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    Day 23 of publishing Me Here Without You Now

    Well, I got a rejection letter from the publishing company. Here’s what they had to say: There’s a lot to like, but ultimately we don’t feel that we’d be best-placed to bring the work to market. Not sure what to think about it. They must have liked bits of it, I guess. Everyone keeps saying that as an author you…

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    Day 4 of publishing Me Here Without You Now

    Me Here Without You Now is pretty much finished, edited, and I’ve ordered a cover from an artist I found on TikTok. The editor (the first person to read it apart from me) said she loved it, so that gives me hope. Watched and read all about self-publishing, I think I have a pretty good idea of what that entails.…

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    Day 64 of writing Me Here Without You Now

    Me Here Without You Now is almost finished. There are still some chapters missing, there are chapters that still have only a few sentences but the main story is finished, the final chapter is written, I’m just filling in the details around the main parts and expanding the shorter bits. I’ve started looking for an editor, it’s time for someone…

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    Day 52 of writing Me Here Without You Now

    Me Here Without You is going on quite well. I really like it. It’s kind of theraputic for me, it is. There are certain experiences from my life that I’ve packages into different but similar experiences for my characters and going through them again from another perspective is proving healing for me. So, I write and I cry and I…

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    Day 38 of writing Me Here Without You Now

    I am on a roll, I want to write all the time. I write in the car when I wait for my kids to finish practice, I write on the sofa watching TV, I wake up in the morning, go sit at my computer and write, then forget I’m hungry, only remember when I’m practically starving, make myself some eggs…

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    Day 35 of writing Me Here Without You

    I’m writing! I think it’s good to keep a record of my journey, how I got to where I got. Perhaps nowhere, perhaps somewhere. Hopefully, somewhere. What have I done? I’ve written about eight chapters, just a rough version. I’ve changed the name of my lead character way too many times. I started with Mia, then switched to some other…

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    Day 30 of writing Me Here Without You Now

    I am writing again! I’ve written three chapters. I’m not doing it chronologically but rather where my inspiration takes me, so, bits first then around it. I have a pretty good idea where the story is going, I know where it ends up (in the beginning), I just need to fill in the missing bits now. I’m trying not to…

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    Day 28 of writing Me Here Without You Now

    Doing it, writing. It’s still slow progress but I’m getting there. Have been to three more interviews for teaching positions but they were all pretty far away, more than an hour drive in one direction, so, I had to decide against it. Still haven’t told anyone about writing a book, it’s my little secret and I intend to keep it…

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    Day 25 of (not) writing Me Here Without You Now

    New year, new me, new promise! This is the year I get my permanent teaching position and publish my first book. Phew! So not happening… “Can someone make it happen?” she whispered. Made a list of all the things I want to make happen this year, rolled up the wishlist and jumped into the new year with it. I’m in…