Bloody typical in OD

I post a picture in here of me doing my best 11th Doctor impression, show how cool I look in a bow tie, and what do people concentrate on?

The bloody sling.

So, yes, at the moment I wear a sling. I am slingle.

What happened? Well, it turns out that if you fall over sideways and use your shoulder to break the fall, you will also break your collar bone.

I still maintain that it was an important medical experiment and in absolutely no way caused by me being a drunken idiot.

I’ve got a hospital appointment on the twelfth to get more x-rays done to assess things and, in the meantime, I have to keep wearing it. Which I do, except when in my house (cos there’s no real need to there). Which means I’ll be wearing it on the long train ride to London next weekend.

It also makes writing/typing hard (my last few entries have all been written with one hand) so, of course, the muses have decided this is the ideal time to visit me to work on my book. Which is going great, excet I need to contact some people for fact checking and have no idea how to go about getting hold of the people I need. And, of course, the pain writing causes.

On the upside, I’m going to have a cool lump on my shoulder for the rest of my life!

This week is kinda busy for me. Tonight I have the second Boro tweet up, Sunday, phone my mum for Mothers Day followed by Wrestlemania and next Saturday, London for a meetup of writers/supporters of The Terrible Zodin. I’ll likely have not much money, and I’m still not sure if I’ll be coming back on the red eye bus that night or the next day, but I’m looking forward to it. Truth be told, I wouldn’t miss it. And it’ll take the number of OD folk I’ve met in real life up to 6.

And that’s about it, I think. Actually, wait, there is one other thing.

I’m going to be published in a newspaper! Kinda.

New Writers North are gearing up for this years Regional Reads, celebrating literature from the North-East. They put up an appeal on facebook to find people to read the books and so, loving getting books for nowt, I volunteered. As the first person to respond, I got to choose from all the books and chose Broken Silence by Danielle Ramsey (which’ll also be the next book I review for Twelve in 12). I have to send them a one page review by the 16th, and bits of said review (will probably be the positive stuff) will not only go on the Regional Reads website but also in local newspaper The Journal!

So, yeah.

Apopeal for help a couple of entries back, if you can do so.

And that really is all.

Will