The Gentlemen Rankers: August 2013

Welcome

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).

If you have found your way here by accident, comments are welcome - especially the kind ones.

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

Tuesday, 13 August 2013

I know, I know

Yes, alright, I know. BUT I'm taking the bit of Chapter 8 where I ran out of steam(punk), came off the rails - whatever. I'm going to think it all through and unravel my plot (or maybe, knowing me, ravel it a bit more. One way or another I intend to sort it out. I've thought a bit and some bits of the story so far are just too much fun to waste.

ps unfortunetly I now realise that there isn't time to put the bits I've printed onto dropbox so it's back to pen and paper (I didn't get a keyboard for my phone either). Still maybe that's not such a bad thing.

Monday, 5 August 2013

Okay, I confess

Okay, I confess this has become a little bogged down. Blogged down perhaps. I haven't exactly stopped but I got my plot into a tangle I lacked the energy to work through. To put things off I did a course at the Richmond Adult Community College - how to write a novel in a month. It was great fun and I did get 40 thousand words written - 50 was the target. I did think I finished up with a draft that could have worked and was going to pursue that. Guess what? Got bogged down. I would never have dreamed that retirement could be time consuming.

The course leader at RACC was Jane Birley-Bain (I think). However you spell her she was a delight.

Now I am getting urgent messages from my sub-conscious telling me to restart Gentlemen Rankers. No really! That is what comes of using Carl Jung as a character. In any case there are just too many bits in it so far that I love for me to ditch the whole thing.

AND at the same time I have an urge to develop a game for future thinking. I am chatting about that on LinkedIn, if I get response from people I'll start a blog for that. I'll be a bit careful though not to steal traffic from the groups on LinkedIn. I think moderators can be a bit iffy about that sort of thing.

So, There. I've finally got restarted.