If you’ve been following my novel as serialised in this blog, you might notice that I haven’t posted any extracts for over a fortnight.
There are two reasons for this.
The first is that The Builders have left. There are one or
two jobs still to do when items arrive which they’ll come back for and there
are several plumbing jobs that Frog is busy doing. The bathroom is however
usable and I’m no longer marooned in my study trying to keep out of the way.
Consequently, I’m not tied to my computer and have found lots of things to do
in the rest of the house and in the garden, and writing has been abandoned.
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| One end of our new bathroom. Note makeshift curtains. |
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| The other end of our new bathroom. Note absence of basin mirror and shower screen (and door). |
The second reason for lack of posting is that I’m approaching some dark areas of
the novel and am busy telling myself that I’ve delved into them more than
enough and don’t need to do it any more. Like the heroine of this delightful
book which I’m reading at the moment, I’m telling myself I'm ‘completely fine’. Which no doubt means that I’m not.
The internet is probably not the best place to read a novel.
You need to curl up in bed with it, take your time and shut out the rest of the
world. So if you’ve stuck with The Banker’s
Niece so far, many many thanks. I hope you’ve enjoyed it.
It’s been
fantastically helpful writing for real people and not just to appeal to
agents and publishers. It’s made the novel come alive for me and honed my
writing (I hope).
So I’d better get
back to it.
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