Travelling On

smallholdingsister

That thing about the commute, one of the scariest things for me is not knowing if the kids are OK, or being able to get to them.

Karmacat

smallholdingsister wrote: »

That thing about the commute, one of the scariest things for me is not knowing if the kids are OK, or being able to get to them.

That's a good point - I can't do that for my protagonist right now, though, as I haven't had kids myself. I've lived with families with toddlers and babies, as well as having been an au pair, so I can do that age "good enough". There's a primary school in the village in real life, so some secondary characters will have young children - there'll be more drama from secondary characters who have teenage children, as they'll be going outside the village to their schools and colleges. I have a little proxy war outlined for the local shopping mall town, and I could definitely see my teenagers getting caught up in that.

I definitely take notes from people like ferfal too. I'm really beating up on these people, aren't I :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

michelle09

Your novel sounds good, post apocalyptic books are a guilty pleasure of mine. I read stacks of them, well written or not.

Don't the poor commuters suffer enough?

gallygirl

Karmacat wrote: »

That's a good point - I can't do that for my protagonist right now, though, as I haven't had kids myself. I've lived with families with toddlers and babies, as well as having been an au pair, so I can do that age "good enough". There's a primary school in the village in real life, so some secondary characters will have young children - there'll be more drama from secondary characters who have teenage children, as they'll be going outside the village to their schools and colleges. I have a little proxy war outlined for the local shopping mall town, and I could definitely see my teenagers getting caught up in that.

I definitely take notes from people like ferfal too. I'm really beating up on these people, aren't I :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Will it have a happy ending :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

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Karmacat wrote: »

....... I'd find it difficult, though, to write about the murder of someone I knew. The brother of a great-great-grandmother of mine died on the Titanic - I thought I was fine with it, but I happened to catch the Leonardo DiCaprio / Kate Winslet film, and I couldn't watch it, I couldn't bear it



I hope you don't have a disorder :kisses3: but what you do need to have (what *I* need to have) is time, over and over again, to write, to re-order and edit, write again, learn how to get the thing onto kindle. You can do it, but whether you have time to do it (as I did once, but don't know if I have again) - only you can tell.

Want to make a diary date for publication? I will if you will, seriously.

The person who was murdered was the older sister of a very close school friend. I'd met her a few times and knew lots about her from my friend. It was years later that she died, I was almost 40 then and had lost touch with my old school friend. I became aware of the murder from my mother who read about it in the Daily Mail and told me of it. The murderer (who I'd also met several times when he lived a few doors away from my Granny before he married:eek:) and the motive were so unlikely that I felt sure there was mileage in it for a cracking psychological thriller. That's when I started trying to track down all the press accounts of the event and subsequent trial. As I mentioned before, this book idea has been buzzing around in my head for ages, decades really:o

As for the disorder 'thing', it's not just time that is holding me back, it's a real inability to start the final, main part something I've spent an inordinate amount of time preparing for. Over-preparing actually:o. I was the same at University when an essay or assignment had to be done. I had researched at every opportunity and had amassed piles books with relevant (or not) bits marked plus reams of my own notes. I say 'or not' because barely a tiny fraction of the research was ever truly useful for the finished piece:eek:. It had to be the last few hours before the deadline before I could actually sit down and start to get the darned thing written but, amazingly, actually writing it was the easy bit :rotfl:. Apart from a quick spell-check (no word-processors in those days:() and maybe a very small amount of reordering a few sentences here and there it was pretty much ready to go once I'd written it out more legibly. I don't know why I got myself into a tizzy about it as I invariably received very good marks for any written work I had to submit. That's why I think I must have some sort of variant of an obsessive compulsive type disorder:o


I won't be taking you up on your publication date challenge, KC. Lovely idea but I don't want to commit, however loosely, to something as definite as that. I know it would be like my old deadline problem and it might help having a definite end date but getting a whole book finished is very different to an essay or even a dissertation. I know you'll finish yours though, you have so much get-up-and-go when it comes to the important stuff:A. An enviable quality indeed:beer:

Karmacat

michelle09 wrote: »

Your novel sounds good, post apocalyptic books are a guilty pleasure of mine. I read stacks of them, well written or not.

