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This blog is just to record my experience of writing a story. That is something I have wanted to do all my life. I guess it is now or never.

I am just doing it for fun. I do not really intend to publish it. Mind you, I shall give that a try if I ever get it finished :).

The blog is only intended for me to keep a diary of my thoughts and for some of my close friends, especially those at the Richmond Writers' Circle (bless them for their patience).

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If you are, like me, attempting to write your first novel, please share the ups and downs.

Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Gentlemen rankers - Influences - 2


Here are two famous pairs of imperial sergeants.  Michael Caine and Sean Connery in The Man Who Would be King and Sean Bean and Daragh O'Malley in Sharpe. More British of course than are the three musketeers and undoubted influences but not really what I have in mind for my characters. None of them are close to Ambrose Delahay.  There may be bits of Sharpe and Caines's Peachy Carnehan in Reuben Chatham, perhaps. None of them have the bleak view of the world that a gentleman ranker would have.
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