Writing on, and on, and on...

I am neglecting this blog horrifically at the moment (partly because I plan on closing it within a month or two, and launching something new ... more on that later!)

The Office Diet is going strong, especially with my good friend Lorna providing guest posts (a real blessing when I'm running short on ideas.) I'm now on 110 subscribers ... quite an increase on the 67 three weeks ago :-) Helped in part by yesterday's guest post on http://www.crankyfitness.com/ which brought in quite a few readers.

In other writing news:

• I've completed all three of the feature articles for Daily Writing Tips and the first has been published, "Creative Writing 101". It's met with a good reception in the comments, and quite a few links from other sites.
• I wrote a guest post for Freelance Switch after they opened up for submissions a week or so ago; they asked me to revise it a bit, so I did, and they're going to publish it :-) And pay $60 which is none too shabby. I'll pop the link here once it goes up ...
• Mum and I have sent in our bookings for Winchester; I've got appointments with two agent/editor types and need to organise some material to send in advance. Going to pitch The Office Diet to one and another non-fiction thing I've been working (sloooowly) on to another.

Other stuff which has been going on:

• I've finally finished my "Bible in a Year" book. I started it in September 2005... which may give some indication of how good (or otherwise) I am at doing Bible reading daily.
• The St Nicholas Church Holiday Club website I've created is up, though it needs a bit more work.
• I'm learning CSS/PHP to make my own Wordpress template for my next blog ... it's going to be a combination of a relaunch of this one, a site to promote my writing & freelancing, and some long articles (even maybe e-books) on stuff I want to write but don't currently have much outlet for. More on that once I get a bit further with it. I strongly recomment http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/19/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh/ if you want to have a go at doing your own wordpress them, it starts VERY basic and goes slowly. I managed to complete the whole tutorial from ... about 5pm yesterday to 11am this morning.
• I've started leading Junior Church, had them last week (lovely bunch of kiddies) and leading again tomorrow. Great to be getting back into youth work again!

That's pretty much it for now... and I'm starting to realise why the last few weeks have felt busy!