Fame! (Well, kind of)

Hi Guys,

How's it going? Things here at "I want a word" are pretty good - the words are still coming in, slowly but surely, and I'm now up to a grand total of 46. That still may not sound that impressive, and I know that there's a long way to go, but I'm pretty chuffed just to have made it this far.

I'm pleased to say that there have been a few developments since my last blog entry. Last Sunday I was featured in the Sunday Post, a Scottish national newspaper, which was pretty exciting. I'd been interviewed by their reporter about six weeks earlier, so was starting to give up hope of the article ever appearing in the paper, but there it was. It was a bit tucked away, on page 64, but I was still quite pleased, and relieved that the picture wasn't too bad! Unfortunately the Sunday Post website isn't really that great, and only features about 5 news stories per week. As mine was on page 64, you probably won't be surprised to hear that it didn't make it onto the website...

"I want a word" did make another appearance on the web this week though - on the biblioatry blog, run by my myspace friend "bibliolatrist". She gave a nice little summary of the project, as well as some other interesting reading/writing info, so I'd thoroughly recommend that you check out her blog!

And as if that wasn't enough for one week, I discovered that "I want a word" actually received a mention in a podcast. Mark Putnam, the coordinator of the plotastic project, did an interview with "The Writing Show", and gave me a mention, which was nice. Or at least I hope it was. Owing to the rather low-tech nature of "I want a word" HQ I haven't actually been able to listen to the mp3 recording of the interview. If anyone else is interested, you can download it here, and please do let me know what's said!

Thanks for checking out my blog.

Chris

www.iwantaword.com