It does sound a bit much, doesn’t it? Also, I have a dilemma: I have to edit book 1, type up and do a rough edit of book 2, and write book 3 (again by hand: I feel my work is so much more coherent and cohesive when I can connect directly with the page). But which to do first? I’ve been writing so much my right hand has turned into a stiff claw mottled with bruises; but that’s no reason to stop…
I hope you’re well, lovely, and that everything is going so much better. You truly deserve a “lovely day” or a thousand.
Do we reckon Ms James will ever try her hand at attempting to write a book (if someone helps her to spell out the polysyllabic (that means ‘long’, Ms James) words and confiscates her phone/flushes it down the lavatory?
Also, have we ever seen any example or indication that Alf is writing? Or is that a hopeless wish? I certainly can’t imagine Ms James sitting with him and patiently teaching him his ABCs, can you? On the other hand, if she doesn’t become bored with Exclusively Breastfed
Baybee Gurl once she’s weaned and has developed a distinct personality of her own, rather than acting as a mere extension of her narcissistic ‘mother’, she’ll be writing Dickinsonian and Joycean prose and poetry by the age of 23/4…