Tuesday 2 February 2010

As experiments go...

That was a good one.

Being ill disciplined and chaotic, I have always found excuses for not doing the hard jobs. Pink jobs yes, hard jobs no. So, while the house runs relatively smoothly and laundry logs and lunch get done, the real work never does. And the real job is to write a ditzy novel that tells a funny, contemporary tale of love, with an edge.

Forty posts wasn't so hard. I managed half an hour a day, just about. If I employ a cleaner I can't stand the sight of, for two hours a day and lock myself away in the drawing room with my dongle while she cleans, I will either land up with a very tidy drawing room and desk, or something to work on.

So that's the end of the blogs. I hope I can bring you something a bit more structured in due course. And finally, maybe, achieve something, apart from my lovely children and tidy house and garden and the oaccasional well presented meal containing all the major food groups, that I can be proud of. You never know.

Louis, thank you. Thank you for asking me to do this. I notice the quid pro quo didn't go so well, Gentleman Snapper!

8 comments:

  1. I will miss your blog Lucy but look forward with anticipation to reading extracts from your novel if you'll allow me that is. :-) & :-(

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  2. I will give you a well earned cameo role Neil, and we'll talk to the director and see if we can get you to play it!

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  3. No, you haven't done 40. 14 in 2009 , 23 in January and two in feb = 39. So please, give us one more!

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  4. No! Don't stop now. Can't you do both? Or a weekly blog instead of daily? How are we going to know that you are actually getting on with writing the novel if you don't blog?

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  5. Bugger!

    I don't think you should stop. It's clearly catharsis. And selfishly, fun to read! :-)

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  6. That's a great shame and your scribblings will be missed, however we all look forward to the novel!

    PS I think Clare above has a point... you could be using this as a cover for general slacking!

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  7. I think you should keep doing these on an occasional basis too... For once I agree with Ken.

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  8. That never happened before! Are you feeling alright, Louis?

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