Thank You and Goodbye :)

Morning dear friends 🙂

I have to warn you, this is one melodramatic post coming your way 🙂 I am shutting down my blog for now. Recently,  I received back my novel draft for Incarnate. The person who proofed it for me, I’m not going to lie, was pretty harsh. Harsh but funny, how does that even work? 🙂 Anyway, because I am an over emotional obsessive wreck my heart pretty much ended up like the picture I have added above. Oh I can tell you, it was the end of the World last night, nothing would ever be the same again etc. 🙂 I am such a drama queen 🙂

BUT… I could see the value of every single point he said. I don’t know if you’ve ever been in that situation but when someone points out the flaws in something you’ve spent years loving and doing, it’s heart-breaking but it can open your eyes to points that you were just too blind to see. I hold no grudge against the person that proof read my work. He has shown me that I need to stop and take a look at the direction my writing is going 🙂

SO… I have decided I am going back to basics. I am going to put Incarnate aside and concentrate on improving my writing as a whole. I may go back to it at a later date. There is no way I can stop completely as I just love writing too much. However, I need to research, practice, do something to improve myself. I can’t have distractions from this so I am shutting my blog and closing my twitter account so that I can work solely on something new and focus on that completely. They will be shut tonight. In the mean time I will be posting a sci-fi short story I recently submitted to an anthology that got rejected (no shock there then lol) to make sure it is here for when I come back… if I come back 🙂

Thank you for all your love and support and go see J. S. Collyer, she rocks 🙂

Wow, Thank You So Much <3 <3 <3

Evening lovely readers 🙂

The post today is just to say thank you so much to everyone who has been kind enough to follow my blog. I have now hit and gone over the one hundred mark. I can’t even begin to tell you how much this means to me. I don’t consider myself a writer, I merely do what I’m passionate about and vent about it along the way 🙂 I am so grateful I have found so many people that put up with my creative attempts and childish complaining 🙂 If I could meet you all I would buy you cake but since I can’t this one will have to do…

On Friday there will be a special #FlashFriday and an attempt at a poem (run now lol) to show how grateful I am. I hope to do justice to your interest in the future and never let you down 🙂 Oh, and my post about active voice use is coming I promise but I was a bit naughty and had a date night with my fiancé yesterday (hence no post postage) and I just had to thank everyone today so it will now come tomorrow I promise 🙂

Thank you 🙂

Thank you Jex!

Evening lovely readers 🙂

No original post today I’m sorry as I’m contending with a poorly baby, a poorly me and the need to carry on rewriting my novel 🙂 However I couldn’t resist reblogging this post from an exceptional writer. It’s about one of my best friends and my writing hero, J. S. Collyer. Helena succinctly captures all the excellent qualities of Jex and greatly portrays the kind of character she has. Helena herself is an excellent writer, a fabulous person and someone who inspires me to better my writing. Check out these fabulous writers now 🙂

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Thank you, J.S. Collyer, known to me as Jex, and so that’s what I’m going to call her.

J.S. Collyer is a force of nature, and to say that the whole reason that I’m actually submitting my writing for publication is in great part due to her urging is no exaggeration.

Jex was kind enough to go mad blitz with promoting the Cover Reveal for Memoirs of a Dilettante yesterday, flooding her Twitter feed with anticipatory tweets and then finally the big post reveal.

I like to think of Jex as the ANTI-Annie Wilkes. And if you don’t get that reference, you need to read a book, or watch a movie starring Kathy Bates — Misery.

Annie Wilkes is an obsessed fan who, when fate drops her favourite writer at her doorstep, crippled due to a car crash in the deep winter, keeps him captive and all to herself…

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Good evening 🙂

This is just a short post to say thank you to those that follow me, and those that take the time to read my posts, for your support and guidance. I’ve now passed the milestone of fifty blogs that are following mine and I thank you for that and can only hope that I repay the same dedication for your own work 🙂

I haven’t had chance to post anything recently as I had an early Christmas present which has taken me away from my writing for a while. I gave birth to my baby girl a month earlier than I expected to so I have been ecstatically getting used to motherhood 🙂 However as with many a writer the pull of literature is just far too strong; I am back to my novel and I have just confirmed a short story with the epic Dagda Publishing to be entered into their new anthology. I have to say my life is pretty good right now 🙂

Normal posting service shall resume very soon… 🙂