No progress on the book today but there is a very good reason. I’ve spent all day stressing over a five hundred word personal statement for an application. It’s not for a job but it’s more for this.
http://www.wigtownbookfestival.com/opportunities/mentoring-programme-writers-dumfries-galloway
I tripped up on this on Twitter the other night thankfully. I am indeed a Dumfries and Galloway based writer (I was even born here) and I am indeed halfway through a rather large writing project. With that in mind some professional guidance would be very much appreciated.
I had to get over my usual problem of a voice in my head telling me that I need not bother because I’m probably not what they’re looking for anyway. I’m writing a hokey science fiction book with a Scottish sense of humour in it. The doubter in me said that they’d probably want something deadly serious. I was better not bothering, it would be a waste of time.
But that’s the part that’s spent a good few years in control and got me bugger all.
So I’m entering this regardless of if they want hokey Scottish science fiction or not.
Because they can just say ‘No’ right?
