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So here it is.. a blog. Repository of some of my present musings and interests. Sometimes things pop into my head that should probably stay there - it is possible I shall share at least some of them here. (Naturally I shall filter out the ones about my sordid obsession with the culinary dark arts, one has to protect the innocent!) Please feel free not to take this too seriously, much of it could wind up being snippets of things that amuse me. Yesterday I came up with this: Few politicians can be considered first class, but not a few are number twos. What can I do with it? Nothing springs to mind, except perhaps blog it. Perhaps in some other life I'm a failed stand-up comedian. I have the beginnings of an idea to introduce another player into the Mr Moonlight story, a nice visual has occurred to me, and a summoning gone wrong seems appropriate. When I finish up here I shall literally put pen to paper. I find writing at least initially longhand helps my ideas flow. When I type up what I've written, I give it a first revision at the same time, and as a bare minimum check my spellings and grammar . I do want to keep tabs on my current reading here. I usually have several books on the go at the same time. Currently I am working through 'Pyramids' by Terry Pratchett. I reread Pratchett's books over and over - usually at work where they provide much needed amusement whilst I eat breakfast. 'The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle', by Stuart Turton was loaned to me by a friend who shares a love of murder mysteries, (especially Agatha Christie's works). It is a new take on the genre and very very clever. The protagonist occupies different bodies - a selection of the guests at the house where Evelyn is murdered. Each day he spends in a different guest, and he has been tasked with discovering the murderer - or maybe saving Evelyn from actually being murdered, it is hard to tell. The book twists and turns and is quite intriguing. 'New Science - Principles of the new science concerning the common nature of nations' is an English translation by David Marsh of 'La Scienza Nuova' by Giambattista Vico, published in 1725. Not far into this yet, I had to find a copy of the frontispiece online, as it wasn't included in the Kindle edition. The first part of the book explains the idea - and uses a detailed description of the frontispiece to convey this. So being without it would have made things somewhat harder. 'The Complete Works of Michael De Montaigne' is again a translation, this time by Donald M. Frame. Montaigne's Essays are famous, I kept reading about them, so treated myself to a nice hardbound copy to dip into - usually just before bedtime. So there we have it - a blog entry - enjoy! (whispers almost inaudibly 'Bon Appétit). |
| Today's October prep assignment was about identifying my market, and my 'brand'. I'm of the opinion that my novel will never be published. My 'brand' includes my complete disdain for social media, I have no presence on any platform, nor do I wish to have one. As this nowadays is seen as an essential to get published, I accept that as a consequence anything I write is for my own satisfaction. Neither do I have a large family, and my circle of friends is basically at zero, by choice. I'm sure I sound very unpleasant, but I'm very introvert. I expend all the energies I have for interacting with other people on dealing with customers in the shop I run. Outside of this I have minimal interaction with anyone other than my immediate family. Oh I say 'hello' to the neighbours, and can be perfectly pleasant to people I encounter when shopping, but basically I am not a social creature. So if I self published, I would have no one to sell to, and no I'm not going to say "would you like a copy of my novel with your breakfast?" |
| I've been sort of blogging my progress in the October Preparation for NaNoWriMo in the Messages of the challenge page, but I don't think a day by day progress is required or necessarily appreciated, so I have decided to stop. Today's challenge was theme, and I stared at a list of universal themes for quite a while working out that non of them actually are the theme. Once I'd done that I identified the theme I am following, which is 'Transcendence', and finished off the challenge. The preparation has definitely been useful so far, 'Theme' being the bit I'd rate least useful though. There are several good writers working on this preparation, and reading their short stories about their protagonists was fun. The story hasn't quite become all consuming, as I have found time to enter a couple of poetry competitions. |
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). I mostly reject that. I'm eating rice with an egg this morning but Pannya just brought me chocolate milk from 7/11 (bless him; I really don't need it).
