The forecasters got it right, for once; woke up to rain, which hasn’t let up all day. Excellent excuse for sitting indoors writing.
I’m just about keeping up with my NanoWrimo count, but my OU writing group has a challenge going for a 500 word flash competition. Sadly, the piece of mine they liked has been accepted for publication in an OU shorts anthology, so I spent the day writing another.
Just to gee me up a bit, the group had a Zoom meeting scheduled for this afternoon. We agreed to meet up in person after we graduated from the OU’s creative writing courses, and have met most of the Novembers since. This year, the shared house booking was cancelled and we met seven times on Zoom instead, catching up on what each other has been doing and just chatting.
Every year we finish with a round up of what we plan to do in the next twelve months; every year, the first session is the reading of last year’s writing promises followed by the question; ‘So… how did you do?’ It’s a great way to get me writing, and to get me time to write.
I finished the 500 word piece and posted it for others to give feedback on – important, as they catch bits that don’t work, mistakes that I’ve missed. I commented on the work others have posted, too. Now I get time to put mine in for the competition, and to get working on the next instalment of my Nano project. Due to be raining even harder tomorrow. Excellent.
Julia Chalkley 