Apologies

[Rachael Thomas]

Hi Ladies,

Apologies for my apparent absence recently. I have been dragged down by .... dare I say it ....despair, feelings of failure at not being able to write, fear of another rejection etc. I've just read Gemma's story (and bought her book!) and here I am admitting and owning my feelings to you wonderful ladies, congratulating anyone and everyone on their success, so I that I can maybe get back to my own writing.

 

I will improve my commitment to the group as well as my work. Promise!

 

So looking forward to meeting up at the conference.

 

Rachael

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[Deirdre...@aol.com]

Hello Rachael,  good to have you back.  As you will see, the rest of us (well some of us, including me..) have been wittering on about how hard it is to get the attention of agents, publishers, anyone at all really!  Shall I, shan't I,  all that stuff...  In other words having crises of confidence all over the place.  Sometimes even sending a simple email out with a writing-related query is beyond me, and as for getting a reply back, well it takes a bucket-load of courage to even open the damn thing!  What are we like?

 

Hopefully having written your email Rachael you're feeling better already. At least the sun's shining! 

 

take care

 

 

Deirdre xx

 

 

 

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[jowal...@yahoo.com]

Hi Rachael

Sending you a virtual (((hug))), trite probably, but I recognise someone who needs one. Who would be a writer? All that angst, all that misery, but we just can't help ourselves - can we?

I know you will have heard it all before, and it doesn't help me much when I tell myself this, but the best of the best have been rejected... many times. Katie Fforde tried HMB 8 times before cracking it with a different approach to a different publisher. I know you have worked really hard to be an HMB author, but can I just ask why only them? I understand that their guidelines are quite prescriptive, so maybe your writing has more individuality than can fit those limits?

Have you tried any of your other stuff with any of the small presses or e-publishers? I am probably teaching you to suck eggs here, but why not give it a go? Maybe not sucking eggs, but perhaps not putting them all in one basket? It might not be your dream, and there's no reason HMB can't stay that, but publication elsewhere might give you the boost you need to get back on that horse until you fulfil you ultimate writing dreams.

We all know how you feel and I have admired your tenacity thus far. Let the wine flow freely at the conference, we can moan about our rejections - but then we are all formulating a strategy to see as many of the Write Romantics graduate from the NWS as possible by this time next year.

I have copied Helen R in manually, as she has had some issues with googlemail access and I know she too can empathise with the fickle and frustrating road to publication. They don't know what they've taken on with the ten of us though and they better watch their backs!

Jo xx

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[lynne pardoe]

Hi Rachel, I so feel for you!!! we've all been like that and probably will be from time to time, its part of what makes us good writers, if we didn't have that sensitivity we'd be arrogant twats whose work would be too pompous to read.

I've been specially concentrating on reading books that are highly emotional in content, Jodi Picoult, Diane Chaamberlain, Susan Lewis, Cathy Glass (glass is more memoirs of a foster carer but reads like fiction) searching for how to 'do' emotional stuff and I've concluded they all have a slightly different way of doing things, Glass language & imagery is very simple, Lewis tells you everything, even putting down cups or boring details, it's like watching a film, Picoult is like reading a letter to a close personal friend, Chamberlain is like  whodunnit?

It made me see that there is no right way, I have to do it my way and that might include a few wrong turns here and there.

I think its a good idea to do what a friend, an excellent journlist (deborah dooley) told me years ago. 'I don't get writers block,' she explained, 'I'll just write rubbish when I'm not in the mood cos I can change rubbish & usually the mood does come into me when I start.'

I also think you get a boost of confidence even for just having written something.

I'm sure it's just a stage in your writing journey. Also, what is your blog address? I love your other life and it is much easier I guess to get positive feedback in practical things than writing. I'd love to read your blog but have so focused on emotional stuff at the moment I'm missing other good things, like Deidre's lovely book which I will buy ready to read when I feel I've read enough emotional stories or am totally fed up with them and need a rest!

I hope this gets to Helen R too, I did it the sneaky way & pressed reply all on Jo's note thus saving me the trouble of checking for myself. Lazy? Moi? Mais oui!! of course!!!

