Friday, 29 May 2009
STROPPY AUTHOR'S BLOG
I bring you a blog that I like, partly because a "stroppy author" sounds as though she would get on very well with a "crabbit old bat". I feel we could share many glasses of wine and bars of chocolate together and still not finish being stroppy and crabbit.
So, here it is: The Stroppy Author's Guide to Publishing.
Her words of stroppy wisdom are directed at those of you who are either published (but still confused - and this will apply for a very long time after publication, perhaps even for ever) or on the verge of being so (many of you), or keen to know how to deal with it if you were. And that should include all of you, because it is never too early to learn, though it is sometimes too late. Or at least later than it might more happily have been.
Spurred on by the growing pressure from my blog readers (bleeders? breeders?) to impress them with my boots if ever I am spotted in public, I was going to go boot-hunting today, following the tantalising advice of Barb, but it's so sunny that instead I am going to have to expose my legs in the garden. And if that is not a sufficiently frightening thought to keep you all firmly indoors working on your WIP, I don't know what is.
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Doing over as in shopping, there's not going to be a raid or anything!
Thanks for that link, seems like an interesting and useful blog.
I'm doing over Princes Street tomorrow, so I will keep my eye out for any boots that might interest you.
Great link - thanks.
Hope you didn't burn out there today. It was too hot for my liking - I wilted in the shade with my factor 50.
Barb - I'll look out for you (but I won't be wearing boots in this heat) and I will be more likely to be in John Lewis not on crummy Princes St.
Suzanne - amazing, wasn't it? DON'T COMPLAIN!
Speaking of boots, I spent the day in wellies clearing out the courtyard. And yes, I was sweltering!
Thanks for the link, by the way, Mrs Morgan. Lovely blog.
Great link! What I helpful blog! I clicked to take a quick look and ended up reading three incredibly helpful posts before I could make my way back here. Thanks, Nicola!
By the way: Hi, I'm Emily and I've never commented before, but I love your blog and read it daily.
Yikes, Nicola ... you can't CANCEL Thursday. That's MY launch party. Ho about we just cancel the weekend instead?
Have sticky W on laptop keyboard ... makes for interesting posts, especially on Titter, oops, tWitter.
Anyway, I meant to say "hoW about we just ..."
Sorry, Maggie - if only I'd known about Thursday, I wouldn't have cancelled it. I'll see what I can do - it may not be too late. Hey, maybe I should have a section for "Publication Days of Readers' Books"??
GOOD LUCK with your book and enjoy the launch!!
Emily - welcome - very glad you revealed yourself and glad you like the blog. Good luck with your writing!
Thank you, Nicola :-) I hope we can drink wine and eat chocolate and be crabbit/stroppy together. If I'd known you were in London, I'd have invited you to my party at Faber on Friday (just gone) and we could have practised. I've got several pairs of cool boots - I'll post a photo and you can decide if they pass muster and we can do boot-wearing, wine-drinking stropping and crabbing sometime soon :-)
Anne - that's a lovely idea. But I don't think it would be ok for you to be stroppy at your own launch. You have to be sweetness and light (even when, as there occasionally is, there is something stropworthy going on inside). Any other time though and I will be delighted to practise with you. Yay for your new book, btw!
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same and still retain the ability to function...One should, for example, see that things are hopeless yet be determined to make them otherwise." ---F. Scott Fitzgerald
joesanchez - that's a quote I often use, actually, but can you elucidate as to why you've quoted it here?!! I'm intrigued. Unless you are simply sharing your general wisdom?
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