So apparently it's my 100th post. Fancy that! I remember when this blog was little more than a cheeky gleam in Blogger's eye. But what to do to celebrate such a milestone? I could have a contest - but for that I'd need a)prizes and b)competitors, and that just seems like a lot of work. I could do a look-back over blog posts of the past, perhaps compiling a hall of fame or sighing, doe-eyed over happy memories, reliving the highs and lows of the past 2 years. But that seems kinda lame. If I don't care about it, I sure as hell doubt anyone else will.

So I guess I'll just do nothing. Except continue posting in the style to which we've become accustomed; I'm guna have a little moan and give out some useless info, as well as possibly mentioning cake at some point. ON WITH THE SHOW!

I know, I know, I've been pretty quiet on the blog front over the past few months. Shut up, I've been busy. I finished my WiP, polished my WiP, agonised over query letters, trawled through conflicting blogs and websites for some sort of set of rules, re-wrote, re-wrote again, despaired, and finally accepted that this was the best it was guna get. Then I moved on to my synopsis. That was three weeks ago. I still haven't finished it. WHY IS IT SO HARD?

But everyone thinks it's hard, and after masses of procrastination and whining I've finally got on with it, and have a draft that still needs a lot of polishing, but is at least better than the blank page I was sighing over.

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