tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-277540632009-02-21T04:31:47.808-08:00Write here and nowA place where you can read about writing and write about reading.JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16468105031263739749noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27754063.post-51065913190042873292008-07-31T04:34:00.000-07:002008-07-31T04:36:55.388-07:00A last postIt has been some time since I last wrote here and that is because I have been preparing for my wedding. I'm getting married in September and the writing just hasn't been happening. I still want to write and perhaps one day I will have more time but for now this is me saying goodbye for now. I won't be posting but I may visit you from time to time.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27754063-5106591319004287329?l=writehereandnow.blogspot.com'/></div>JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16468105031263739749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27754063.post-1175431661184859482007-04-01T05:45:00.000-07:002007-04-01T05:47:41.193-07:00AliveI am alive. I know I have not been on here forever but I am alive. Work has taken over my life but I have one week off next weekand I am flying out to Spain with a friend. I'll fill you in when I get back. Bye for now.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27754063-117543166118485948?l=writehereandnow.blogspot.com'/></div>JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16468105031263739749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27754063.post-1162567584082523492006-11-03T07:22:00.000-08:002006-11-03T07:26:24.093-08:00FridayI am soooo glad it is the weekend. Friday night. I am going out with a couple of friends to the cinema but we still haven't decided what to see. It will be a break from life. My writing is going sooo slowly at the moment I am embarrassed even to talk about it.<br /><br />I sent off a few of my poems to a publisher and I am waiting to hear back but nothing has arrived yet. I will tell you when I hear anything.<br /><br />I'm reading High Fidelity by Nick Hornby ten years after everyone else but I am reading it. I'll post again in three months???!! to let you all know my verdict.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27754063-116256758408252349?l=writehereandnow.blogspot.com'/></div>JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16468105031263739749noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27754063.post-1160602484267303442006-10-11T14:30:00.000-07:002006-10-11T14:34:44.276-07:00InspiredIt has been a very long time since I wrote anything here, but here I am again. I had a very busy summer as I went to Turkey and then Cyprus with friends. It was beautiful. Now I am back in Britain and back to work. Aaah.<br /><br />My writing is just not happening but I just read some of another blogger's new book- Jude, the one she is writing at the moment and it has inspired me. You have to read it. It's called <a href="http://www.judes-writing.blogspot.com">The View From My Window </a>and I think it will be a best seller when it is published. You saw it first here!!!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27754063-116060248426730344?l=writehereandnow.blogspot.com'/></div>JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16468105031263739749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27754063.post-1151953607086242632006-07-03T12:03:00.000-07:002006-07-03T12:06:47.096-07:00Back againIt has been a very long time since I last posted a blog. Time flies. It is amazingly sunny here and I suppose what with work and writing and the sun, I've just been toooooooooooo busy.<br /><br />I'm about half way through my short story <span style="font-style: italic;">The Dark </span>which I hope to submit to an ezine I saw advertised on another blog link.<br /><br />Things in the office are very busy and there's a lot of internal politics which is tiring and stressful. But I will survive.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27754063-115195360708624263?l=writehereandnow.blogspot.com'/></div>JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16468105031263739749noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27754063.post-1149413689034107662006-06-04T02:31:00.000-07:002006-06-04T02:34:49.043-07:00New month, new postI know I have been absent for a while but I dashed off to Sunny Spain for a week and now that it's a new month I thought I would christen a new post.<br /><br />I am reading a book at the moment called <em>Eve Green</em>. It's a bit hard going in places but some of the passages are really beautiful. It won the Whitbread first novel award last year and was a Richard and Judy book.<br /><br />Writing is slow. I'm still working on the Dark. Hope to get some done this week.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27754063-114941368903410766?l=writehereandnow.blogspot.com'/></div>JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16468105031263739749noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27754063.post-1147705877713467012006-05-15T08:08:00.001-07:002006-05-15T08:11:17.713-07:00Holiday seasonI have taken the day off today and I'm watching day time television and generally moping about. It's been a while since I gave myself a break so I've decide to book a holiday and go somewhere exotic. Well exoticish.<br /><br />Any suggestions? I may go to Spain or the Canaries - just to relax. I will hopefully get some writing done too.<br /><br />It may be a while before I post again.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27754063-114770587771346701?l=writehereandnow.blogspot.com'/></div>JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16468105031263739749noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27754063.post-1147705728274103852006-05-15T08:08:00.000-07:002006-05-15T08:08:48.276-07:00Tired AgainI'm soooooooooooooo tired. I think I'm going to get repetitive strain injury from typing up long boring reports about the environment.I think I need a holiday. I'm happy that I've written one whole page of my story and it's started to get going, but I really need to give up this working. How can anyone do the two together- write and work? Madness.Holidays. Lastminute.com is great for these and I will have a look right now.That's it. Sorry. Tired.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27754063-114770572827410385?l=writehereandnow.blogspot.com'/></div>JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16468105031263739749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27754063.post-1147209284144240312006-05-09T14:09:00.000-07:002006-05-09T14:14:44.150-07:00TiredI've been to a friend's for birthday drinks and am too tired to think, let alone write.<br /><br />I'm in the middle of reading <em>The Da Vinci Code</em>. I thought it was about time I read it, seeing as everyone else has and I want to see the film when it comes out, so it will be a good comparison.<br /><br />My story is on hold as things are a bit hectic just now. <em>The Dark</em> will have to wait.<br /><br />I'm watching <em>Mission</em> <em>Impossible ii</em> at the moment, so I shall cut this off a bit abruptly and if you were wondering what JR meant it's just the abbreviation from my first and second names. Nothing to do with any horrible villains. Ahhahaha !!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27754063-114720928414424031?l=writehereandnow.blogspot.com'/></div>JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16468105031263739749noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27754063.post-1147102342612699752006-05-08T08:28:00.000-07:002006-05-08T08:32:22.620-07:00WritingI am an aspiring writer so rather than aspire I thought I would write and here I am. Today is sunny and that has inspired me to do a bit of writing. I'm working on a short story at the moment called <em>The Dark</em>. Usually I write pretty serious things- stories about people's situations and such.<br /><br />I work as an administrator for the council the rest of the time and yawn yawn. That's enough of dull talk. I'll let you know how my story goes. I want to enter it into a competition. I just need to find out where there's one being held.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27754063-114710234261269975?l=writehereandnow.blogspot.com'/></div>JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16468105031263739749noreply@blogger.com1