May and June have seen its ups and down in my writing life. One story progressing slowly, one almost stopped all together and another is getting ready to be published.
I’ve continued writing my story about Vincent van Gogh – or to be more precise, about an artist consumed by his work and ambition to produce something of beauty and essence. It’s meandering a lot. I thought I had it clear enough in my head what kind of story I wanted to tell but as I’m writing it, I’m very much feeling my way forward. It’s a bit like when there’s a power cut and you’re trying to find your way to where you might have a candle.
I got completely stuck with my magical realism story. I had feedback that the order of scenes and chapters weren’t quite working and got so overwhelmed by trying to work out a better structure that I ended up putting the entire reordering on hold. I even considered taking out all flashbacks from the story. I’m still editing and I’m still hoping to be able to find an agent for this story, sooner rather than later, but that plan seems to have been delayed.
On a more positive note, I’ve had my poetry novella professionally proofread and I’m now in the finishing phase of preparing this story for self-publication. Watch this space. I hope to publish What Good Could Grow Here within the next couple of weeks. Below is the cover for those who missed the cover reveal I had in the beginning of June.
I’m taking up submitting my poetry to competitions again. I’ve had a hiatus for a few years where I just couldn’t be bothered. As it is, I have a few poems that are too long to be part of my Poetry Sunday updates on Instagram but that I really like. I therefore have two competitions coming up that I will be submitting to. Wish me luck.
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