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