Love to all, Lynne

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From: jowal...@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 08:45:54 +0000

[lynne pardoe]

http://booksbywomen.org/the-a303-a-storytellers-road-by-roz-morris/
 
 
I really liked this blog post and thought I'd send it on. Its where I'm at at the moment, I'm still dominated by a social workers need to be brief and succinct and ignoring the atmosphere of the story. But this post by comparing the M5 with the A303, both roads which I know well, has shown me, almost given me permission, to write in more detail and create a whole world not just a series of plot points.
I think there was a similar question on ROMNA recently and some folk said it helped to add non-verbal communication in with the dialogue.
 
Lynne

 

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Subject: RE: Apologies
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 10:17:51 +0100

[Jo Walter]

Hi Lynne

 

That is a nice analogy isn't it?  I think you were right in your earlier email that there is no right way to write or to succeed at it - by which I mean publication, as that is my personal measure, even though I often wish it wasn't.  It is a combination of factors, some of which we have little to no control over.  Sounds like you are on a journey of discovery though, which can only enrich your writing and bring some freshness and renewed energy to your approach.  Really look forward to hearing about the results soon and thanks for sharing this.

 

Jo xx

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Subject: THE A303 the storytellers road

http://booksbywomen.org/the-a303-a-storytellers-road-by-roz-morris/
 
 
I really liked this blog post and thought I'd send it on. Its where I'm at at the moment, I'm still dominated by a social workers need to be brief and succinct and ignoring the atmosphere of the story. But this post by comparing the M5 with the A303, both roads which I know well, has shown me, almost given me permission, to write in more detail and create a whole world not just a series of plot points.
I think there was a similar question on ROMNA recently and some folk said it helped to add non-verbal communication in with the dialogue.
 
Lynne

 

From: lynne...@hotmail.co.uk
To: jowal...@yahoo.com; deirdre...@aol.com; thewrite...@googlegroups.com; rdt...@gmail.com; helen...@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: Apologies
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 10:17:51 +0100

Hi Rachel, I so feel for you!!! we've all been like that and probably will be from time to time, its part of what makes us good writers, if we didn't have that sensitivity we'd be arrogant twats whose work would be too pompous to read.

I've been specially concentrating on reading books that are highly emotional in content, Jodi Picoult, Diane Chaamberlain, Susan Lewis, Cathy Glass (glass is more memoirs of a foster carer but reads like fiction) searching for how to 'do' emotional stuff and I've concluded they all have a slightly different way of doing things, Glass language & imagery is very simple, Lewis tells you everything, even putting down cups or boring details, it's like watching a film, Picoult is like reading a letter to a close personal friend, Chamberlain is like  whodunnit?

It made me see that there is no right way, I have to do it my way and that might include a few wrong turns here and there.

I think its a good idea to do what a friend, an excellent journlist (deborah dooley) told me years ago. 'I don't get writers block,' she explained, 'I'll just write rubbish when I'm not in the mood cos I can change rubbish & usually the mood does come into me when I start.'

I also think you get a boost of confidence even for just having written something.

I'm sure it's just a stage in your writing journey. Also, what is your blog address? I love your other life and it is much easier I guess to get positive feedback in practical things than writing. I'd love to read your blog but have so focused on emotional stuff at the moment I'm missing other good things, like Deidre's lovely book which I will buy ready to read when I feel I've read enough emotional stories or am totally fed up with them and need a rest!

I hope this gets to Helen R too, I did it the sneaky way & pressed reply all on Jo's note thus saving me the trouble of checking for myself. Lazy? Moi? Mais oui!! of course!!!

Love to all, Lynne

Subject: Re: Apologies
To: Deirdre...@aol.com; thewrite...@googlegroups.com; rdt...@gmail.com; helen...@hotmail.com
From: jowal...@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 08:45:54 +0000

Hi Rachael

Sending you a virtual (((hug))), trite probably, but I recognise someone who needs one. Who would be a writer? All that angst, all that misery, but we just can't help ourselves - can we?

