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We don’t get out much…

 

Conversations with good friends - it may be months between meetings, but it's as if we last met only a few days ago.
Conversations with good friends – it may be months between meetings, but it’s as if we last met only a few days ago.

 

Writing can be a lonely job.

We spend most of our time chained to a computer, or a notebook, talking to people who exist only in our own heads.

It has been said that the only person who really understands a writer is another writer.

That may or may not be true, but there’s no doubt that friendships between writers are very important – and rather special.

Yesterday the London Chapter of the Romantic Novelists association held its Christmas lunch… and I was reminded so forcefully why my writer friends are so important to me.

 

 

 

Always happy to see each other - and to share the highs and lows of this crazy job we all love.
Always happy to see each other – and to share the highs and lows of this crazy job we all love.

 

No-one is too embarrassed to wear a party hat or play a party game
No-one is too embarrassed to wear a party hat or play a party game

 

We laugh with each other - never at each other.
We laugh with each other – never at each other.

 

And we all get the same Jane Austen inspired jokes.
We all get the same Jane Austen inspired jokes.

 

And all the gaily wrapped presents waiting to be delivered are book-shaped.
And all the gaily wrapped presents waiting to be delivered are book-shaped.

It may be a tad early, but I’m sending seasons greetings to writers everywhere – to my friends, acquaintances and all those I have never met. Love books. Love writing. Love writers.