Margaret Mayo Romance Author

Not so good news. My editor doesn’t think my latest story is achieving its potential and has suggested I put it aside and start something new. So it’s back to the drawing board. On hindsight, the fact that I didn’t carry on at a pace with the rest of the story while waiting to hear from her should perhaps have told me that I hadn’t quite hit the mark this time. Perhaps it was having my wonderful holiday in Florida and then Christmas that affected the flow. At least that’s my excuse!

So it’s back to the drawing board (another name for my plot file)

And I’m off to my Art Group now which will give me inspiration in a totally different way.

Still waiting for news from my editor so the writing went very slowly last week. About 2000 words in the whole week! I usually do that in a day – when it’s a good day, that is. And today I shan’t do much as I have a chiropodist appointment this afternoon.

We were expecting delivery of a new fridge freezer on Saturday, waiting in the whole day, finally phoning to find out where it was, to be told the order had been cancelled!!! By whom? No one knew. And it certainly wasn’t us. To add insult to injury they claimed to now have none in stock. We had ordered it by phone and paid by credit card – but had that been cancelled too? No! They promise to deliver when they have new stock next week – but no way. We have cancelled this time and ordered it from somewhere else. But I’m keeping a check to make sure they cancel the credit card payment.

Having got that off my chest I’m going to sit down with a strong cup of coffee and spend quality time with Robynne and Kendel. I know they won’t do the dirty on me.

The first three chapetrs of Robynne and Kendel’s story, together with a synopsis, have now gone to my editor. Fingers crossed she likes it. I’m going to catch up with a few jobs around the house while I’m waiting to hear from her – although I might do just a page of writing each day so that I can keep it alive in my head.

Our bedroom badly needs redecorating so I have colour charts propped up on pillows trying to decide which colour I like. At the moment it’s in shades of green which has always been my favourite colour – but I think it’s time for a change. Maybe browns, or maybe – I’ve been thinking about this – one wall in a deep purply berry colour. The thing is it’s not a very big room and I don’t want to overpower it. What are your favourite bedroom colours?