If the tip of your nose is cold then it is scientifically proven your first novel will be a bestseller

It isn't, that's a lie. But just put another jumper on as my Granny always said. No one can write in a overheated funk. The second post about life writing retreat at Château de Sacy

At 7am and at 7pm the bells of Sacy-le-Petit’s church toll 100 times to raise the population of 624 people up and to work and then 12 hours later in from the fields. Of course, not many of them work in the fields now, but this centuries old tradition continues. I used these bells to signal the time to do a morning writing session as soon as the eyes are…