Do I owe it to the sun?

Dear readers,

Today has been treating me well and I'm not sure if I owe it to the finally pleasant sunny weather or not. I like to think that my creativity doesn't directly depend upon such but either way, I've been ecstatically tapping away today on my novel-to-be.

A couple of things are making sense to me and I've been editing like crazy (thankfully! because I feel like editing kills me a smidgen at a time!) and somehow during this usually arduous process, I've managed to add 1500 words too . . . Strange, but a welcome change!

I do hope you're all similarly enjoying yourselves, maybe not similarly but are nevertheless happy!

Do let me know!

Yours

Afsaneh

Dream a little dream . . .

Dear readers,

Today I woke up at 5am which is a little too early for me usually but I couldn't sleep. Lately, I've been having the strangest dreams . . . they don't sound like dreams when I think of it. More like a series of pictures like in a cartoon book being flicked through. 

So I woke up at that ungodly hour and looked around in the dark and just couldn't get back to sleep.

I watched a little Frasier because there's nothing quite like watching psychiatrists struggle with their lives when you feel like a bemused excuse for a person!

And then those pictures I had dreamt of, they made sense.

You see, I've been stuck for so long on the prologue of my WIP that I was getting despondent just trying to continue with the rest of my work.

BUT those pictures were my prologue.

Thank Heavens!

I want to say dreams come true . . .

Have your dreams ever made you that happy before?

Yours,

Afsaneh

So I caught a break . . .

Dear Readers,

Yesterday was a tough day for a lot of reasons. For some days I've been feeling a little brain-dead which, as you can understand, does nothing to elevate one's self confidence.

But yesterday, (although I suppose technically it would be today) a couple of thoughts struck me regarding my current WIP.

So, from about 2am onwards I was sat in front of my laptop and finally able to see what my heroine needed to do.

 Nothing quite like a few hours of furious tapping of a keyboard to make that night's (morning's) sleep a little sweeter!

I have to say though . . .  it took her long enough!

And now, I'm in a rather gleeful mood for the first time in quite a while.

Are many people out there going through the same thing, I wonder?

Yours,

Afsaneh

Let me tell you . . .

Dear readers,

(Or perhaps reader - I don't know how many people will be perusing my blog, after all)

I've never had a blog before and I'm not even sure how to start one but I have and I think that'll help me connect with people.

You can never have too many friends, right?

So let me just introduce myself briefly in a few bullet points;

• My name's Afsaneh
• I have what people describe as a 'weird sense of humour'
• My literary idol is Jane Austen
• I'm slightly obsessive with any task at hand
• Few things are as thrilling to me as writing something that feels perfect

 I'm currently trying my absolute hardest on the redraft of a regency novel.

I wish I knew how long this sort of thing should normally take but it differs for everyone, I would think.

Anyway, I'm sure there are a lot of people in the same spot as I, sitting in front of a laptop or a notebook trying so desperately to force out . . . or maybe force isn't the right word. . . well trying to create the next chapter of their novel.

If so, do drop me a comment!

Maybe I'll find my sanity returning. Maybe you will.

Yours,

Afsaneh