After more than a month's mental preparation, I began writing my new story yesterday. I had made quite extensive handwritten notes last week, and I wrote about 600 words in a single session of about 2 hours. Not many perhaps, but now I have found my "stylistic technique" all that remains to be done is the work of putting it on paper. I think it will be quite short, perhaps no longer than 2000 words. The plan is to have completed it before I go away: about 3 weeks.
But today is a day for a long lie-in, with a trip out to the coast to see my mum who is actually looking a little better, though I'm still not sure she's eating properly. We found most of her meals-on-wheels packs in the fridge, where they are ruined because they should be frozen.
"Well, it doesn't really matter; I didn't like them much anyway" was her breezy response.
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