I know you will have heard it all before, and it doesn't help me much when I tell myself this, but the best of the best have been rejected... many times. Katie Fforde tried HMB 8 times before cracking it with a different approach to a different publisher. I know you have worked really hard to be an HMB author, but can I just ask why only them? I understand that their guidelines are quite prescriptive, so maybe your writing has more individuality than can fit those limits?

Have you tried any of your other stuff with any of the small presses or e-publishers? I am probably teaching you to suck eggs here, but why not give it a go? Maybe not sucking eggs, but perhaps not putting them all in one basket? It might not be your dream, and there's no reason HMB can't stay that, but publication elsewhere might give you the boost you need to get back on that horse until you fulfil you ultimate writing dreams.

We all know how you feel and I have admired your tenacity thus far. Let the wine flow freely at the conference, we can moan about our rejections - but then we are all formulating a strategy to see as many of the Write Romantics graduate from the NWS as possible by this time next year.

I have copied Helen R in manually, as she has had some issues with googlemail access and I know she too can empathise with the fickle and frustrating road to publication. They don't know what they've taken on with the ten of us though and they better watch their backs!

Jo xx

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Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 04:07:59 -0400 (EDT)

To: <rdt...@gmail.com>; <thewrite...@googlegroups.com>

Subject: Re: Apologies

Hello Rachael,  good to have you back.  As you will see, the rest of us (well some of us, including me..) have been wittering on about how hard it is to get the attention of agents, publishers, anyone at all really!  Shall I, shan't I,  all that stuff...  In other words having crises of confidence all over the place.  Sometimes even sending a simple email out with a writing-related query is beyond me, and as for getting a reply back, well it takes a bucket-load of courage to even open the damn thing!  What are we like?

 

Hopefully having written your email Rachael you're feeling better already. At least the sun's shining! 

 

take care

 

 

Deirdre xx

 

 

 

In a message dated 04/07/2013 19:30:44 GMT Daylight Time, rdt...@gmail.com writes:

Hi Ladies,

Apologies for my apparent absence recently. I have been dragged down by .... dare I say it ....despair, feelings of failure at not being able to write, fear of another rejection etc. I've just read Gemma's story (and bought her book!) and here I am admitting and owning my feelings to you wonderful ladies, congratulating anyone and everyone on their success, so I that I can maybe get back to my own writing.

 

I will improve my commitment to the group as well as my work. Promise!

 

So looking forward to meeting up at the conference.

 

Rachael

X

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[lynne pardoe]

Thanks for that Jo, I really liked that analogy too, probably because I'm often going up and down both roads. I used to think there was a 'right' way to get emotion in but now I see each does it slightly differently.
 
It does make so much difference to have this group to speak to about things like this, otherwise my poor long-suffering husband has to listen to it all and I'm sure he doesn't quite know what it means, not like a writer does.
 
I wish the tennis would hurry up and finish,  I mean, even now the local news was cut short to accommodate it! I ask you, its a national disgrace!!! (she says sounding like a stuffy Victorian about to write to The Times!!!)
 
Lynne x
 

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Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 10:23:16 -0700
From: jowal...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: THE A303 the storytellers road
To: lynne...@hotmail.co.uk; deirdre...@aol.com; thewrite...@googlegroups.com; rdt...@gmail.com; helen...@hotmail.com

[Deirdre...@aol.com]

What a beautifully written blog post.  One you'd remember too.  Something else to aspire to  *big sigh*

Thanks for sharing it Lynne.

 

Deirdre x

 

In a message dated 05/07/2013 17:55:17 GMT Daylight Time, lynne...@hotmail.co.uk writes:

http://booksbywomen.org/the-a303-a-storytellers-road-by-roz-morris/
 
 
I really liked this blog post and thought I'd send it on. Its where I'm at at the moment, I'm still dominated by a social workers need to be brief and succinct and ignoring the atmosphere of the story. But this post by comparing the M5 with the A303, both roads which I know well, has shown me, almost given me permission, to write in more detail and create a whole world not just a series of plot points.
I think there was a similar question on ROMNA recently and some folk said it helped to add non-verbal communication in with the dialogue.
 
