I'm calling the new story Jaspar

... until I can think of something better. I was going to post my diagram plan here but it clearly doesn't do pdf files. Oh well.

Well, not quite

Still in La France Profunde. Still learning how my galaxy note works. But... I have been working on the plot for for Jaspar. Actually I have been discovering the importance of woking out plot and characters in some detail in advance if the writing is to go fast.

Novel in a month characters

Reading words of wisdom that writing fast is partially dependant on having characters sorted I decided to adopt the Enneagram types as a starting point

BACK!!

Well, I have to confess, I don't deal too well with breaks to my routine.  I wish I did but I don't.  I haven't posted here since my mother had a fall and I went to Oz. I wasn't long back in London when here we are in armagnac. I going to have to get better at this.

In the meantime, I booked myself into writing course at the RACC. It is how to write a novel in a month.  (Don't laugh! )
Basically,  I'm committed to about 50 thousand words in 4 weeks. If I get time to post about it at all I'll do it here. My point being that this blog about the Gentlemen Rankers is going to be taken over by my new (to be done in 4 weeks) story.

These things are sent to try

Today I have a head cold and am feeling sorry for myself. Being over 65 and blessed with the NHS I have been inoculated against flu and pneumonia but I do have a head cold. You'd think I would have spent the day in bed writing, wouldn't you? - or at least researching. I haven't.

Which character should we love?

That was the question Feola asked at the Richmond Writer's Circle last night. It isn't the first time she's asked it either. Gerry said much the same a week ago. He wondered why I was 60,000 words into a story and still wasn't sure who my protagonist was. They have a point. My plan so far has been to get through the first draft - which in plot terms is mainly coming from my subconscious and then sort everything out with the re-writes as I've described before. This problem though, if it turns out to be a problem may take more to fix. So far I have been doing what I think of as ensemble writing. But having the gentlemen rankers and the Kensington Gore Croquet Club in the same story does make it a bit crowded, it is true. And is also true that agents and publishers do want to see a story with a clear protagonist. My plan is still to plunge on to the end though. That might be a mistake but if it is it will have to be one I learn from.

Feola gain read for me last night - brilliantly again. We had an influx of new people - in the case of the RWC three is an influx trust me. For the most part this is good, of course. When there are more than nine people reading though it is hard to do justice to everyone, Less than nine people on the other hand doesn't meet the rent. Writer's Circles are on a bit of a knife edge from that point of view. I'm glad Susan was back to relieve me of the moderators baton.

The Aether Guild of Writers on Steampunk Empire

This is the best place I've found to post for my type of writing

Here http:Aether Guild of Writers

I think I'll repost things from here to there