Spring is a Time for Writing

Spring is warm, the sun is out at long last and you're not freezing to death, it's a season of new life and therefore it should be the season of inspiration! The birds are blooming and the flowers are singing...erm, well yes, indeed! Writers, get your arses into gear, get out of your bloody houses and embrace the world out there and write something! Saying that I am stuck in my bedroom with some classic Opeth blasting out of my speakers, but hey, I'll probably take my laptop into the garden once my battery has charged. I've got some character writing to do, as Asaros needs a proper introduction and for the reader to see into her head more and to make her more vivid in the minds of the reader, at the same time, trying to not make her sound too angsty, after all, she hates the world, but not in the PMS struck teenager kind of way, but with actual reason. And at the same time I'm trying to think like a girl, so in preparation, I've been spending twice as long in the shower, spending evenings doing my hair and I've got a fabulous handbag! Oh I kid, I've always been like that and my handbag by the way, it's Gucci. Ridiculous stereotypes like that wouldn't make sense, she doesn't even brush her hair, let alone finding herself spending the weekend trying to make it pretty, as for showers, well she's in a state of mind of, "I can't be arsed with this shit anymore", so that's her health and hygiene included. She's not there to impress anybody, and why should she?



Anyway, I have decided this Spring that I'm going to behave - it'll be a time for me to say, "screw this hermit attitude" from the Winter months and get out there. Coming up from 15th to 17th April is the Cambridge Wordfest and in all my years of living only a bus journey away I've never actually been to one. Why the hell not? I used to go to all kinds of events when studying in Derby, so why don't I actually do something here? I might learn something, even find advice on using my skills as a writer to find employment - as I've been unemployed since 10th March. I could probably even see what I can do about my spoken word side of things, as the last time I've done anything like that was last July when I was doing Storytelling in front of an audience at The Voice Box in Derby, and what better way to prepare for 5th May for my return to Derby to perform in front of Creative Writing students. Then of course there's the Cambridge Storytellers, who I still need to meet up with - I saw them once in Derby and really, really ought to go to one of their meetings. The Cambridge Wordfest this year will star Dawn French talking about her book 'More than A Tiny Bit Marvellous', Simon Armitage to talk about his new collection of work, Seeing Stars, PD James, Sam Harris, Ian McEwan and many more. Hopefully it'll be an event made of win.
The URL is here: http://www.cambridgewordfest.co.uk/

This photo of Cambridge is courtesy of TripAdvisor

Now that I've come to the end of my post, I've missed that chance of sunshine, it's started bloody raining! Sod it!