Lynne

 

From: lynne...@hotmail.co.uk
To: jowal...@yahoo.com; deirdre...@aol.com; thewrite...@googlegroups.com; rdt...@gmail.com; helen...@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: Apologies
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 10:17:51 +0100

Hi Rachel, I so feel for you!!! we've all been like that and probably will be from time to time, its part of what makes us good writers, if we didn't have that sensitivity we'd be arrogant twats whose work would be too pompous to read.

I've been specially concentrating on reading books that are highly emotional in content, Jodi Picoult, Diane Chaamberlain, Susan Lewis, Cathy Glass (glass is more memoirs of a foster carer but reads like fiction) searching for how to 'do' emotional stuff and I've concluded they all have a slightly different way of doing things, Glass language & imagery is very simple, Lewis tells you everything, even putting down cups or boring details, it's like watching a film, Picoult is like reading a letter to a close personal friend, Chamberlain is like  whodunnit?

It made me see that there is no right way, I have to do it my way and that might include a few wrong turns here and there.

I think its a good idea to do what a friend, an excellent journlist (deborah dooley) told me years ago. 'I don't get writers block,' she explained, 'I'll just write rubbish when I'm not in the mood cos I can change rubbish & usually the mood does come into me when I start.'

I also think you get a boost of confidence even for just having written something.

I'm sure it's just a stage in your writing journey. Also, what is your blog address? I love your other life and it is much easier I guess to get positive feedback in practical things than writing. I'd love to read your blog but have so focused on emotional stuff at the moment I'm missing other good things, like Deidre's lovely book which I will buy ready to read when I feel I've read enough emotional stories or am totally fed up with them and need a rest!

I hope this gets to Helen R too, I did it the sneaky way & pressed reply all on Jo's note thus saving me the trouble of checking for myself. Lazy? Moi? Mais oui!! of course!!!

Love to all, Lynne

Subject: Re: Apologies
To: Deirdre...@aol.com; thewrite...@googlegroups.com; rdt...@gmail.com; helen...@hotmail.com
From: jowal...@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 08:45:54 +0000

Hi Rachael

Sending you a virtual (((hug))), trite probably, but I recognise someone who needs one. Who would be a writer? All that angst, all that misery, but we just can't help ourselves - can we?

I know you will have heard it all before, and it doesn't help me much when I tell myself this, but the best of the best have been rejected... many times. Katie Fforde tried HMB 8 times before cracking it with a different approach to a different publisher. I know you have worked really hard to be an HMB author, but can I just ask why only them? I understand that their guidelines are quite prescriptive, so maybe your writing has more individuality than can fit those limits?

Have you tried any of your other stuff with any of the small presses or e-publishers? I am probably teaching you to suck eggs here, but why not give it a go? Maybe not sucking eggs, but perhaps not putting them all in one basket? It might not be your dream, and there's no reason HMB can't stay that, but publication elsewhere might give you the boost you need to get back on that horse until you fulfil you ultimate writing dreams.

We all know how you feel and I have admired your tenacity thus far. Let the wine flow freely at the conference, we can moan about our rejections - but then we are all formulating a strategy to see as many of the Write Romantics graduate from the NWS as possible by this time next year.

I have copied Helen R in manually, as she has had some issues with googlemail access and I know she too can empathise with the fickle and frustrating road to publication. They don't know what they've taken on with the ten of us though and they better watch their backs!

Jo xx

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From: Deirdre...@aol.com

Sender: thewrite...@googlegroups.com

Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 04:07:59 -0400 (EDT)

To: <rdt...@gmail.com>; <thewrite...@googlegroups.com>

Subject: Re: Apologies

Hello Rachael,  good to have you back.  As you will see, the rest of us (well some of us, including me..) have been wittering on about how hard it is to get the attention of agents, publishers, anyone at all really!  Shall I, shan't I,  all that stuff...  In other words having crises of confidence all over the place.  Sometimes even sending a simple email out with a writing-related query is beyond me, and as for getting a reply back, well it takes a bucket-load of courage to even open the damn thing!  What are we like?

