Exciting times!

To be honest, I was feeling a bit despondent at the start of the week. I hadn't sold any words since the previous Monday, and I felt like I was struggling to maintain any real momentum with "I want a word".

You can imagine my sense of relief and excitement when I logged on to e-mail account on Monday morning to discover that I had sold another five words, bringing the grand total up to 29. Woo! That may not sound like a huge total, but it was a great feeling just to know that things were once again moving in the right direction.

Things then took another positive turn this morning when I received a phone call from a press agency. They informed me that an article about "I want a word" had appeared in the Herald Express (the local newspaper for Torbay, where I grew up). That was exciting enough in itself, but the press agency also wanted to write a story about "I want a word", so I spent a while this morning sending them pictures and giving a telephone interview. This came totally out of the blue and was a really pleasant surpise: my fingers are now firmly crossed that it could lead to some more coverage elsewhere.

I also discovered in the last few days that "I want a word" has featured in a couple of blogs: it really excites me when I find out that there are people interested enough in the project to give it even a passing mention in their own writings, so that was pretty cool. The furst of these blogs was "Tampa Book Buzz", which I very much enjoyed, and the second was a blog called "Shakespeare I ain't" which described the project as "(a) creativly lazy way to get paid". While I appreciate the sentiment, I can assure them that it has taken a lot of work just to get the project this far, and I don't see that letting up any time soon either!


Keen readers of the blog will remember that in my last entry I asked people to vote for a new choice of profile song for my myspace page, to replace Natasha Bedingfield's "These Words". The response wasn't overwhelming, frankly, but I did receive one reply, from Andy. He came up with a few suggestions, my personal favourite being "Paperback writer" by the Beatles. As yet, I've not found a version of this (or any of the other suggestions) that I can put on my myspace page, but I will keep working on it! In the meantime, I'm going to keep the vote open on a rolling basis, and try and change the song once a week (unless people vote to keep it!), so if you have any suggestions, let me know.

And in the meantime, thanks for checking out my blog.

Chris

http://www.iwantaword.com/