Thursday, 21 March 2013
what a wonderful world
I have been away from the blog because I am writing a lot. First of all I spent the last few days working on the Portuguese version of the The Truth Never Dies. Mr.Anxiety here received the file from the translator and sent straight into the publishing company before even - EVEN - doing a quick double check. Result; when I got the Portuguese version to read on the train on my way back from the Cotswold I had a massive chock. Many many errors. Result 2; I spent a week going through the whole manuscript checking and re-typing. The publishing house will send off to a a professional proof read anyway...BUT there were a lot of errors that only I as the author would be able to recognise.
Second of all I am now working on the first editing of my new novel/romance. Which means going through the whole manuscript, 330 pages, and retyping in order to ensure consistency in the story and adding or taking parts out. After the 1st editing I will do a 2nd and then a 3rd time until it finally goes to the professional full proof reading.
Anyways... That's why I have been away from the blog. Which I miss...here I share my thoughts and bits of my soul. Here it's like my bedroom when I was a teenage, it's my playground, my comfort zone...my man cave - and so on.
I blog for over 10 years. Before I was blogging on www.superne.zip.net and there I have a huge collection of memories from the day I arrived in London up to the day I went to live in Spain.
Reading through my earlier blog I remembered situations, some good, some fun, some tough that I went through in my life, alone, in London and the first thing it came out in my mind was; "Wow, how many amazing people I met. People/friends/work colleagues/work colleagues that became friends/friends that became like family people that made life so much easier/nicer and most times gave me hope. Knowing such amazing people always give me hope in life as if God was saying; Yep.There are a lot of amazing people in this World. Forget the bad focus on the good, the good at heart and thanks God I have had the blessings to have met some wonderful people in this planet.
My advice is always; filter the bad, keep only the good. As you would do to anything in life such food; material things etc...do the same with your relations, with the people around you. Keep only the ones that add love and good things to your life.