I haven't dropped of the face of the Earth I have just been......writing and NOT self publishing

Okay so its six months since my last post but I have an excuse. I have totally switched gears and am now NOT self publishing as I am convinced it would be the death of a writing career that has only just begun!!! I have however made some progress, I have done a lot of research and attended a Writers Digest Conference in NYC at the end last September which I would highly recommend.

I am also now doing another Gotham writing course and I am LOVING it. In the interim,while I have now decided on going to the traditional publishing route,I am now in the process of querying my manuscript. I therefore need to boost my confidence os that when any rejection letters come in I prepared to take them on the chin.

I am writing almost daily now,both free writing and working on a first draft of a novel and I know that I am finally on the right track. I have learnt so much in the last two years about the craft of writing and I am finally calling myself as a writer.

The best advice I received recently is to simply write and as Nike and my current course facilitator,Barbara De Marco Barrett says, Just do it!!!!