After the Marathon

Well... we went out for pizza. Everybody was tired, no need to say, but we enjoyed. Thank you very much to our friends at Sfizio (http://www.sfizio.co.uk) who provided the Italian delicacies. Lovely place, lovely pizza and lovely people... And we even got a platter of free cakes!

THEWRITINGMARATHON is now concluded!

23:50 Apologies for the sudden interruption of updates. One hour from publication we started overheating and – also – our school internet connection didn't seem to work anymore. 

So there you are. We wrote a book in one day. I think it's also a good one. It will be available to a restricted number of beta/readers from monday and on sale starting from the end of the Easter holidays.

Thank you to all of you who have followed the marathon online. The writingmarathon is now over but the blog hopefully continues. There will be news about the book, about other publications, other activities and of course about the next writingmarathon. 

You can get in touch sending an email to    thewrittenstuff@gmail.com 

or leaving a post on this blog.

19:30 One hour from publication, all have handed in. Some of us, not yet tired of writing, are now writing their reflections on the day. It would be a good idea for everyone to post some comments about what happened today: definitely admirable teamwork.

18:47 Everyone is handing in their creations. The designer is going crazy. The editor is already. Everyone is trying to make sense of this whole day of writing. We are at the stage in which everything does makes sense – but the opposite to what was planned or initially thought.

17:58 The process of editing is frantic! In theory we are only 2 1/2 hours away from publication and most of us have not yet finished their pieces.

17:19 We realise that there is no real need for a meeting. Everyone is still extremely concentrated. A few of us have already handed in their finished piece. In the meantime, the designer and the editor are scuplting all the work by deciding on the sequence in which the pieces will appear in the book.

16:07 We've occupied two complete rooms and everybody is concentrating on their work.