18 July 2013 Activity

18 July 2013 Activity

Writing activity this month

Ywnwab One. c 20,000 words of some 28 short stories and Allrighters’ information. Given a final edit and sent to York Publishing Services for action. Cover design and format to be worked out.

This web site including blog format for news and diary set up by Peter Richards of Brush House.

A draft story written for Costa Coffee Short Story Competition. Submission required by 2 August 2013.

More writing progress and structuring on Sevhend as a first long book for spring 2014.

860,000 draft words exceeded.

A start on planning for a book fair in West Wales underway.

15,000 words of a writing group member’s book read and commented on. More to come.

Reading 

Robert Goddard’s Fault Line 

Sarah Young’s My Enemy’s Cradle and 

A C Maclean’s Hill of the Red Fox read this month. 

Started Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Books. 

Another Jack Reacher book due in August.

Dipping into:-

Jen Campbell – Weird Things Customers say in Bookshops.

- A good laugh.

Felix Dennis  - Love of a kind – A new illustrated book of his poems compiled and partly written under the illusion of a sentence of death.

Visual Delights.

Visit to York to see the six Sir Nigel Gresley designed A4 Class Pacific locomotives including Mallard and A4 bearing his name.  

You tube video of Vulcan XH 558 flying display at Waddington.

A busy month so far. Clearing up and external painting deferred. Excuse … too hot! New boiler fitted. Small form - should save gas. Time will tell. Thrashed at Bridge on Monday.

to be continued ......