In the middle of creating my new 'writing' blog on Saturday morning I received a better offer in the form of a phone call from Ed. 'We're going to see Jessica Watson arrive in Sydney. do you want to come?' Took me two seconds to decide.
Sixteen year old Jessica has spent 210 days at sea circumnavigating the globe alone, non stop. Some claim it is not a true world record, (Eddie, and Maxine's ex amongst them) since she did not dip into the Northern hemisphere far enough. It was a great achievement nevertheless.
We got a glimpse of her as she stepped off her pink boat, and wobbled on her land legs up the pink carpet to be greeted by thousands of people including the prime minister and the premier of NSW Christina Keneally, who I thought gave the better of the two speeches.Jessica is a cool young woman who looked a bit bemused by all the hype.
It was a beautiful day. Cristina got to see inside a bit of the Opera house for the first time. Mathew and Annika expended energy running up and down the purple clad steps until they moved us out. Thank you for the call Ed, I had a great time.
I managed to work on the novel yesterday, not as much as planned, and I will finish getting the new blog together today, Polly's notebook. This afternoon I do a stint on 2RPH,reading Features. It will be the first time of reading without a cough from the post nasal drip so I'm looking forward to being in better voice.
The blog's looking really good Pauline. Great variety of information, commentary and reflection. To answer your questions I definitely don't think you should abandon the novels - both have great storylines and you've worked too hard to give up on them. Hang in there, and get them out there into the big wide world. I love your memoir writing too so keep that up as well. and just get a short story out there whenever the topic inspires you and the mood grabs you. How about a story or two here on your blog?
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PS; Freya loves your blog!