Don't the poor commuters suffer enough?

They do! But thats why no one will be surprised if they suffer more, apart from no one having done it much

gallygirl wrote: »

Will it have a happy ending :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Ooh, I've been thinking about this, actually :rotfl:Slow collapse wouldn't do it. It'd have to be "slow collapse plus POW" :rotfl: John Wyndham always finished with a vague sense of optimism, in spite of 99% of people being dead Maybe it will end with the local astronomy society spotting a meteor heading towards the earth :cool: Lets face it, the sequels would be different!

Karmacat

carbootcrazy wrote: »

The person who was murdered was the older sister of a very close school friend. I'd met her a few times and knew lots about her from my friend. It was years later that she died, I was almost 40 then and had lost touch with my old school friend. I became aware of the murder from my mother who read about it in the Daily Mail and told me of it. The murderer (who I'd also met several times when he lived a few doors away from my Granny before he married:eek:) and the motive were so unlikely that I felt sure there was mileage in it for a cracking psychological thriller. That's when I started trying to track down all the press accounts of the event and subsequent trial. As I mentioned before, this book idea has been buzzing around in my head for ages, decades really:o

Oh my, CBC ... it sounds really intense. I don't think I could write on that intense, personal level.

As for the disorder 'thing', it's not just time that is holding me back, it's a real inability to start the final, main part something I've spent an inordinate amount of time preparing for. Over-preparing actually:o. I was the same at University when an essay or assignment had to be done. I had researched at every opportunity and had amassed piles books with relevant (or not) bits marked plus reams of my own notes. I say 'or not' because barely a tiny fraction of the research was ever truly useful for the finished piece:eek:. It had to be the last few hours before the deadline before I could actually sit down and start to get the darned thing written but, amazingly, actually writing it was the easy bit :rotfl:. Apart from a quick spell-check (no word-processors in those days:() and maybe a very small amount of reordering a few sentences here and there it was pretty much ready to go once I'd written it out more legibly. I don't know why I got myself into a tizzy about it as I invariably received very good marks for any written work I had to submit. That's why I think I must have some sort of variant of an obsessive compulsive type disorder:o

I recognise that from my college days, I really do. I have one finger joint permanently swollen from the amount of note-writing I did back then - all completely unnecessary, but I didn't know how else to do it. I'm not obsession-free myself, I must say

I won't be taking you up on your publication date challenge, KC. Lovely idea but I don't want to commit, however loosely, to something as definite as that. I know it would be like my old deadline problem and it might help having a definite end date but getting a whole book finished is very different to an essay or even a dissertation. I know you'll finish yours though, you have so much get-up-and-go when it comes to the important stuff:A. An enviable quality indeed:beer:

Thank you! It doesn't feel like that, though sometimes I *do* push through whatever's happening to get to my goal, I know I do.

Right, another 5 mins on here (and thank you all for your feedback!) then I'm off into the garden

Hope everyone has a lovely day.

rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

...but the effects on my commuter will be ... grim

:eek::eek::eek:

...is all I'm saying!

Karmacat

I know, I'm very mean like that

Just spent an hour in the garden finishing off the weeding for the areas that were submerged by the pile of hedging carp ... surrounded it now with big chunky planks of wood - either short scaffolding planks, or slats from a double bed. It makes two lovely size areas where nice big plants can grow, and I can get around them either side, to trim and harvest. It looks great, if a little unconventional ...

Karmacat

Oh, and I thought SB were being good crediting for me for the survey they disqualified me for this morning - but they weren't, it was the Wilko's order I made a while ago. But 15 minutes discussing Star Wars games and digital media - I don't appreciate being disqualified at that level of detail. Not going to bother appealing though, I didn't take all the necessary screen shots. Consoling myself with the Wilko order points - about 85% of the way to £10 on Amazon ...