Not so much a resolution...

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"Paul Bines" wrote:
> Just wanting to share this - I have decided, after much dithering over
> ideas
> and absolutely no actual knuckling down to keyboard, that this is the
> year I
> actually write down the story I've had lurking in the back of my mind
> for
> the last couple of years. I don't suppose I'll do much with it if I
> actually finish it - it's more an exercise in seeing if I can actually
>
> commit to finishing something longer than a few thousand words this
> time!
>
> I used to write (for my own amusement) short stories - usually
> affectionate
> pastiches of E.F.Benson's Lucia novels, and I have had one or two
> people say
> they were not that bad, but they were similarly Lucia obsessed
> friends.
> This time I'm going to have a go at writing something NOT influenced
> by Fred
> Benson in any way - there may even be swearing (if I can steel myself
> to
> doing it). It's more of an increasingly bleak comedy (a satire on
> SF/media
> fandom) - certainly a lot darker than could be imagined even in modern
> day
> Tilling or Riseholme.
>
> *IF* I ever actually get down to filling out the rough outline I have
> just
> typed (and that is something of an achievement - usually I crash
> straight
> into writing a couple of paragraphs and lose all interest!) into
> something
> vaguely readable, I may ask if anyone would be interested in casting
> an eye
> over it - I trust fellow Abthiters taste and judgement after all these
>
> years. And besides, if no-one likes it, the Woodlice can have a feed!
>
> Apologies for dropping this here but I wanted to share and this seemed
> as
> good a place as any to announce what will probably turn out to be
> another
> unfulfilled dream...
> Au Res.,
> Paul
Go for it! Good luck.
I've critted for a few writers in the past so I'd be interested.


--
Tilda
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> (Have you done your two thousand words today?)
Not yet - I'm not quite ready to do the "heavy lifting" of writing the thing
out (and besides, trying that method before has always led to me abandoning
the thing through lack of enthusiasm!)
No, I've hit upon the idea of writing an outline and adding to it as and
when I come up with a useful idea. Hopefully, in time, I'll have a
reasonably lengthy 'outline' that to which I can add the linking bits.
Actually, this was partially inspired by some sage writing advice I received
from someone here in the Village a long time ago - I've tweaked it a little
bit!
So far it's mostly writing down anecdotes I can use - the story is told from
a first person perspective and very much relies on anecdotes and
reminiscences. I had a 'lightbulb' moment when trying to work out how to
introduce the narrator; it came out of listening to a Mark Lawson interview
with Alan Bennett - how do you explain to the reader/viewer things that it
can be reasonably expected that the characters already know. In my case,
how do you let the reader know the name of the narrator when the narrator
already knows it and is narrating in his head (i.e. is not actually talking
to anyone else and so doesn't need to introduce himself by name) This
morning, it hit me, and the thing that hit fits perfectly with the overall
idea of the story, plus I can probably squeeze in a Pet Shop Boys reference
too! (I LIKE Pet Shop Boys...)

In my head, I do have the opening paragraph already written, and I have a
slightly punny name for the narrator. And I have a title. I've had the
title for a good few years.

That's enough of the sausage making for now...
Au Res.,
Paul
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Thanks all for good wishes and support! It's particularly helpful!
As is the fact that, now I've told you all about the idea, I have to follow
through on it...
Au Res.,
Paul
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