Peter Stanley's Scribbling Corner

Peter Stanley’s foray into writing was academic, while spearheading his first community development project within his local disabled persons’ community. A trained social worker, the last decade and a half had him work in customer care, qualitative research, supported employment, supporting his peers within the disabled community, and presently as a career coach. He hails from Gdynia, in Poland, but New Zealand has been home for forty odd years now.

4 Dec 2014

Oranges, so far so good

So I wanted to write a small update about an upcoming title, Oranges. My editor Jax had this to say:

Well so far it's a solid story - the writing needs some work, but I think you expected that...

To be honest with you, I had expected the draft to be all over the place; much like a drunken sailor on a rollercoaster, but in word form.

Being told that it's solid is nice, heart warming. Okay, Jax said that the writing needed some work, but that is to be expected as I wrote the piece back in 2011 after all. My writing has changed since then, evolved even. At least Jax and Nigel seem to think so, as have my other friends who had the pleasure (or is it misfortune?) of reading my attempts throughout the years.

Right, back to work . . .