Well as I promised yesterday I shall explain the reason for my absence. Editing, yes that dreaded word.
As many of you are aware the final date for submitting a novel for the Luke Bitmead Award was on friday. After much procrastination I decided to go for it. That meant that most of last week was spent going cross eyed trying to pick out all my typos and errors still remaining in the second draft, on top of that I had to write a detailed synopsis and a personal statement about why I would benefit from the bursary. The last is harder than you would think… why should they give me ten grand, well I am awesome…I need it…I just broke the casing on my laptop..none of those reasons really felt natural to me I did my best now for that lovely waiting game. In a week or so I shall go through the manuscript again and no doubt find numerous errors I missed but as I have had to submit a word count so unless it is changing a comma to a full stop not much I can really do for now.
It also meant I am way behind on your posts I shall catch up this week I promise.
So lets see how I did…
1) Keep following schedule by the end of next week I should have a better idea how you are all enjoying it
With the exception of thursday it has gone well so far you all seem to be enjoying the new schedule but if anyone has any suggestions I am always open to ideas
2) Keep editing – I know if I can find the hours to put in I can do it but it will literally be last minute if I make it
As I said yup I just about made it I also set up a submissions page here incase anyone is interested in seeing how many nails I am chewing off
3) If weather stays nice get out and do some writing in notebooks because I have been so busy I have been working on the computer the whole time which expains why no poetry I always seem to write poetry better on paper
I have only left the computer in the last 24 hours since I hit the send button lol so that would be a nope!!
4) Watch lots of sport – yup I am a sports junkie when the olympics are on and believe it or not once upon a lifetime ago I was a sporty person and used to do the long jump somewhere my mum has a pic of me competing but I have no idea where sadly
Errmmm I should say no I was far too busy editing but I would be lying if I said that I have fit in a few events mainly ones where team gb were likely to win, but if I had missed the deadline I would have blamed the swimmers
Maybe I should give away a prize if you can guess the body lol I cut the head off as lets face it the faces are irrevlevant, no one is looking up there
5) Sort out my photos on my hard drive for use here on the blog I can’t even believe how many I have and how many I haven’t posted of places I have visited so before I go off anywhere else I need to sort out wht you have or haven’t seen.
Again failure on this one I blame the above reason lol
For next week only two as I am having an easy
1) Do some reading that means blogs and books
2) keep up with the schedule and relax
Paula Acton 
Love the picture 😉
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Hm, I can see how that hard body would be distracting. Have it glistening with water and forget about editing. 🙂
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My point exactly plus you have 8 per race then relays with 24 on show at oncee and well what more need I say
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Fingers crossed for you honey xx
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Editing is like a whole different mindset, a complete shifting of gears from writing. I don’t see the distraction in the picture, by the way. You must be a big swimming fan? ;-P
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Six packs not for you? even most of the female atheletes have them been watchng the heptathlon today all being well another gold for team GB
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I thought you were editing. ;-D
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no submitted yesterday been catchig up on housework today honest lol
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Okay. I’ll pay attention. Housework always needs diversion. LOUD music or sports.
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Funnily enough I was strangely drawn to your post today…….. Enough day dreaming – good luck and then some!
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now if we could get the body above into your mobile swimming pool….. 😀
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And have you started your Jane Austen reading yet? (I haven’t… but soon!)
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no was hoping to start last night bt then we started winning gold medals and i was caught up in the emotions
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You guys are doing pretty good… Congrats!
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I had a great comment, but then I saw the picture and it all flew out of my head. What were you saying????
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see that was my problem all week not to mention the hip action those guys have swimming butterfly
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yes the picture…… 😉
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i know I am terribly shallow but I am sure they are all capable of intelligent conversations aswell
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Best of luck for the bursary 🙂
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thankyou it seemed so easy until I sat down to try to write it I mean we can all come up with lots of reasons someone should give us money but to actually explain why we desrve it more than someone else is not so easy
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I can relate to that!
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Good luck with the submission! And yeah – those swimmers are pretty distracting. Lochte ain’t to shabby to gawk at. 😉
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