Fatty and the Physicist

Ever since our netball club's AGM and me standing down as registrar I have been dodging the inevitable. Our Club was without a President and there were no takers. There were, however, many sets of eyes in the room looking at me. So I hid for a few weeks, said no, nope and not on your life more often than I am comfortable with, trying very hard to adhere to the advice of Sarah Knight, who's book I have been reading religiously, "The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F##k" until I caved and said, "Sure I'll be delighted!" A great book, but the hard part is putting it into practice Since then I have been writing like there is no tomorrow. Not creative writing mind you, but immersing myself in the riveting and complex world of Constitutions and By-Laws. I figure it's all writing. I am still practicing sentence structure and punctuation..and formatting...God, I hate formatting!!! I should be an expert by the time I am done, or bald from pulling

Writing is such a singular pursuit but because I can be quite introverted, I enjoy the opportunity it gives me to be by myself and create. However, nothing gets the creative mind flowing than shooting the breeze with a fellow creative soul and that is where V (my artistic friend) and I come together and feed off each other's ideas. Much of our time of course, is taken talking about how wonderful it would be to have a studio dedicated to our individual passions. A writing/art studio where we can escape from kids/husbands/chores and be free to do what we love the most. Then after the initial day-dreaming, checking the lotto ticket yet again, realising the reality of needing to keep our day jobs, we settle down to throwing ideas around and inspiring one another. One of these sessions resulted in the creation of a new picture book called Flu at the Zoo (yes I know, another rhyming book...just can't help myself!!). Flu at the Zoo was created to give V an opportunity to practice

Alas, my manuscript was rejected. But that's OK, it was gentle and encouraging as opposed to an outright, you suck kind of rejection, so I am good with that and on the same day I received an email to say they have received my second manuscript I submitted, so there is renewed hope that maybe this new manuscript might be better. I have a wonderful friend who is taking the same journey but in illustration. For her, at the moment it is practice, practice, practice, but her new cartoon style is amazing and she is producing some fun pieces of art. One day we dream of collaboration but as we both know publishers don't tend to work that way, it may be a self-published venture...which is why we have started buying lotto together. As with anything you have to be in it to win it! I must check that ticket! Such talent! Love the Pug! Shaggy cat would have to be my favourite! Reading wise, I am currently reading To Kill a Mocking Bird. I read this many years ago in scho