Blog 65 – Working away at Workshops – Ms Paige Turner tells an intentional fib on each blog. Spot this one and get a free handout sheet on any writing related topic of your choice.
I’ve been out at Missenden Abbey and up to the lovely Amersham Ladies and even in the Creative Ink classes we’ve been doing: ‘Writing Your Life Story’. Writing your life story in six words is an interesting exercise – then develop it into a one hundred and you’ll discover what is most important to you.
We’re all looking forward to former Creative Inker: Jackie Marchant coming to talk about getting her children’s novel ‘I’m Dougal Trump and it’s Not My Fault’ published by PanMacmillan on Thursday 6th June at 11.00am at the Fitzwilliams Centre. You can come too. For free. And you get a coffee and a chocolate biscuit. Email me.
Hot off this blog press is the news that Hodder’s upandcoming author: Gavin Extence will be reading and talking about his debut novel: ‘The Universe Versus Alex Hoods’ – which has received rave reviews in the national papers, next autumn term on Thursday 14th November. Email me if you would like to come. How did I wangle that one? The old girl network is an amazing thing, but let’s not focus on ‘the old’, Selhurst Grammar School for Girls.
Well done to Galit Gibson who won the Synopsis Award at the St Alban’s Literary Festival in April – Galit has been writing this children’s book whilst at Creative Ink. And Fauzia Rahman is having her play – what she wrote at Creative Ink – ‘The Philosopher’s Tale’ performed at the Camden Festival during the first week of August at the Tristam Bates Theatre. So Google and book.
I will catch it – that and a few days up at the Edinburgh Fringe this summer as my mate Flip Webster is doing her show: ‘Women of an Uncertain Age’ at the Gilded Ballroom.
I’ve been doing animation voice overs down at the National Film and Television School and buying new beds and shifting them around the house whilst falling off of stools. I’ve been busy and ready for a lie down if I could find somewhere in my house to do so.
I’d better get a good night’s sleep as Mr Justin Case and I are off tomorrow to see ‘The Jersey Boys’ FOR THE SEVENTH TIME with Miss Trial and Master Mind who have just bought their first home. I need an annual injection of The Four Seasons, so it’s all go. We hope to have a nice meal after.
I’ll end on meals. My great niece, I know, I look too young to have one, told us that Jesus took his disciples to a restaurant for his last supper. We laughed. Quite cross, she said, “But it was a very good restaurant.”
PS Does anyone know of any good dressing table stool restorers?
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This may not be a fib, but it’s Gilded BALLOON not Gilded Ballroom!