Hello from Hayling Island, an island just off the south coast of England! 5 to 8 hours later than America so if you are up and writing in the middle of the night I will probably be around. I am an obsessive writer, I just need to focus on writing something publishable.
Nice to meet you Manic I'm up near Inverness Basically I am on the coast directly North of you near enough, just keep going until you hit the coast at the top. Hayling Island is nice place to be.
Neville Shute lived here in the late 1940s and early 1950s before he emigrated to Australia. He owned a beautiful house called Pond Head and I have visited his study where he wrote some of his books. I still have a dream of owning that house and writing in that study one day!
I have been to Hayling Island, I lived in Winchester whilst at university, went on a day trip. My area had a legion of 19th century writers which I love, we also had one of the biggest publishers of the era, his house is now an accountants lol
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