Week 17: involving many books
Just after last week's update I won a Twitter fiction competition, and today my parcel of prizes arrived. There's still something so exciting about getting things (particularly books) through the post.
Unfortunately (and indeed, shockingly) I wasn't quite the comedic genius I assumed, last week, and Newsjack didn't use either of my sketches or any of my one-liners. However, I haven't let it put me off and I've sent in two more sketches today and am mulling over one-liners for tomorrow's deadline. This week's episode is the last in the series so it's my last chance for a while. I am emboldened enough to consider entering the Sketch in the City competition for writers in the north though, so something good has come of this.
Speaking of the north (as I so often do), check back here in a few days for a link to an article I wrote about taking my inspiration from the northern landscape, history and people (which of course includes my home and family). I managed to get another chapter or so of the semi-rural fantasy novel written this week, which is set all across the north of England. I'm enjoying all the background reading I'm doing for that, The Marches by Rory Stewart being the most recent (sh, don't tell anyone I'm reading books by Tory MPs). The Library of Mum and Dad furnished me this weekend with a local history book belonging to my 2xgreat-grandfather, however, and I'm looking forward to delving into that soon.