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| View of St Deiniol's church and graveyard from my bedroom window |
I'm enjoying my retreat in Wales though I'm not exactly writing. Well, I am am writing but it is all non-fictiony PR stuff for my forthcoming novel: articles about my time in Scotland 22 years ago (the novel was inspired by something that happened to me).
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| Sophia in the garden |
When I am not writing, I am reading - then ripping up - my diaries from Scotland (therapeutic!), walking in the pretty village of Hawarden, or eating. The food here at Gladstone's Library is beautiful and abundant.
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| Entrance to Gladstone's Library |
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Hearth panel: Louisa Yates (library director) Tania Hershman, Adnan Mahmutovic,
Neil Griffiths, Melissa Harrison, Peter Francis |
There was also the small matter of the Hearth Literary Festival here at the weekend, which I went to, so that sucked up some writing time. Very enjoyably. I took my friend Tania Hershman's flash fiction workshop and it was fast-paced and we had to work really hard. Great fun. So I wrote there!
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| The Glynne Arms, a lovely pub in the village |
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| Hawarden village, house |
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| Bilingual road sign, Hawarden |
It's hard to believe I am half-way through my stay already. My room is so warm and comfortable that I am going around in a heat-and-food induced fug most of the time. I need to buck up and write more. Novel no. 4 is calling to me ('Write me! Write me!') and there are exciting developments with novel 3 and my agent, which I can't talk about yet, but which are adding to my distractedness while here. But it's all good :)
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| Tania and I went to Chester yesterday - a metropolis after Hawarden |
4 comments:
It all looks fab! Your view from your bedroom is gorgeous. I'd like to be there if only to sleep ;-)
Ripping up the old diaries, are you re-reading passages at the same time? Well done, can't be an easy thing to do.
Very intrigued about novel no.3..oh the excitement! And had no idea there was a novel no.4 already scratching to get out, go you!
Look forward to chatting when you get back, enjoy the rest of your stay!
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Hi Karen! Sadly many of us are not sleeping - ghosties keeping us awake, maybe?!
Food is fab - I'll be rolling out of here on Thursday.
Re. the diaries - I am mining them for info about my time in Scotland then destroying them. It is MAD reading them. What a dose I was!
N x
Oh fantastic Nuala re Novel #3 and exciting things...also ripping up diaries, I did that in TGC, great fun and very liberating! Sounds like you had a great time, love the pics.
I am loving it here!! The diary destroying is fun!!
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