Elsewhere I’ve posted about writing and this is the month I’m getting really serious about my novel. This is the fifth and final draft. It’s true what everyone says: with your first novel you keep tweaking it because it keeps getting better.

Last week, just when I was about to give up in despair, I had a helpful coffee with a fellow writer friend. She helped me add some complication to a plot that was sounding as staid and boring as tomorrow’s soap opera episode: Insert title of American, Egyptian, or Turkish soap here.

I haven’t yet written the scenes so I will keep it under wraps for now. But suffice to say this article in THE INDEPENDENT confirmed the introduction of my new character/plot line!

Have any thoughts of your own on English men and romance? Am fact piling….

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/english-men-are-useless-ndash-and-heres-the-tv-series-to-prove-it-838879.html