It’s been a busy few months and so I haven’t had time to blog but recently I watched ‘Tick Tick…BOOM!’. I know I’m a bit late to the party with this movie! I was reluctant to watch it because no one had recommended it, and I don’t tend to watch a lot of films on my own. I’m so glad I did watch it though. The combination of songs and story were so inspiring.

As a writer I could relate to the struggle of whether to carry on with something no-one might ever see. I got to the end of my first novel and thought it was the only one I’d ever write. Like Jonathan Larson I’d poured years into writing it and when I realised I needed to start again I wanted to have a tantrum and stamp my feet!

But I didn’t. I’ve got another three stories ticking around in my head and I’m currently still editing ‘Reflections’. I’ll write a blog at some point about where I’ve got to. I’m being brutal with all ‘state of being verbs’! I’d never heard of them until recently but removing them as much as possible is making the prose much better.

It’s easy to get bogged down when you’re working on the same thing for so long. Fortunately working with Cadence Publishing means I also have other people’s work to read and edit which brings a welcome relief from the tedium of arguing with the word ‘was’!

If you like musicals and want to be swept away, I can’t recommend ‘Tick Tick…Boom!’ Highly enough. But be warned, you will be singing these songs for weeks afterwards!