My very first conference!

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