What's in a name?

The title of the blog.

I'm writing this blog to get used to the idea that, if I'm ever to be published, I should have an online presence of some sort, besides which it provides a good way to 'write myself in' on some days, then go off and toil away with pen and paper over my novel!

A Sulu is a Fijian word for a sarong. The book that I'm writing is largely set in Fiji, so for me Sulus in Somerset is a way of combining the two locations. Chronicles of chaos - the strapline - is hopefully self-evident should you read any of the other posts in this blog!

I'm currently re-writing and editing the manuscript for my first novel. Sometimes this means going off on tangents and wondering how many books I'm trying to write in one go, at other times I sit and stare at the wall and wonder when the heck inspiration is going to hit home! Like many other aspiring writers, I can spend hours, if not days, with brain ache really working at a few sentences or paragraphs that simply won't flow; and then sit in a cafe whilst a child is training and write a chapter in an hour and a half - often the first is necessary for the latter to happen.

With all children at school, I have become accustomed to wandering between my pads of A4 paper and the computer at will, (being a Luddite I still prefer to write in long-hand before typing something up, not the case for this blog as you can probably tell); with children at home for exams, that freedom of flow has been disrupted. We have a laptop, two in fact. The one designated for parental use chose the onset of study leave to pack up, the other is in constant use by teens, all assuring me of their absolute need for its use and who am I to argue with GCSEs/AS etc in full flow? So there is a clamour over this computer. I snatch moments, such as these, when my offspring are in full exam panic and sitting at desks answering impossible questions in exam halls, to make corrections to my script, type up new ideas and to write this.

My mind is invariably in the world of the book, and all the things I'm going to have to do in order to try and get it published, what I'm going to do if it isn't, do I begin the next one, go back to the day job...these brief blogs give a glimpse of what happens when I rear my head above the parapet and realise there are other things going on out there!