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Originally posted by sasguru View PostWell I was only exagerrating when I said I'd only completed the first sentence of my putative book. I've recently written the first chapter. But being a perfectionist, I keep polishing and changing.
Maybe I'm trying too hard - I don't want to create great literature, just a formulaic commercial phenomenon that makes me filthy rich.
The plot involves a police inspector in an unnamed sleep, tropical paradise who gets involved in a drugs and prostitution network run by the Albanian mafia in concert with local crooks. And so on....But the pace would be suitably sleepy, charming, whimiscal and positive, more Mme Ramotswe than Jack Reacher.
maybe I need to research a sleepy troipical paradise - get a feel for it...
Get on with writing the book, and only go back and change earlier chapters if your plot development demands it. As for polishing, do that at the end. A decent editor can help you there.
I assume you've planned the whole storyline, especially the ending?Comment
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Originally posted by Doggy Styles View PostI assume you've planned the whole storyline, especially the ending?Hard Brexit now!
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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
sounds like one of those books that once you put it down you cant pick it up
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostWell I was only exagerrating when I said I'd only completed the first sentence of my putative book. I've recently written the first chapter. But being a perfectionist, I keep polishing and changing.
Maybe I'm trying too hard - I don't want to create great literature, just a formulaic commercial phenomenon that makes me filthy rich.
The plot involves a police inspector in an unnamed sleep, tropical paradise who gets involved in a drugs and prostitution network run by the Albanian mafia in concert with local crooks. And so on....But the pace would be suitably sleepy, charming, whimiscal and positive, more Mme Ramotswe than Jack Reacher.
maybe I need to research a sleepy troipical paradise - get a feel for it...Comment
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostI have an outline yes.Comment
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostAlways write about something you have first hand experience of.If at first you don't succeed... skydiving is not for you!Comment
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I had a piece I wrote for the late lamented Bolton Wanderers Fanzine 'Tripe 'n' Trotters' read out on Baddiel and Skinners 'Unplanned' - having a go at WBA with special reference to the Second Gulf War going on the time, Baddiel read it out live despite the team insisting on no football references being mentioned, but I saw it and heard it abd he did mention the 'clause' and read it anyway with an 'I know we're not supposed to mention football, but....'
Now, I've got all eps of Unplanned, not watched them all so I can't say, but I can't find it, so either:
1: I can't haven't found it yet and will have to keep looking
2: it was cut from DVD version.
3: It never happened.
Thinking 3: at moment....Comment
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Originally posted by TheBigD View PostHe is... although I hadn't realised he'd retired from being an Albanian prostitute.The material prosperity of a nation is not an abiding possession; the deeds of its people are.
George Frederic Watts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postman's_ParkComment
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Originally posted by speling bee View PostHe's turned amateur.Comment
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