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- Anita Burgh
- I am a writer - late developer since I wasn't published until I was 50. I have now written 23 novels, numerous short stories and articles.
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Wednesday 17 August 2011
My apologies for being away for so long. There are several reasons. The first was that I felt I had nothing more
to say about writing. There are so many
blogs around that I knew I would not be missed and I cannot see the point of
just writing for writings sake or to fill up a blog - and we all know blogs
like that!
So what have I been up to.
I finished my new novel and I am in the process, a bit slow, to edit
it. My agent suggested odd changes and
tweeks here and there. I doubt I’ll ever
learn for when I sent it off I KNEW there were weak areas but was too idle to
do anything about it. Of course my agent
picked up on the self-same parts. Inner voice,
as I’ve said before, is the best tool we have.
Don’t be like me, listen!
There was another factor.
You can get fed up with a novel. I
seem to have been writing this one for ever.
I would start it, work for a week or two and then go off on a tangent
and do something else and then when I went back to the work in hand I found I had
forgetten what I’d done and have to reread and redo. And it gets boring. When that happens I have to put it away again
for the simple reason that when feeling such emotions I risk conveying it in my
writing and thus to my readers and that would never do.
The distractions have been quite big ones. Letting people know that “Sex, Lies and
Parkinson’s” the documentary I helped with was to be shown on Channel 4. It is done.
The reactions were strong, those who liked it were very keen, those who
didn’t were evangelical in their disapproval.
The aim was to raise the public’s awareness that young people can get
Parkinson’s too, it isn’t just old people who suffer. Vicki, whose story it was, has had a lot of
stick, since she told of her sexual and monetary problems, caused by her
medication, with honesty and openness. I admire her it took courage to speak so.
I took a writing course at Chez Castillon, in the
Dordogne. www.chez-castillon.com What a
week that was! It is a magic place and I
cried when I left and longed to stay and to go back.
The other distraction has been getting my backlist up on
Kindle. I gave up in the end, beaten by
technology and instructions which seemed to make it worse. Fortunately I was told of a wonderful Indian
company who are doing it for me.
Apart from my novel - working title “Illusions” - I am
working on a How to book; a collection of articles I’ve written over the years;
last, my autobiography. I’m busy!
Publishing is having one of its periodic panic attacks. Serves them right this time. With Kindle and Smashwords etc. we can
publish our own. I shall certainly have
a bash at it.
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Good to see you back...and good to know that you too get tired of your novel!
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Please, please hurry up with your biography - it sounds fascinating.
ReplyDeleteWelcome, back. Phew, you've been busy!
ReplyDeleteI do agree about that inner voice. I hear mine telling me the ending is rushed or parts of the book are flat. Because it's too much effort to think about how to rectify the matter, I ignore it. Then, as you say, my editor sends it back...
Can't wait to add your earlier books to my ebook library. I'm looking forward to nostalgic re reading.
ReplyDeleteAny idea when they are likely to be available ?
I was on Croatia this past week and I needed a new novel. I went to the a shop that I was at the following day because I knew the young lady spoke English. I told her I would give her my book if she had any books in English available. She gave me your book, The House at Harcourt. I could not put it down! I loved it...thank you for a wonderful story :)
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