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.

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.

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.