The Easington launch was a great success: a packed house and over two hundred books sold.
If you would like a copy it is available through all good bookshops (ISBN 978-0-9564823-0-3) OR through AGNES FRAIN . Email her at agnesfrain@hotmail.co.uk Catch all the photos and details on Wendy’s blog post.
Now the RoomToWrite conference is imminent!! – next Saturday in fact. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to arrive on as beautiful a morning as we did last November? If today is anything to go by then we may be in luck, with some early spring sunshine catching the dewy grass and sparkling its welcome.
But rain or shine it’s sure to be a day of intense and focused discussion, a lot of learning and of course writing ,with one or two glasses of white wine or G&Ts thrown in. I’m looking forward to it very much. Why? Because I like nothing better than to spend the day with writers and talk writing!
Today the sun at the conservatory window has set my bowl of hot red and pink tulips alight, and my beautiful gift of flowers from Easington Writers fills the room with its scent. The sky is a faultless blue – and accompanying the day is sense of the winter past and the new spring arriving – a time of beginnings.
Speaking of new beginnings – I set myself the task of writing six beginnings from portraits – here is one I wrote in Suffolk – this time from a live portrait..
A lone figure appeared on the horizon, looming out of the shoreline fog,hovering in the mist thrown up by the North sea: black and hooded and bent into the wind, leaning on a rolled-up umbrella. A man she thought, a young man, although she couldn’t be sure – a man from another age, pilgrim-like, a saddhu robbed of his nakedness by the icy east winds…
I have been working on several other beginnings since Suffolk and the strange – although perhaps not really strange thing is, they are beginning to look like fragments of the same story – who knows a novel even…
And speaking of beautiful things do take a look at absolutelybeautifulthings – I discovered it today – its a real visual treat!
Looking forward to Saturday too – a day with like minds in a lovely place – nothing better. All good writers and a G&T sounds like heaven,
I read your ‘beginnings’ and it reminds me of stories about how John Fowles’ magnificent book The French Leiutenant’s Woman came about , when he saw the lone woman standing on the Cobb at Lyme Regis. He felt she had a story so he wrote it.
Who knows what will come from your ‘beginnings’ – some good writing, for a start…
Enjoy
wxx