My novel 'Dream on' has been with the publishers six months now! I am impatient for it to be read and I only wish I could push it to the top of the pile... it feels like leaving a baby to rock itself to sleep in a cradle perched on a desk top! My creation is in a nursery...does that sound too possessive? My daily hope is that today will be the day when Paula says ....that novel is certainly a best seller!
Because I am waiting I don't feel like writing another book.....but I know I must because lots of ideas keep popping in and out of my head. So I will begin now. I want to write about Peru. It is going to be a novel but I will obviously be able to draw on my own experience of trekking to Machu Picchu.
Thursday, 25 September 2008
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
Money -tax
Were I living in Ireland I would go tax free yet here in England I have to complete a self assessment tax return! So much for encouraging someone to write and too much hassle combing through documents when you have not actually earned any money at all from the book you have written! What a waste of life's opportunities....
So much of my time lately has been taken up with the fundraising activities I have let myself become engaged in for The Fountain Centre (St Luke's drop in centre for cancer) in the Royal Surrey Hospital. Our Support Group are collecting outside M&S and Tesco in the Meadows which is in Sandhurst near Cambereley this Friday and Saturday. I'm organising this appeal so that entailed phoning folk for weeks before to ask them if they are prepared to give one hour of their time holding a collecting box. So many do not even bother to phone back and others have prior committments and of course, thank goodness, there are those who are willing and able to help. Then others in the group have arranged a golf day the following Friday on 19th. So three of us trailed up and down Guildford High asking the various shops and restaurants for prizes for this event. We wrote endless letters and went back to follow up our initial visit and sometimes, fortunately, to collect vouchers and gifts. While it is so good to help others it does take staminer and committment and so much time!
But then there are the rewards of being able and well enough to listen to those who are struggling to cope with their cancer or with family members and friends who need support and care. Most of all there is the Fountain Centre ready to help and support you...me personally when I have needs. This is invaluable.
So much of my time lately has been taken up with the fundraising activities I have let myself become engaged in for The Fountain Centre (St Luke's drop in centre for cancer) in the Royal Surrey Hospital. Our Support Group are collecting outside M&S and Tesco in the Meadows which is in Sandhurst near Cambereley this Friday and Saturday. I'm organising this appeal so that entailed phoning folk for weeks before to ask them if they are prepared to give one hour of their time holding a collecting box. So many do not even bother to phone back and others have prior committments and of course, thank goodness, there are those who are willing and able to help. Then others in the group have arranged a golf day the following Friday on 19th. So three of us trailed up and down Guildford High asking the various shops and restaurants for prizes for this event. We wrote endless letters and went back to follow up our initial visit and sometimes, fortunately, to collect vouchers and gifts. While it is so good to help others it does take staminer and committment and so much time!
But then there are the rewards of being able and well enough to listen to those who are struggling to cope with their cancer or with family members and friends who need support and care. Most of all there is the Fountain Centre ready to help and support you...me personally when I have needs. This is invaluable.
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