Variety in a Life of Spice

Well, I’ve decided that I’m officially a writer now. I am practising saying to people who ask, “I am a part-time teacher – and a part time writer”. All right, I know that I’m not actually earning any money for it yet, and therefore can’t count myself as a professional, but the point is that I’m doing enough of it, and taking it seriously enough, to count it as a job rather than a hobby. And who knows, when one of my four current projects is finished, it might actually make some money.
Yesterday I was in Birmingham at a Production Meeting (I have written it with capital letters because I am saying it in a Very Important Voice). I am a Writer for a Project called Balance (more important voice) about which I am not going to say too much more here because it isn’t being advertised yet; but I am writing an animation screenplay, which I have never done before, with a lovely animating lady who is very much more experienced in it than I am, and the whole thing is being sponsored and distributed by a large and worthy charity. I’m excited enough about it to go into all the ins and outs of the project, but I had better not because the manager might eat me if I do it before the proper website is up.
In other writing news, I have one book on the go currently being read by 45 teenage girls on the internet; I’m on a Writing For Children Course about which I have done nothing at all so far; and I still have my http://www.nanowrimo.org novel to finish as well. I know exactly what’s going to happen in it now. All I need is time.
And that’s why, dear readers, I have started to call myself a Writer.

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