Skylark
34 years old
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My MS is currently visiting another agent's desk....back to nail-biting!Information
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Are you a ...?Unpublished writer (so far)What genre do you primarily write in?Fiction for childrenAre your reading habits ...?OmnivorousWho is your favourite author(s)?Always changing...at the moment back in love with Jeffrey Deaver and revisiting a bit of Marian Keyes and Anthony HorowitzAnd your all time favourite books? (You can change these at any time, by the way ...)The Life of Pi, About a Boy, The Wind on Fire Trilogy, Archer's Goon, Red Tears (Joanna Kenrick), The Moonstone, His Dark Materials Trilogy, Unhooking the Moon (Gregory Hughes), Room (Emma Donoghue), The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)What are your working habits when you write?Perfectly balancedAre you the edit-every-sentence-ten-times type, or do you prefer to let rip?Prefer to let rip and edit afterwardsYour ultimate writing ambition?To make a living from writing books and running writing workshops for children.Your worst habit?Procrastinating on social networking sites....!Your opinion on the books industry?It is a tough game, but everyone does their bestWhere do you write?At home or at the libraryWhat else do you want Word Clouders to know? eg: do you have 9 cats / like paragliding / eat nothing but tinned fish / work in the bath / live in Kettering?Would like to time travel back to BC (Before Children), bottle up all the time I wasted and bring it back to now. I'd get so much done!
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"Skylark" commented on Jill's Blog "Can we love too much?".I don't think you can love too much but you can love the wrong person too much. There's nothing more painful than loving someone more than anything and not having even a sliver returned in your direction. Or putting all the effort into a ...
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"Skylark" commented on Wrathnar the Unreasonable's Blog "Miranda's state visit to Potters Bar".
Sounds like a great weekend :-) Off to check Tony's blog for the answer now.....
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"Skylark" commented on Tenacityflux's Blog "So, how’s that research going then?".
Great blog, TF! I'm at the research stage of my second book and your numbered comments had me laughing out loud :-) And I do feel a little like I'm studying again....Great fun though :-)
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"Skylark" commented on Skylark's Blog " Gutted (aka "a jolly near miss")".
And in response to Harry's lovely comments about my writing, I must point out that my writing voice has evolved as a direct result of WW critiques, WW advice, WW courses and WW festivals! I paid for a WW critique of the first eight or so chapters of ...
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"Harry" commented on Skylark's Blog " Gutted (aka "a jolly near miss")".Sorry to arrive to all this so late - though as Skylark knows, I've been doing my bit behind the scenes! - but one of the key messages from that first agent's rejection is in danger of getting a bit lost. SL has a brilliant, natural, warm, confident ...
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"Skylark" commented on Skylark's Blog " Gutted (aka "a jolly near miss")".
Thanks, Wrathy :-) Back to hoping while another agent takes a look so fingers crossed....
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"Wrathnar the Unreasonable" commented on Skylark's Blog " Gutted (aka "a jolly near miss")".Not much I can add to comments above, but *sympathy*
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"Skylark" commented on stephenterry's Blog "Samui Secrets change of title and book cover...".
I agree with Whisks. The top one made me think too much along the lines of holiday romance rather than murder in paradise. Like the change of title :-)
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"Skylark" commented on Skylark's Blog " Gutted (aka "a jolly near miss")".
Thanks, Spangles, me too! I'm very rubbish at this waiting game....!
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"Spangles" commented on Skylark's Blog " Gutted (aka "a jolly near miss")".My fingers are crossed for you, Skylark. You'll get there, I'm sure, so I hope it's sooner rather than later.
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"Skylark" commented on John Taylor's Blog "Beetlejuice".
Oi, John, were you just being rude to me? Mmm? ;-)
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"Skylark" commented on Skylark's Blog " Gutted (aka "a jolly near miss")".
Thanks, Spi :-) You know me well - it is indeed on another agent's desk tonight (with a little bit of help from Harry at WWHQ) so fingers crossed....
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"SecretSpi" commented on Skylark's Blog " Gutted (aka "a jolly near miss")".If I know you, you'll already have got your MS out the next agent/s by now, but just wanted to say how sorry I am that this agent wasn't the one for this novel in the end. Had a much smaller scale version of this myself which only involved one ...
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"Skylark" commented on John Taylor's Blog "Beetlejuice".
Ah, but Squidge, if that's a reference to my situation, I wasn't really in that middle waiting room. The door was open but my chair was on the outside.....
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"Skylark" commented on John Taylor's Blog "Beetlejuice".
Impatient patience - yep, that's me! I'm still in the huge, generic, everyone's-welcome waiting room. I'm the person sitting next to the door of the next, smaller waiting room with my foot firmly wedged in so that they can't shut it on me. I've had ...
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I live on the edge of the Peak District NP with my husband, 2 sons (4 and 1) and dog. I work 2 days a week as a Primary School Teacher and in my spare time (!) I'm attempting to edit my children's novel. Slow progress - hoping to finish it sometime before the next century...
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Gutted (aka "a jolly near miss")
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by Maryluv 4 days agoAh = bless you! I'm so tired, it may well be birthday bedtime for me. Sign of the times... -
by Squidge 13 days agoHope this new chapter is OK - it sort of feels like I've hit my stride with Rurik now. Just got to go back to revisit the prologue and first chapter to bring it up to the same standard...assuming it works for most folk of course!
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by Caducean Whisks 18 days agoThanks hun, but I'm glad I WAS there. She might have lingered days more. :( -
by Johncjg 1 month agoI can give a brief synopsis of the plot, there are two main unfolding plotlines
1- Celes learns to use magic, though he is very afraid of his own immense power, and there is little actual magic in the novel. He also discovers the intrigues of Asgard, known as the Kingdom Lights because by night it shines magically :)
2- A man named Lord Brandon is imprisoned for starting a rebellion but is brought to Asgard to be executed. He is rescued by the son of a former follower of his who seeks to bring back the Wardens and destroy Asgard. Brandon however stops the follower and tells him that is not what the Wardens were about and all they ever wanted was liberty, not destruction. It is implied lies were spread about the Wardens after they fell.
The plot follows Celes trying to unravel the Warden plot, all the while thinking Brandon is true antagonist and he is built up as such during the novel. In the end seeing that Brandon is actually a good person and realizing he may not be the villain that he is painted as, lies to the Asgardians and allows Brandon to escape.
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by Johncjg 1 month agoThanks for you comment, any comparison to HP is always going to be a compliment, though I don't think i'm half the writer JK Rowling is and it would be absurd to think I was!
I see as it as carrying on the spirit of storytelling -
Harry and Dumbledore - Frodo and Gandalf - Arthur and Merlin - Perseus and Athena all the way back to the beginning of time.
But no, my story is very different to Harry's :)
