I'm back!
Back from the delights of
the #RNAConf16 which this year was held in Lancashire - my home county.
And, thirty minutes up the
motorway - waiting to wrap its arms around us for almost three whole days - was Lancaster University. What a super campus; green and leafy (probably from
all the rain we get) and exceptionally well-kept. It's vast and spread out, so
we did have to walk a bit, and one day we got soaked - but well done to all the
staff at Lancaster for looking after us all so wonderfully. It was a chance to
meet up with the good friends I've made on my writing courses with Kate Walker and to connect with other folk I've only
previously met on social media, which I did. In bucket-loads. And it was
fabulous.
My one-to-one industry appointment with the lovely Flo Nicoll and TildaMcDonald from Harlequin Mills&Boon pointed me in the right direction with my manuscript. The same manuscript that I’d submitted the day before to the RNA NWS.
But now, with all the
preparation for the conference, and all the excitement leading up to it, I'm back down to earth with a bump. With only three weeks left until I fly off
on holiday, I need to crack on with the revisions. I've come away from the
conference seriously inspired, and by the time I fly off on that jet-plane I
would like to have made some headway with those.
So, what do I need to do?
Well, for a start - I need
to stop faffing around on social media - that's what I need to do. My dream of getting published is not going to happen unless I
knuckle down and write.
And that word - write
- was exactly what Kate Walker said to us as we left her at the conference.
Wise words indeed.
Until next time
Kim x
