Hello!

It seems I can't keep away from writing for long. I've just started the first chapter of my submission for Nanowrimo, the National Novel Writing Month. You can find my user profile and learn more about it here.

Paul in the SVQ department at Cornerstone first told me about it, and I thought it would be a great idea as I'd actually have motivation to write with the potential of winning something, and also I'd be working to a deadline - I guess I'm just one of those people that work best when under pressure.

I've almost decided what I'm going to write about, and am just at the stage when I need the final push to get started. Once I get going, it's almost as though I'm on automatic, when everything else becomes irrelevant and the whole thing just seems to flow. So I'll be hoping to come out the other side with something reasonably good. Watch this space for more.

Talking of articles, I've been busy on the shooting front as well. The new Disability Shooting Project founded by Liz Woodall of the NSRA was set up a couple of months back. Naturally, I was on the phone to her right away to see how I could be involved, and it turned out they were happy to publish an article on the Scottish Championships. Read it here. I also had an article on the same event written by a fellow shooter but edited by me published in the Autumn 2009 issue of Target Magazine (BBS). Read that here.

As if that weren't enough, I've another article due to the NSRA next week, an introduction to acoustic shooting for those not familiar with the sport. This is a fantastic publicity opportunity and one, which will hopefully raise the profile of the sport amongst able-bodied shooters. I'll be pushing for that to be placed on the NSRA website too, and you'll have a link to it here just as soon as it goes live.

Finally, just this evening I decided to enter a competition being run by STV. They're looking for a writer to work a six-month freelance contract writing articles for their website. The winner will win the contract, but I expect it to be tough competition. Also, it's short articles, (which for anyone that knows me is not something I'm terribly good at!) but I live for the challenge.

Happy reading, and for anyone else doing Nanowrimo, writing as well.