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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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Friday, 2 November 2012

Chapter 2 Scene 3.1

The ladies of the Kensington Gore Croquet Club travel by car to Boleskine House on the shores of Loch Ness

Chapter 2 Scene 5.1

Here is Loch Ness. Not a monster in sight - sorry.




Boleskine House on the shores of Loch Ness. It was bought by Aleister Crowley in 1899. This gave him the right to call himself Laird Of Boleskine, which I imagine he liked enormously. In the 1970s the house was bought by Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. Another family live there now who ask to be left alone by occultists and other nuisance visitors. Crowley is rumoured by some to have left a half raised spirit behind him.

We're used to seeing pictures of Crowley when he was relatively old. But, at the time of my story he was in his twenties still. (There are any number of pics of him I could use in this blog.  I think he liked the camera.









The Boleskine cemetery doesn't look quite as gothick as in my story. In fact I more had my mind on my local cemetery at Shacklegate Lane. Nevertheless there is reputed to be a secret tunnel from the graveyard to the House. It has never be found though. (To my knowledge, anyway)




When I I put into my story the spirit of a young girl what I had in mind was a sequence in the 1970s computer game 'The Colonel's Bequest' by the legendary Sierra Games. This pic though makes a good illustration.







For the madwoman I had in mind an actress I saw in Sydney playing a convicted murderess in 'The Art of Success'. Her only previous acting experience had been as Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh.  She was BRILLIANT!

Alas the Sydney production of this play was immediately after September 11, 2001, As a result the audience were outnumbered by the cast.  Anyway she is mt ide of what my madwoman looks like.  I couldn't find a pic of her so make do with these ones.














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