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Have faith in yourself, Raine. They accepted the ms because you’re good.
And maybe do some deep breathing and have a glass of something to steady the nerves, though not too much obvs 🙂

Daunt not, my dear. They liked what you sent. They think it’s more than good enough. They KNOW the world is waiting for it – as are we.

Of course it’s the good stuff!

My lovely, I feel for you and know just what you mean!! It’s real, and it will be permanent, and that is full of daunt. But forget all that. You have to. You probably have an ideal reader when you write? Write for them. Make it good for THEM. And a work of art is never finished, merely abandoned. You will have to walk away at some point, but…[Read more]

I think it depends how optimistic or pessimistic you are about the pandemic. Considering how long it takes between drafting a novel and seeing it in print (if it gets that far), if you take the optimistic view the whole thing will be over by then, it’ll no longer be a part of contemporary life, and nobody will worry much whether you’ve included it…[Read more]

Not answering your question, exactly, but I’ve read a number of short stories which include reference to Covid and in general I find them offputting, a bit bandwagon, which might be because we’re in the middle of it. I think if your novel is set at the time, a passing reference to its restrictions might be enough. But the same (to include or…[Read more]

Interesting. I wasn’t planning on writing a story about the pandemic but was thinking about whether the story I had planned to write should acknowledge the pandemic. For example there is quite a lot of travel in it and it feels weird to have someone just hop on a plane given what’s going on. Have to think a bit more.

Now there’s a coincidence. Neither am I.

I sometimes think a robot would be better at identifying the traffic lights than I am. Hang on, maybe that’s the point…