Much more scary than writing a book

I’ve just arranged with Stratford Grammar School for Girls to go in and discuss the book with some of their students on Friday 11th. I always find talking about a book far more daunting than actually writing it. Maybe because when I’m writing I feel like I can change things, work on it until I feel confident in it, before I have to show it to anyone.

I much prefer editing to writing the first draft.  My friend’s got a  postcard which shows a surreal painting of a tightrope walker at night. He’s got one end of the rope tied to a tree and he’s walking along it, paying out the line as he goes, heading for the  moon. That’s kind of what it feels like writing a first draft…

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My friend is brilliant and has  found her postcard on the internet (EVERYTHING is on the internet…). She tells me it’s called Giacomond by Quint Buchholz.

It’s at this link:

http://www.quintbuchholz.de/component/option,com_ponygallery/Itemid,40/func,detail/id,97/