Happy birthday!

[altariel]

Hope I'm not too late to say happy birthday vilakins!

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[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

I will add my best birthday wishes to your post. vilakins has given me such encouragement during the long and painful process of writing my first novel. Have a lovely bubbly birthday!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's not: there's 20 minutes to go. :-) Thank you!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I had a great day (yay for birthdays that fall on the weekend)!

I want to read the finished work one day. I'm sure it will be in bookshops one day. You're a very talented writer.

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Deadline for finishing draft 2 is Sunday 7 May. I'm packing myself off to an artists retreat centre to make sure I GET IT DONE (gulp!)

Enjoy the rest of the your birthday weekend. Any chance it's a Bank Holiday?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

So you have a deal? Well, go you! :-D

Nah, we're done with those till one in June and one in October. We did get last Wednesday off (ANZAC day) which was good.

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

No, it's a self-imposed deadline. haven't gone next nigh or near an agent yet, nowhere near ready :-)

Have an Australian friend and he says the emotions roused by Anzac Day still run pretty high. Doesn't surprise me. I didn't do much research on the Turkish campaign but my mother was there, standing where the defending Turks would have been. Fish in a barrel, basically :(

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Allow me to add my good wishes - I didn't know you had birthday, but I hope it was a nice one.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

A lot of people make the trip to Gallipoli, but ANZAC day now stands for all war, and I'd say the traditional poppies are from Flanders. There's still a huge turnout for dawn parades and services. We don't forget.

It's not well known but NZ lost more people per capita than any other country in WW2. (And look how the British treat us now.)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It was, thank you very much!

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Indeed I did not know that. Thank you for letting me know.