Remember outside? Me too.

I am an introvert. I’ve always been happiest at home, but even I am getting to the point where it would be nice to go somewhere. For an ice cream or a frappe. Hell, I’d settle for a walk around a garden centre.

Of course, my day-dreaming mind always takes me to London. It’s the perfect day for wandering the sights of the city, stopping for an iced coffee or a beer, walking along the river and eating outside at a riverside restaurant. Maybe drinking a bit more wine, followed by more coffee. I am a writer after all.

Mostly, I just miss the freedom to go anywhere, even knowing if I had the freedom, I’d probably still be in my garden.

I understand the lockdown and I agree with it, and it’s times like these I’m happy to have my busy imagination, because as I sit at my garden table, I can sip wine and imagine I’m in London or in Whitby, sitting in a café that overlooks a river or the sea, and I can imagine a time I will be there in reality.

In isolation imagination is key.

In isolation take to your daydreams.

Lockdown Imagination

I’m lucky in this time of quarantine that my hobbies are so well suited to isolation.

Besides writing obviously, my current interests are visiting property websites to view houses I can’t afford, checking out cars I can’t afford, and researching fertility treatments I many never be able to afford.

If you’d asked me years ago where I saw myself at thirty-eight years old, this wasn’t it. This wasn’t even close. I thought I’d be a super-successful writer, married with kids and living in a house of my own.

Reality looks a little different. Not that there aren’t good things about being thirty-eight, single and living with my parents, but you know, it wasn’t exactly the dream.

The thing about being locked down at home, it gives a person time to think about what they want from life. A lot of time to think.

In my day job I’m classed as an essential worker, so I still go out to work, but all the other things have been removed, which like I said, is where my interests come in handy. I still know what I want out of life, and now all I do is think about it.

I have dreams of sitting on Butler’s Wharf, eating nice food, drinking wine and overlooking Tower Bridge, but mostly what I want is to be a writer and to have a family.

I guess when you concentrate a person’s thoughts, true desires burst forward. But mine are still at their core, what they have always been.

I want to write, I want a baby and a trip to London would be nice.

It’s April 22nd 2020!

It’s a pleasure to meet you!

I’m Kelly. I’m a British indie writer among other things. I have a day job, I have hobbies, and I have a dog.

Those are the basics. Those are a few things about me.

Today is my day off so I’m taking time to update all my socials, blogs and website, before I settle down for an afternoon and evening of writing romance.

Romance is my favourite genre to write. I like paranormal and scifi most of all, but I’m also partial to some contemporary. My current WIP is a shifter romance, which is in the editing phase and will hopefully be finished and ready for publication soon.

At the moment, in lockdown, I still go to work because I’m considered to be an essential worker, and then I come home, and I write. I also sew, knit, and cross-stitch. For my one hour of exercise as permitted by the UK government I walk my furbaby, avoiding people as best I can so as not to endanger anyone.

I sit in the garden to write a lot at the moment too. Partly because it’s a chance to be outside in the sun, and partly because my dog is really bossy and she makes me by barking until I give in. What can I say? I’m a crazy dog lady and she’s my baby.

For those of you who don’t know me, that’s a little intro from me to you.