Lari’s Writing blog

After all my stress (see previous post) about being nominated for two awards on the same day, it all worked out fine.  I didn’t need to summon up an evil twin, I didn’t need to time travel or manage an out of body experience.  However I did win one!  The Big Bottom Hunt won the Heart of Hawick Picture Book Award, which was voted for by Primaries 1, 2 and 3 pupils in lots of schools in and around Hawick.  And the prize, oddly, is a beautiful carving of a heron, which leads wonderfully into my next picture book!

So, that was a good week (win one, lose one seems fair enough – and congratulations to Tommy Donbavand, who won the Hackney Short Novel competition), and now I want to turn my thoughts to writing the next book.  It’s amazing how a pat on the back from real readers can help you overcome a lot of very early mornings and a lot of rattly Borders buses to say – Chapter One, here I come…