Postcard from Plymouth

At the end of January, I sent off my PLUGGED manuscript to a friend of a friend- basically a contact in publishing- one of those great and rare things. Plugged being the most complete, I feel, works I've done so far, I thought that would be the best text to get off to her. Hopefully she's reading it now. And I can see her reading it, vizualizing her loving it and...

Next week I'm starting going to a writer's circle in Plymstock, a little out of the way place on the outskirts of Plymouth. This is the second time I've tried it, but hopefully I'll stick at it this time. Like Chuck Palahniuk, author of FIGHT CLUB, suggests on his website, it's very good and productive to read your work out, giving you the chance to hear your work and let others judge it too. Hopefully I'll get some good and constructive criticism.

I'll probably take along pages of my latest project, which I've written while following the Chuck Palahnuik school of writing. I'm over half way through as I think it's going to be about two hundred pages long probably.

One of my closest friends recently left old England for New Zealand, which I feel is a very brave move, especially for her. I hope she'll have plenty of stories to tell when she gets back, so basically I can steal them for my next novel. After all, she's been in a lot of my books already. So Good luck to her.

Well, I've been away for a bit, trying to get lots of things done and I've got my new life in Plymouth settled. I feel good. My writings going well. If you're a writer, hope yours is too.

Till next time,

M. Yarwood