I am very aware it is now March and I dropped off the face of the earth! Sorry! There's a lot been happening. Work's been a bit bonkers because we've had our annual external auditors attending the offices. That's the super boring reason.
A more interesting distraction has been reading Fourth Wing. Not the best fantasy I've ever read but it was easy reading. It was finished in 2 days. Unfortuantely I've also been lent books 2 and 3 and been told categorically I also need to read those to share in the pain my friend went through when reading it themselves.
The more exciting reason I disappeared though, is because - and I don't know if I've mentioned this before or not? - I've been writing. I've always done it as a hobby and it was mostly fanfics in my teens and twenties. Back half of last year I decided to actually take a stab at writing my own, and get some of those crazy ideas out of my head and onto paper!
I've spent the last couple of weeks working on a zero draft! Which I've finally finished! 👏
I now have the super fun job of naming characters, working out the world "rules" so I don't contradict myself, and going back through and unpicking plot holes - which I know are there, I skipped over fixing them for a reason! I now have no excuse to keep ignoring them! They need fixing for the next draft...
I haven't written anything seriously for about 3 years now, so it's been a lot of fun getting back into the rhythm of it!
Other blog posts will probably start again over the next couple of weeks!