Just wondered how everyone is getting on with their novels – fully expecting no one to reply to be honest but since the website pops up on my wordpress menu it’s too tantalising to ignore.
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Lumb Bank 2014 
Hi Amanda, hope you’re well. The whole thing has taken me much longer than I realised it would! I’ve just finished the fourth draft of my novel, and need to have at least one more go at it before it’s finished, hopefully this summer. Then I’ll try and see if it can make its way in the world…
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Hi Gill,
Fantastic to hear that the novel is still going strong and great to hear from you. It’s such a long term commitment isn’t it. Perhaps we should share pitches to agents or query letters when the time comes. 🙂
x Amanda
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That would be cool! How’s your novel going? x
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Hello! Thanks, Amanda – it was good to see this blog pop back up on my list. I’m still working away. I was hoping to get the novel finished last year but ended up getting married instead. These weddings take an awful lot of planning! Still, it was a great day and well worth putting nearly everything else on hold for a while. But the writing urge never quite goes away…
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Brilliant! Congratulations, Dan! Yes, it’s good to have the shorter forms. You write Flash, don’t you?
x Amanda
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Yes – I’ve written flash from time to time, and been lucky enough to have some success with it. It’s something where I never feel like I entirely know what I’m doing, so I hardly ever sit down deliberately to write something super-short. When it works, I really enjoy it (both reading and writing).
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Yes, I like writing flash too and recently I’ve surprised myself by getting into poetry. It largely came about by reading my flash stories at a local poetry event and everyone calling them poems. 🙂
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Congrats on your wedding x
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Thanks, Gill.
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Thanks for asking, Gill. I’m on the last run of edits on my novel – although I could keep going forever no doubt. A couple of weeks ago I noticed that Jim would be reading at Chichester Uni where I did my MA, and so I thought, ok let’s make that a deadline, sort of, you know get it over and done with. So I think i might mosey over there and say hello to him – see if he remembers. A bit weird of me though.
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You should definitely say hello – I bet he does remember you!
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It was really good, and yes he did. I was surprised. 🙂
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Ha, brilliant, I thought he would! x
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Hi there you two, how are you getting on? My novel’s very close to completion and I’m wondering what to do next. Have you come across this?
http://www.unitedagents.co.uk/open-house
Also this
http://www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/pitchcb/
It seems to be still going on, not that Twitter is at all my forte.
Gill xx
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Hi Gill,
Lovely to hear from you. Congratulations! It’s a long haul. I haven’t seen those but I have been in touch with agents from both agencies with my last novel. I’m about to finish off the latest novel very soon, so I too might be on the hunt, although I don’t think it’s going to be saleable so I’m not raising my hopes. Have you any particular agents in mind?
Amanda x
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