I’m chipping away at my new adult novel – 70,ooo words and counting!  Some of it is set in the world of plastic surgery and I’ve been watching tummy tucks on You Tube (yuck!) and reading all kinds of books and magazines (including an Irish one called Rejuvenate) on the subject – most enlightening.

Novels are funny creatures – you start off with certain ideas in your head and lo and behold they take on a life of their own and go off in strange tangents.

I love my characters – Lulabelle, an ex-Miss Ireland (and plastic surgery fan), Libby Small, a writer, and Celeste Barnacle, a columnist and Libby’s best friend. I know them inside out at this stage – and I’ll be sad to say goodbye to them.

But after nearly a year in their company – not too sad!

Every day I still write my word count down in a little notebook – today I managed 2,052, yesterday (after a school visit in the morning) 2,143, a minor miracle. Monday – 752 – not so good. Anything to keep me motivated.

How do you keep yourself motivated? Do write and let me know. And thanks for all the comments on this blog – nice to see I have some readers.

Sarah X