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No Nationals for me either, I'm afraid. Perhaps one day...

I'm going to my very first RWAustralia conference in August and I have to admit that I'm really looking forward to that!

I hope the writing is flowing for everyone. 

Mmm, chocolate self-saucing pudding. Yum, Euri!

Yay, Claire, on Chase Mattner making one of the top 10 boys of summer. But then he is a bit of a honey  (Michelle says, fanning her face).

Liz, you've cured me of wanting to fly into the mist - something I was tempted to do this morning with a story I'm struggling with. Flying into the mist seemed a whole lot easier than working out what's wrong with this story. But, as you can see, I decided to distract myself with the internet instead. (Note to self: No internet before midday!) 

Congratulations, Liz - that's excellent news! 

I can't wait to read it.

And I have to ask... Was it really that much harder than the 52 books that preceded it? 

Wishing you smooth Caramello Koala's from hereon. 

Michelle 

Great article, Donna. I'm a firm believer that a writer is a person who writes.

Still... when someone asks me what I do, I have to take a deep breath before I declare loud and proud that I'm a writer. I don't know why but I always expect someone to say, 'No you're not. You're a fake!'

Perhaps I should answer with, 'I'm an insecure writer.' 

Congratulations on getting the book in. And commiserations on the horrid aching neck. Which reminds me, I have to look into those exercises one should do when sitting at a desk and/or computer for a long time. When I'm writing, I have a terrible tendency to sit in one position for 3hrs moving nothing but my hand - and I fear I shall pay for that somewhere down the track.

I love Hauge's idea of a character moving from their identity to their essence. What is the name of the DVD seminar that you bought - it sounds fab!

Hope everyone had great weekends. 

Does that really mean you've given birth to 50 pineapples, Liz? Your books always sounds to fluid and smooth to me. But I guess, getting them that way is sometimes the pineapple part.

 I did find a coffee shop, ladies. And I did toast you all with my hot chocolate. I couldn't find one with fairy dust, so I chose one with chili instead (if fairy dust is orange, at a pinch we could make do with chili powder). Mmm, the slow burn. It was divine and seemed particularly apt for romance.

Hope every one is having a great weekend. 

Donna, maybe it's something about the number 3. Shall be very interested to discover what my readers will make of this book (though I shall have to wait till March next year). I did make my editor cry - which I hear is supposed to be a good thing (as long as one doesn't count making her cry with frustration prior to that  )

And your book 5 was sprinkled with fairy dust. I'm getting a picture of a steaming mug of hot chocolate with marshmallows and... glitter. Hmm, haven't had a hot choc in such an age, and it's winter in sunny Australia (a top of 23 degrees Celsius so we're not exactly freezing yet).

Yep, shall have to go out and find a coffee shop. Shall toast you all.

PS Are you in Halifax yet, Donna? 

Am sighing in envy, Melissa.

Maybe one day...

So there is such a thing out there then guys - the easy book?

None of my books have been what I could call easy - but this last book was just Soooooo much harder than anything else (and yes I learned heaps and it was a valuable experience. I'm also glad it was my 3rd book rather than my 2nd or I'd have thought the 1st a fluke).

Although I talk about wanting to know the secret to the easy book, I suspect if I found a book easy to write I'd be awful suspicious of it and think I'd done something majorly wrong - like having left out the conflict or something.

Melissa, did you doubt your hot choc book or did you just enjoy it?