X Factor finished last night. Joe won. And I'll admit, for the first time since the X Factor started, I'm gonna buy the winning single. I haven't brought the single for a winner of a talent show since Pop Idol 2. I hope Joe breaks the X Factor winners curse as it were. Where the male winners seem to be around for a few months then sink into nothingness and the female winners do really well. Like the reverse of the Pop Idol winners curse (but then with only two winners it's not much), where the male winners (I.E. Will Young) have done well, and the female winners (I.E Michelle McManus), haven't.
Anyway, my creative writing course has broken up for the Christmas break last week. And it's a long one. 4 weeks. But at least that gives me time to write the 1,500 word short story I need to write to hand in when we come back. I've made a start on it but it's very hard. I'm not very good at writing short stories with that many words.
Also I'm near to finishing the first draft of A Year In The Life Of Tori Susan Evans. I've noticed something about spending the year working on a first draft and that as it comes to an end, it's a little sad. Even if as soon as the New Year starts I'll be working on the first draft of the second Tori Susan Evans book. Maybe it's just me and my strangeness.
What else seems to be ending as the year ends? Not my time in retail that's for sure. My year of looking has come up with nothing so far. I didn't even get any response to all the cover letters I sent out to all the offices within a five mile radius of where I live. I've even started sending out cover letters to different retail stores in the hope they might give me a full time job. Somewhere that doesn't get too busy during the week. Maybe a book store. I'd like to work in a book store. Ok, so the Christmas season will still be busy, but I think I can cope with that.
It's WiP Wednesday, Honest!
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