 

Hopefully having written your email Rachael you're feeling better already. At least the sun's shining! 

 

take care

 

 

Deirdre xx

 

 

 

In a message dated 04/07/2013 19:30:44 GMT Daylight Time, rdt...@gmail.com writes:

Hi Ladies,

Apologies for my apparent absence recently. I have been dragged down by .... dare I say it ....despair, feelings of failure at not being able to write, fear of another rejection etc. I've just read Gemma's story (and bought her book!) and here I am admitting and owning my feelings to you wonderful ladies, congratulating anyone and everyone on their success, so I that I can maybe get back to my own writing.

 

I will improve my commitment to the group as well as my work. Promise!

 

So looking forward to meeting up at the conference.

 

Rachael

X

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[lynne pardoe]

Yep, I think they're diverting the road away from Stonehenge now so's the landscape looks more prehistoric, L xxx
 

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Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 20:43:09 +0100
From: juliebear...@yahoo.co.uk

Subject: Re: THE A303 the storytellers road

To: Deirdre...@aol.com; lynne...@hotmail.co.uk; jowal...@yahoo.com; thewrite...@googlegroups.com; rdt...@gmail.com; helen...@hotmail.com

Hear hear! I now want to travel on the A303 cos it sounds lovely. Except the head-on collision thing :-(

xx

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Sent: Friday, 5 July 2013, 19:52

Subject: Re: THE A303 the storytellers road

[Alex Weston]

Thanks for sharing this blog Lynne. Really interesting and I'm glad you found it inspirational. 

One of the characters in my book takes the A303 to the South West rather than the motorway. She chooses to go that way because she's up to no good and thinks it'll be more private than the bright lights of the motorway. 

I do love the idea of a storyteller's road though. Especially one that's got Stonehenge on it! 

Alex

x

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[Jo Walter]

Hi Everyone

 

I hope you are all enjoying the lovely sunshine this weekend?  I took a break from what feels like a constant round of feeding a house full of kids and marshaling the wet towels, which snake a path from the pool to the kitchen, into the washing basket.  So I thought I would draft the synopsis for this year's NWS submission.  Can I pass it off as a romance?  Doesn't read much like one I have to say.  One paragraph of that variety and the mention of a single kiss - which after all is their own criteria... Keep your fingers crossed for me!  Off for a well-deserved glass of wine now, I think.  Hope you are all having wonderful weekends.

 

Jo x

[lorraine hossington]

I am so excited about the conference. I have done some washing, and will be going into town on Monday, to look for new shoes. No I am sorry ladies, they are going to be comfortable ones! I know the RNA has a fetish about them. All I want is comfort for my feet, so if anyone does want to take a photo of them, then I am afraid it will be me in low heels. The thought of standing for a long period of time in high heels, makes me wince thinking about it! Other than that, am totally excited, and will be travelling up with Vanessa, on Thursday. Countdown on the calendar.

I went to see occupational health, and I return to work in phased in period. So in two weeks time I will be returning to work. That will be a shock to the system. No more freedom to wander into town when I want, or go for a coffee. Roll on retirement, a shame I can't have extra, extra early retirement!

I was talking to my friend yesterday, and she said the trust, who I work for, are going to make three hundred people redundant, across the board. This is due to the fact the trust is so deep in debt. So things not looking so healthy for the NHS.

 

Anyway enjoy the weekend, and I will see most of you next week.

                     Lorraine x

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[lynne pardoe]

I bet you'll have a lovely time lorraine! I'm with you on flat shoes! Good on occupational health to give you a phased return, I hope you get on with it ok. Do keep writing though, that could be another 'escape plan' as I used to call it when I worked for social services!

I may have just had too big a rant on the blog, ooopsss!

I'm with you on the tea too. I wish I could meet up with you too! Maybe I could pop to my sisters in Reigate and meet from there.

