REALITY BITES

A good friend of mine asked me last week - what inspired me to write?

I've you've stumbled across this site you're probably thinking writing…what writing…she hasn't posted anything in ages.

And yet….and yet.

I am always writing.

I write on my laptop. I write on my phone. I have notebooks littered around the house (to my husband's despair). Once or twice (more twice than once…) I have lied to my children and locked myself in the bathroom so I could write. I hear songs on the radio and write stories about those.

There comes a time when these characters you write, these worlds you create become so real you have to remind yourself they don't actually exist.

So just know - I'm writing.

There's work to be done.

Jacq

PS - More chapters up now

A JOLLY GOOD BOLLOCKING

This time last week I got a decent bollocking. Two actually. First from my gorgeous girlie Steph the second from my wonderful sister in law. Both were adamant. Write more and for the love of god, and everything holy - post something! 

It has not been forgotten. 

Many things have come to pass over the past 12 months but the wheels are in motion and in the immortal words of Albert in the movie Hitch..."you can't stop this, you can't stop this." 

Watch this space. 

xoxox

PS - THANK YOU - to everyone of you that stops by here. Your ongoing support and messages are what constantly remind me that this madness is worth it. 

Jacq

THE POWER OF WORDS

I feel like I've found a mini-groove with writing over the past week. It has filled me with inexplicable joy to be tap, tap, tapping away at the keyboard once more - some days I've barely made it out of my pj's. Co-mmitt-ed (or lazy...you choose)

Want to have a laugh at my expense?

I penned a section today that has actually left me feeling a bit melancholic. I was telling Scott this evening while I stirred the spaghetti and the irony suddenly struck me. Hang on a second, I wrote this stuff, I actually made it up in my head what on earth am I getting so worked up about...?

My jury is out on whether or not I'll change it but what a dork. 

Seriously. 

Jacq

x

EAT THE FROG

Every morning you should get up and eat the frog first. After that everything else is a breeze. So I'm told.

Nom, nom, nom...froggie

:)

Jacq

From Jacqueline Grace Photography

FOR STEPH - PLUS CHAPTER FIVE

I've just added up Chapter 5 and increased the word line spacing to 1.5. Hopefully this will mean it's slightly easier to read?

Just for you Stephanie :) 

Enjoy 

x

EASY DOES IT

I'm stuck.

I'm having a big fat period of writers bog. I'm writing, deleting, re-writing, re-deleting the same paragraph over and over again.

Thank you so much to you wonderful people who keep emailing me asking for more. It's about the only thing that keeps me opening the computer and writing, deleting, re-writing, re-deleting....

You get the picture.

Another way to look at this is that all progress is good.

.....

Sorry for the rant.

More story soon.

x

WRITERS BLOCK

Today I stood at the grave of one of the world's greatest writers and paid homage. I wont bamboozle you with any further words, suffice to say it was humbling beyond measure.

We shared a moment, Shakespeare and I, and I told him I was a big fan of his work. I shared this intimate experience with around 5 - 10 other tourists and shamelessly hogged front-row-centre for at least 5 minutes kill joy.

I'll put up some pictures on the photography site shortly, for the meantime I'll leave the rest to your imagination.

Jacq

PS - Thank you so much for stopping by
PPS - More on the story soon, we have limited connectivity where we're staying but I promise I'm making progress