I discovered this today 29/09/2021 When I first began to blog I had a lot of trouble with my computer and as a beginner I found it very difficult. I frequently gave up and then later I would start a new blog.
- Name: Victoria Wild
- Location: Brittany, France
I am retired and I live in France with my cat. My daily priorities are writing , painting and gardening. This blog is supposed to keep me on task! Wild Women don't get the Blues so I intend to use this blog to sound off so that I do not repress my anger. I can get wildly enthusiastic about life too!
Love/hate/commputers
I finally had to change to the new format which I resisted 'til today. I have to use google why?I sent a story/first chapter of my novel to an 'Authors' Advisory service. I receiced no advice but a complete hatchet job. The story is called 'The Crimplene Dress' and the 'reader' seemed to react violently to the word crimplene and wrote a paragraph of verocious invective about crimplene nothing about the suitability of the title to the story. Well I didn't slit my throat and I shall continue to write even though reading between the lines of my so called advice I should never do again.
I have fallen behind somewhat in the plant a tree a day front. I hope to catch up by planting two a day.
I really must risk connecting to the net at home as I find it too difficult timewise to use internet cafés etc.
Love/hate/commputers
I finally had to change to the new format which I resisted 'til today. I have to use google why?I sent a story/first chapter of my novel to an 'Authors' Advisory service. I receiced no advice but a complete hatchet job. The story is called 'The Crimplene Dress' and the 'reader' seemed to react violently to the word crimplene and wrote a paragraph of verocious invective about crimplene nothing about the suitability of the title to the story. Well I didn't slit my throat and I shall continue to write even though reading between the lines of my so called advice I should never do again.
I have fallen behind somewhat in the plant a tree a day front. I hope to catch up by planting two a day.
I really must risk connecting to the net at home as I find it too difficult timewise to use internet cafés etc.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Writing
I have been writing so much lately, short stories and poems and my novel that I rarely have time to write this blog which proves it works!! Reading at the moment also stimulating 'Orlando' by Virginia Woolfe very inspiring. I saw a performance of this some years ago and I didn't understand a word of it; so I never wanted to read the book. I found the book amazing. I am suprised that anyone would want to perform something which works so well in words and is mostly experiencing someones internal thoughts. I found an old copy of Charles Dickens ' Le Grillon du Foyer' in French. It must be one of his early books. I have never heard of it before.Friday, February 02, 2007
computer success
At last I have found out how to write longer email messages without the page expiring. I had learned how to do it before on my laptop but didn't realise how to do it in the internet cafe.I have written a short story and dug out two that I had written years ago. I typed them uo and now I am goitn to send them of to competions. Wish me luck. I normally say nothing when I send stuff away but it seems not to influence my success or failure
Monday, January 29, 2007
Wild about life again at last
I feel as though I have recovered finally from all the bereavements I suffered in the first year after moving here. I know we never stop grieving but we can continue to live happily whilst never forgetting those we have lost. And the pain never completly goes away.I am wild about writing and gardening just now. I have started a writing group which had it's first meeting last Friday and gave me a real boost. I haven't stopped writing since.
Also a writer friend in England has been really supportive. We ring frequently for mutual support. Thirdly I have had another letter printed in Writers' Forum. Yeh! I know it's not much but it keeps me bouyant.
In the garden I have constructed a raised garden. I made the sides from woven hazel branches cut from my own tree. I never knew that gardening could be so much pleasure. The daffodils are beginning to show and a friend here has two in flower. My mimosa tree has survived the frost so far but shows no sign of flowering as yet like all the other mimosa trees I seen.
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