I'm back!

Hello, my sweet rainy London! It's been more than forty days since we've been apart but I have returned now, with even more writing tricks up my sleeve. Don't believe me? Check this out:

I waited by the front door for the postman to arrive so I could catch him before he rang the bell and woke Mum.

Fed up of watching her parents slip closer to death, Farren Biratba had left the Ley City hospital abruptly, and nobody had seen her in two days.

Yep, that's right: I totally just let you read the opening sentences of my two main stories. The first one is a collaboration story I'm writing with my good friend Daniel and I can't remember if I've mentioned it before now. We take turns writing the chapters, from different character's POV and if it's anything like our personalities, the story is insanely mad. In a good way naturellement (because a nice bit of Google-translated French is always cool). So far, we're up to chapter four but already have plans for the television spin-off series, million-pound budget film and how we won't let the fame from our success go to our heads. We're that grounded in reality.

The second one is the story I've been planning for about 150 years, which I summed up at the end of this blog post a while ago. If you've already read it, then you don't have to read it again. But if you haven't, then we are no longer friends and you're not invited to my birthday party. Somebody call the fire department because you just got BURNED.

Don't let my light-hearted humour (oh, is that what I was doing?) fool you though. Jet lag meant I went to sleep at 3am and got up after four hours rest. I also did a morning workout that made me embarrassed to even know what the word "press up" means. Oh yeah, it's definitely going to take me a while to get back into the swing of things...

On an unrelated note, it's taking me FOREVER to type up everything I wrote in my notebook-diary while on holiday. Okay, maybe not "forever" forever but it's been three days and I still have a month's worth of stuff to type up!

If that's got you thinking I wrote for an entire month without stopping, then you are entirely wrong. What I mean is that since I was writing in a diary, my words went over the dates so I essentially wrote on pages January 4th to February 26th. January 1st has my souvenir list, the 2nd is blank and the 3rd has a beautifully inked family tree for one of the characters in Venture Crew, complete with pictures. They're actually my favourite family because I got the idea for their names while in Trinidad. It's a pity they only show up for one chapter.

Anyway my minions, I'll leave you to have a fabulous day, ending with two photos from my holiday. The first and last pictures I took with my phone (it would have been my camera but silly me left it at home).

This is me at 6am, getting ready to
whizz my British butt to the airport.

A beautiful sunset after a full day at the beach. The previous
sentence was designed to make you jealous. You're welcome.