At least you're meeting people at your overpriced, churlish waitstaff café office. :)
So, the smoothie was good, and it sounds like you got to know Lisa some. Did she elaborate on the novel at all? :)
At least you're meeting people at your overpriced, churlish waitstaff café office. :)
So, the smoothie was good, and it sounds like you got to know Lisa some. Did she elaborate on the novel at all? :)
Yes. I really enjoyed the company and hope we will do it again soon.
She said it's a crime novel. A barrister from Brighton gets murdered and she was talking about the research she had to do as her main character crosses the Nepalese bodrer illegally.
She was getting all excited talking about it and asked if I wanted to hear about how she came up with her main character but I said I needed to finish my blog post. I felt a bit mean but I hadn't done any "work" at that point and we'd already been chatting for over an hour.
I'll try and make a point of asking about him if we meet again. I hope we do though. She was an interesting woman! 😊
Well, hopefully. I'd also hope she wouldn't take offense. If it had been me you told no thank you, I'd be okay with it because if I were there to write my novel, I'd want to get back to it myself. We all think it's exciting and clever how we come up with our characters, stories, etc. I've been learning it's never as exciting or as clever to others as it is in my own head.
At least not until you become a very popular and well known author. Then, you might be able to get away with it, but primarily because people are there to specifically see you and learn about those things as opposed to wanting to work on their own things in a café. :)
I think she was fine. As you say she just got on with her writing. I am genuinely interested in continuing the conversation. I was just a bit panicked because I had a load of other stuff to do today and had intended to "work" flat out this morning and we'd already been chatting for more than an hour.