Priscilla

Wow! Priscilla Queen of the Desert was wonderful.

It had just about everything you could hope for in a show:

• great music
• fabulous costumes
• laughter and tears (mostly tears of laughter)
• camp as all get out
• a message

I defy anyone to watch that show and not be glad to be gay - whatever that might mean for you.

Too much of a good thing

I've been thinking how thin the line is between good things and too many good things.

We've just been away to Yorkshire with family and it was great. We're going tomorrow to London for the weekend and it will be great. But the two are too close together so it feels not so great.

It's a bit like a lovely meal. I've started to think that I would enjoy a special meal better if I could have the main course one day and the dessert a few days later.

Same idea.

We need the familiar routine of work and home with special treats spread judiciously across the year. However we're planning to enjoy London and Priscilla Queen of the Desert (the show).

And we'll soon be back to normal. Whatever that is ...

Keep writing

If you want to earn your living, or even part of your living as a writer here's what you need to know:

1. Accept that you write what other people want. Most of us can't make money only writing what we feel like writing. We depend on commissions. Some of them are boring.
2. Self starting and self monitoring are essential skills. If you can't work from home and actually get stuff done on time you probably won't make it as a writer.
3. Meet your deadlines and people come back to you - as long as the work is good of course.
4. Be warm, approachable and honest with your clients. They like you for it and ... they come back.
5. If you really love writing do some for fun. Start that novel; write articles for magazines that pay peanuts; jot down your thoughts and observations in a note book. Who knows, one day you might be the kind of writer who writes what you really want to write. That's until the editor gets hold of it of course.