Romy Sommer

Three of my lovely CPs, Sri Pammi , Joanne Pibworth and Suzanne Jones , have played the Lucky 7's game, and even though their excerpts are tough acts to follow, I thought I'd join the fun. Go to the 77th page of your work-in-progress, 7th line down, and paste the next 7 sentences. Then tag 7 others.  Consider yourselves tagged. Here's mine, from my never-ending single title WIP, When September Ends . The heroine, Vivian, is sitting under the bleachers at her old high school with her one-time best friend and boy-next-door, Ryan: “Nothing happened.” “Maybe it should have. Then maybe you wouldn’t have been such an ass on prom night.” “I didn’t want Serena. I only ever wanted you.” Vivian raised the joint to her lips and inhaled deeply. There was only half left and yet she still didn’t feel relaxed. I've now read seven further Lucky 7 contributions from Julie Cohen , Kate Hardy , Kate Jackson , Nicola Marsh , Rachael Johns , Liz Fielding and Teresa Ashby . Th...

For those of you not (yet!) on Twitter, this is the hash tag used by writers for a writing challenge in which writers challenge each other to write a thousand words in one hour. I started doing these a week ago, and in one week I've gone from an hourly average of 450 words to around 1,200 words an hour! The nice thing about a challenge like this is that you're not alone, you're forced to unplug from the net for an hour, and at the end of the hour you report back to the writers you've done the challenge with, so there's accountability! And everyone's a winner, no matter how many words they achieve. In the last week I've added about 8,000 words to my 'Just For Fun' manuscript, now titled When September Ends . And I've also done a film shoot in between and worked some really stupid hours! But sometimes you also just need to take a breather. I discovered, doing Nanowrimo three years running, that just pushing out words doesn't really work ...