I've been busy, Graduating, Job getting and trying to make out like I'm a responsible adult. The last one being the hardest of course.
I've also been busy cracking on with realising a life long dream. Writing a novel/book. In my last term of Uni I was finally struck with the lightening bolt of inspiration. It took long enough. So I wandered into the Union shop and picked up a large black notebook, which I imaginatively named "The Big Black Book", and started scratching out my idea. And idea that grew into a world, a world that I then had to shelve because Exams and job hunting then became a thing I had to worry about.
3 1/2 chapters later I'm still going. Its not easy, sometimes it's not fun because translating what's in your head on to the page is really hard when you can't get the words right, but there's an immense feeling of satisfaction when you get it right. The only problem is that to get any idea of how good it is you have to A) be brave enough to let other people read it (because they might really hate it) and B) have some really honest friends, brutally honest, because if it is really rubbish then as heartbreaking as that might be it's time to A) give up, B) start again or C) Serious rewrites.
So far I've no need for A, B or C.
I'm about 4/5 chapters in at the moment and working hard. I might post a few snippets on here when I'm further along with the manuscript, as well as character profiles and the like if people would find that interesting. If any arty types want to draw any of the things in the book at all, I'd love it. I can't draw myself, and seeing characters come to life outside the page is always fun.
Anyway that's what I'm up to other than being a Teaching Assistant whose maths skills are slowly improving.
Gosh actual real world work is hard. Getting up in the morning is even harder and being a professional sensible adult? AHAHAHAHAHAHA. It's exceptionally difficult.
It's quite hard remembering that you're not a kid any more, and that you're not supposed to laugh at their antics when they're playing up in class, because they're being disrespectful.
Gosh.
Anyway till sooner rather than later,
Beth xxx
