<p><span style="font-size: small;">Occasionally the moment arrives when everything that's been worrying you about the work in progress (WIP) falls away and the words drop into the screen.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;">Next, after such an occasion, you send the completed piece off to an editor to read. They may hoard it, delete it accidentally, or on purpose, or send it back with an apologetic 'not this century, thanks' type note.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;Or, they may say, I'm interested in this. How about if...</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;">Filled with confidence at such a reply you get to work: and work: and then again you work.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;">That's where I'm at folks. How does anybody else get the original synopsis out of their head and run along the editor's suggested new rails?</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: small;">The engineer has been and for a blissful hour the light may have shone unobserved on our Broadband home-hub. We were having lunch upstairs. Come the phone call from the call-centre to find out how it was for us and up goes the 'no-broadband' connection notice. This one may well run and run. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;">In the rest of my life, I've completed a plot plan for a novella. This is new for me on two counts. I've not tried the novella length before and I've never completed a plot plan. I'm still waiting for a decision from the publishers I sent the last one to, so a novella length seemed like a good in-between answer to the waiting game.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;">While the engineer was here, I boiled up some marmalade pulp.&nbsp;The enforced stillness waiting for the pot to boil and settle back into a 'steady rolling boil' allowed me to&nbsp;come up with an article idea. I'll now have to get covered in dust and cowebs while I search for the photographs to send with it. Now that we may be re-connected that sort of thing should become possible again.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;">On the other hand, the Gremlin landing pad on our roof wasn't a victim of the recent gales...</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></p>