Welcome to my first blog. I have been meaning to get this started for some time, but it's only today that I decided to crack on and do something about it.
I'm trying to do a job which bores me senseless and write, read, watch films, knit, draw, cook, cycle, walk and stock up the drinks' cabinet at the same time. The writing is the most important one because that's my dream, and I've already got the bones and some chapters of a novel and many short stories/pieces laid down.
Today (apart from the work thing which I will be generally ignoring for the purposes of this blog as it is only interesting in that it gives me ridiculous situations to write about) I did some finalising for my writers' group book launch, which is in just over a week, and I applied for a residential writing workshop in Spain. I sold a copy of the book and I spoke to an old friend who is coming up for the launch.
I keep thinking how my life has changed so dramatically in the past 3 years. I would never have believed that so many things that I despaired about for so long could have been resolved by standing up for myself and making my life my own again.
Outside my little world, I suppose the news is pretty alarmist. Bird Flu, the perceived nuclear threat in Iran, the horrendous state of Iraq for civilians and for our own troops, the continuing presence of good old boys in the White House, and famine, civil war and corruption worldwide, to cover just a small percentage of things there are to worry about. I'm a worrier, and I can't help it.
Hasta manana (where's the tilde?) companeros y amigos
Lennimac
