It is the morning of the 29th November and I have won NaNoWriMo as have many of my friends and many more will make it over the winners line in these last couple of days of November and I wish you all a strong arm, clear brain and someone else to do the cooking. :-)

I will have a lovely break from writing early in December when I go and visit my daughter and celebrate a 40th bithday for my sone inlaw.  We have a perfect birthday present for him. 


'Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.'

William Wordsworth

‘Writing is a deeply immersive experience.  When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice.  I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian.’

Monica Ali

'Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.'

William Saroyan

'Anyone could write a novel, given six weeks, pen, paper, and no telephone or wife.'

Evelyn Waugh

'The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from piling bricks to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.'

H L Mencken

'You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success, then that's your bad luck.'

Michael Frayn