About a year and a half ago I started writing a book. I didn’t know how to write a book so I typed ‘how to write a book’ into Google and that should probably have been a sign to stop right there. I wrote the first page 20 times, gave up, cried, and then vowed to never do that again.
Flash forward a year and a half and somehow the book exists. I kept going and crying (slightly) less. I joined the Curtis Brown Creative Write Your Novel Course and studied with an amazing group of writers so that instead we could all cry together. I managed to not delete the Google Doc (my biggest fear which I still have nightmares about).
I’m not sure what the future holds for this little book but it’s a story very close to my heart and one that I hope you might get to read one day. Thank you to everyone who has read it so far and helped as part of the journey to wrangle it onto paper.
Finally, and excitingly, I’m now represented by the amazing Rachel Goldblatt at Curtis Brown for all things books. (And, after a year and a half it only occurred to me to finally print a copy to stop the Google nightmares.) ❤️
Can't quite believe it but I'm happy to say that I'm one of the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing finalists for this year. Massive thank you to @bafta@rocliffeproductions 💛 I've also included a bonus picture of me writing the script in what has now been deemed 'prawn mode' 🦐
kinda awkward because I forgot to put this one in my last post but now I've already used the caption and I guess I could just not post it but they did let me hold the clapperboard?
