Week 18: in which I'm not allowed to get big-headed
Where to start this week? I've got Twitter fiction in Mslexia, I've had a bestselling author send my blog traffic through the roof, and my mum told me off for not making the link to my guest post on the Women Writers School obvious enough.
We'll start there first in case you, like my mum, were desperate to read that guest post and just couldn't get to it. It's called Northerners! Know Your Place, and is at http://womenwritersschool.com/northerners-know-your-place/ (and like most of my other stuff, is accessible via my About page). As you may expect, it's an article about why I set so much of my writing in the north of England. I may come across as slightly deranged and/or obsessive, but it doesn't seem to have done me too much harm so far. Honestly, it hasn't. Ahem.
Many of Kit de Waal's Twitter followers visited over the weekend to read a blog post I wrote a few months ago, about class/wealth being a barrier to writing (beyond the hobby level), so if you haven't already read that you might find it interesting, and if you have already read it you might have missed the follow-up post I wrote this week.
Staying with Twitter, after winning a Twitter fiction competition recently I've now got another mini-story in Mslexia magazine, which is quite exciting (and a bit of a surprise - I'd tweeted it to them as part of a challenge, but I don't actually subscribe so the first I heard was when a friend had spotted it in print). Here's the story - writers, don't take it too much to heart:
