Everybody has a bad hair day, but us girls still like to be told we look nice even if we don't feel like we do.
				Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.			
				
			The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.			 
			

 
