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| Blackhead beach |
I
checked my spam folder on my blog yesterday, and found 5,000+ spam messages had
come in since I relaxed the ability to comment on my blog a few days ago. Whah! Not good. Took
me ages to delete them all, and I cursed Ugg Boots and Laboutin shoes all the
time I did it as they seem to be the culprits. Since I think fashion shoes are
ridiculous at the moment – and most of the time, when I think about it – I
cannot see why they’ve latched on to me. A less fashionably shod person you could not hope to find! So I’m very sorry but the filters are going back
on the comments facility.
I
wrote a chapter of my wip last week, and was very pleased with it, but on the
whole I think I shall need to trim this story down by a considerable amount.
Matho vol 3 is meandering all over the place, and do you know why? It’s because
the premise I began with is too vague. I knew what the story problem was going to be,
but not how to solve it. I assumed that would come to me as I wrote the story
out. I imagines it would filter through the brain cells as I wrote...you know the kind of thing. Well, let me ‘fess up – I’m still no wiser as to how the problem is going
to be solved. Will there ever be a finale? A climax? A resolution? Who knows –
not I.
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| beach boy |
It is
an object lesson for me – in future I must have an
outline plot before I begin writing. Without it, I found the creative bit
couldn’t flow as easily, mostly because I didn’t know where I was going, and
had no direction. So though I must force myself to think up a suitable ending,
I know I‘ll have loads of work waiting for me when I go back on a second edit.
It’s
lucky for me that my other story, Victorian Beauty, is coming along much
better. Otherwise I might just give up and decide to go on a round the world
cruise.
