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Moved
back to Forster for a week, perhaps a fortnight. Sun bright, warm wind, whales
are spouting in the bay and multicoloured parrots fly by the balcony. I’m
concentrating on my writing for a day. I checked off my e-mails this morning
while sitting on the balcony dressed only in shorts and tee shirt. In contrast,
I hear it is snowing back in England, but can’t quite believe it.
There
is a whisper of work planned for today. A fence needs oil/varnishing – no one
can decide on the correct term, except to say that we are not painting it! It’s
a six-foot high fence, and there’s a lot of it. The younger elements of the
party think it’ll be a breeze, and done by lunch time. I harbour severe doubts over
this time scale, but we shall see. There are four of us, after all.
I am
slowly getting back to writing. There has been so much going on (incuding a second
visit to the Cloudy Bay Fish restaurant where we drank the Pelourus as well as
the Sauvignon Blanc on the excuse that it is my birthday next week) that I haven’t
done much on my two wips, but I’m ready to start on chapter 24 of Matho’s
story. Not that I know what’s going to happen, which is worrying. This is the
first time I’ve been writing without an outline plan to follow, and I don’t
think I’ll ever try it again as the writing flow, if I dare call it that, slows
while I puzzle over the next happenings. I fear that sometimes I’ve gone
off-line a wee bit, and there will be some major cutting when I get to a second
draft. But it’s all part of the great learning curve that is fiction writing!
I
finished The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris last night and thoroughly enjoyed
it. I don’t think I ever realised when I read Chocolat that there was magic
afoot, but it was a long time ago. Peaches for Monsieur le Cure didn’t feature
it much either, but Lollipop Shoes is full of it. The writing style was a real
pleasure, and I should study it for what it can teach me.
DH has
just popped in to tell me there’s a pod of dolphins in the bay and people are
swimming with them! Wow! Must go see!
