if any of my readers were book cover designers who do that work American lawyers do, you know, where they do it for free? No, seriously, if there are any designers out there who would be interested in giving me a quote for a book cover, please drop me a line – the email’s at the bottom of the main page here, under Contact, or you can PM me through FB. I have ideas. I can send an outline of the book, or even the MS if you don’t mind reading it on a PC or MAC. Thank you!
That’s enough abbreviations for one day. Hope you enjoy the pics today – do you prefer them bigger like yesterday, or smaller around the text like today? You can enlarge them by clicking on them. Any strong thoughts LMK. (Let me know.)
