Pitched the Daily Star with a feature idea yesterday. They liked it. I wrote it. I sent it last night. It's going in tomorrow. Dead fast turn-around and I like it. Even better, they want me to pitch them with more ideas so hopefully, assuming I can come up with some, should have work to distract me.
Had a meeting with the Lovers' Guide and got more work stuff to do for them. Reading through a load of classic erotica to see if there's any we can adapt, which is a good way to spend time.
Am generally reading a lot at the moment; mostly frivolous trashy novels (the literary equivalent to a big tub of ice cream) Just got sent the new Jane Wenham Jones book, Perfect Alibis, which is a top read. I met Jane a couple of years ago when I was working at ABCtales 'cos years back she won a short story competition we got involved with. She's really sweet and has a great job; novelist and wine-bar owner.
I still get dead excited when I meet 'proper writers' - people who've achieved that ultimate ambition of finishing a novel and getting it published (I soooo should finish a novel, even if just to say I have. Cos let's face it, getting a novel actually published is bloody hard work.) Guess that's why I get all kind of star-struck when I meet them. And then ask who their agent is. Thing that's really cool is that so far, whenever I've met a 'proper' (published) writer, they're really up for helping aspiring writers.
Also bought The Primal Urge by Brian Aldiss (about a scientist who creates an 'Emotional Register' that prevents people from hiding any sexual attraction they feel) and De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and other stories cos I love Oscar Wilde and it's the only thing he wrote that I haven't yet read. Cups of tea, chocolate biscuits and a stack of books; always a good way to spend a night.
Posted by emilyd at April 01, 2003 05:51 PM