Snuggle up and take a sip of your favourite beverage – it’s coffee time!
Thanks for joining me at this late hour. As predicted, my day has been spent researching and studying a period in history with a focus on the historic text and literary works covering events and the attitudes of those involved. Exciting as it is to immerse myself in the task, I’m glad to take a break and catch up with you.
How has your week been? Some of my favourite bloggers have been sharing their posts that they’ve entered into the Bloggers Bash Competition. Have you heard about it yet? It’s not too late to enter your story or post; click here for the rules and how to enter.
Yesterday, I woke up feeling one of my rare flashes of motivation and energy to get some writing and studying done. It has become less frequent since procrastination moved in two or three years ago. When these flashes happen, I try to take advantage and get as much work done as possible before the fire burns out and I’m left with my usual trickle of energy. Do you get flares like this or are you a constant burner?
In my Writers Club, I’m prepping the children for another Young Writers competition. This time it’s a diary entry and boy, has it produced some very funny stories! By allowing the young writers to express themselves freely, they sometimes get carried away with rude names for characters or extremely violent slapstick that borders on the not-so-funny rather than rib-tickling humour. It opened up a conversation about how a writer changes his or her writing style according to the audience he or she wants to attract. Teaching them to think about their audiences’ reactions to certain names or physical actions gives them a good balance on how far to go with dirty humour. Let’s see if they come back this week with a well-gauged piece of writing that will keep their audiences amused without being offensive.
On the home front, it’s not long to go before our moving date. I’m not flustered about it but would prefer not to have a countdown. I hate waiting for things to happen because I know Sod’s law usually steps in just before a planned event with a nasty surprise.
Apart from that, I’m looking forward to the move and will move furniture to my hearts content whilst driving the family crazy!
Thanks for joining me for a quick cuppa and catch up. Let’s hope it will be at an earlier time next week! Until next time, enjoy your week ahead.
Young Writers Club? Sounds ace! *
Good luck with the move and hope you have a good one x
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Thanks Ritu. Yes, Young Writers runs competitions for children of all ages. My little club likes to participate and we’ve managed to achieve the Gold Award for good writing over the past year. Plus the children get to see their writing published in anthologies- Young authors! 😁
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That is great! Yup, my Lil Man was in one a couple of years ago!
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He must be very talented like his mum! 😁
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He tries bless him!
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Good luck with the move. We’ll all look forward to being invited for Monday Coffee in your new pad.
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Thank you lance! I look forward to taking photos and doing a feature on the new garden too!
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Thank you so much for mentioning The Bloggers Bash Blog post competition, Eloise. With the deadline of 24th March 2019 fast approaching, there is still time to get entries in.
Wishing you good luck with the upcoming house move. I hope it all goes well.
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I wish I had the time to submit my entry too, but alas I’ll have to wait for next year.
Thank you. Hopefully I’ll be able to tell you all about it at the Bash!
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It certainly doesn’t feel as if you’ve not been writing Eloise. Your words seem to flow on your blogs. I’m plodding slowly as very busy at work. Looking forward to a break in June, but it means I’ll not make Bloggers Bash … again! Take care x
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Oh no! Hope fully next year will be the one. Thank you for the lovely compliment Cecily. Roll on the holidays!
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