So it’s the World Cup's here and I expect I’ll spend most of the England games watching through my fingers. I really enjoyed the match against Italy on Saturday and saw some real promise in our players – a definite desire to win that I haven’t seen in a long time. Maybe this will be our year, although I can see a very tough quarter final against the Netherlands or Brazil if we make it that far...
Looking at the news feed on FB recently I’ve seen a lot of people (men and women) complaining about the World Cup and how tired they are of it. I always find it annoying that people have to moan about something that only comes around once every four years and that they don’t even have to even watch if they don’t want to. Just change the channel!
Anyway, I’m watching every game and loving every minute of it.
Today I’ve started to look for temporary work to keep me going until I make up my mind about what I’m going to do with my life. If it’s more teaching then I need to do some additional training so that I have more to offer potential colleges/schools. I’m telling you, this life shit is really stressing me out. I need things to start happening for me, though I know I have to make them happen myself.
The writing’s going ok I guess; I’m up to chapter 29 now. I came up with some ideas for new chapters so I’ll need to write them out at some point. I wrote some new stuff for one of the chapters I skimmed over when I first wrote it and I took my writing pad and pen out into the garden. I actually got on pretty well. It was good to find out that I could concentrate out there and not have to go to a cafe or jump on a bus/train to get things done. The weather was lovely too, which was a bonus.
If you’re one of the few people who read my blog and you happen to be working on a book yourself then you’ll be interested to know that Random House is having an open submissions event this month. What they’re asking for is the first 50 pages and they need to be submitted by the 30th. Because of the potentially huge number of entries, they say they won’t be able to give feedback. I sent mine in last week so fingers crossed. If you send something in and you’re offered a six figure book deal, don’t forget to add me to your acknowledgements. Just kidding.
Here’s the link: http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/capesubmissions/
Just a short entry this time, hopefully I’ll have a job sorted out soon and won’t have to worry about rent money anymore. I don’t have much else to say except... COME ON ENGLAND!
P.S. Can someone tell me how I can find out who's +1'd me? I've checked in the help session and googled it a couple of times but with no joy.
P.S. Can someone tell me how I can find out who's +1'd me? I've checked in the help session and googled it a couple of times but with no joy.