Lynne x

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Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 19:07:21 +0100
Subject: Re: Wonder if I'll get away with it...?
From: lorraineh...@googlemail.com
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CC: thewrite...@googlegroups.com

[Jo Walter]

Hi All

 

Just a quick heads up that tomorrow's interview is with Allie Spencer, Rom Com writer with Arrow Publishing.  One for you, Julie, although her comments on the challenges of the current market didn't cheer me up much - there is some sage advice there, all the same.  Is anyone available to take over the Monday interview slot whilst I am in Florida please?  It would be Monday 29th July, 5th August and 12th August.  I have two of the three interviews ready and Lorraine was organising the third.  It would just involve posting them up, adding the media content (photos) and tags and flagging them up with the interviewee and via Facebook and Twitter.  Please let me know if you are up for it!

 

On another note, Lynne, Jaxx, Deirdre and I are hoping to organise a London meet.  Looking at our availability, a Monday or Tuesday from the second week of September onwards looks like a good option.  If anyone else fancies a trip to London, for lunch and a few drinks in Covent Garden, or somewhere equally nice, let me know and we will see if we can find a convenient date for us all. 

 

Jo x

[Jackie]

Hi everyone

Just to let you know I'm in Ibiza for the week and the internet connection is not as good as I thought it would be, so I may be silent for a while. Reading a book called Daughter of Smoke and Bone that is two pounds in Tesco - it is SO good. I love it when I pick up a book and don't want to put it down. i bought it for my non reading 18yr old daughter but as usual she's read one page and said 'hmm, not my sort of book.' I don't think she has any sort of book, sadly. Hope do do some writing while I'm out here, but typing while your on a sun bed while balancing a glass of wine is not the easiest!

Jaxx

[lynne pardoe]

How lovely Jackie!! Mind you, its similar to that here, its really hot!! Dunno what temperature though, just lots. Have a fab time and enjoy the challenge of learning how to type whilst on a sunbed and balancing a glass of wine, maybe by the end of the week you'll be eating peeled grapes and writing your bestseller too. Consider it good practice for when we're published and need to keep up a photogenic author's lifestyle! Lynne

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From: jackie...@aol.com
Subject: Re: I love the A303 too
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 11:15:42 +0200
To: Deirdre...@aol.com

[lynne pardoe]

Hi Jo, I don't mind doing it, I'd like to help run the group rather than just leave extensive rants on the blog! I don't know how to do it but am sure andy & I could work it out together but if you know of any pages of how to that would be great.

I'd love to meet up especially in Covent Garden, I haven't been there for years but it is so nice. It doesn't matter to me which day of the week it is to me.

How lovely to be going to florida! I bet you'll have a great time! Take care, Lynne x

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Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 03:40:18 -0700
From: jowal...@yahoo.com
Subject: Monday interviews and London meet up
To: helen...@hotmail.com; thewrite...@googlegroups.com

[jowal...@yahoo.com]

Hi Lynne

That is wonderful, thank you. It's dead easy really and I can talk you through it, plus you can practice by posting a draft before I go. I will be in touch off loop. Thanks again and looking forward to the September meet already. Just booked all the park tickets for Florida for the six of us, so feeling poor but excited!

Jo xx

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From: lynne pardoe <lynne...@hotmail.co.uk>

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Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 13:48:29 +0100

To: Jo Walter<jowal...@yahoo.com>; helen...@hotmail.com<helen...@hotmail.com>; thewrite...@googlegroups.com<thewrite...@googlegroups.com>

Subject: RE: Monday interviews and London meet up

[jowal...@yahoo.com]

Hi Jaxx

I agree with Lynne about the need to learn how to type, whilst sunbathing and drinking - it's almost essential, in fact. Edited my entire NWS submission and added 20,000 extra words to it whilst in Spain last year, as the deadline was fast approaching, and so was a dab hand by the end. Sadly still struggling with the photogenic part! Have a fab time.

Jo x

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Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 13:31:27 +0100

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Subject: RE: I love the A303 too

[Rachael Thomas]

Have a great time Jackie. I loved the blog too. I'm only just catching up now as its sunny - which for us farmers means hay (or silage) making whilst it shines!

Rachael

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