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September
According
to some folk today is the start of autumn; it doesn’t really matter does it
within our usual lives. So we haven’t had much of a summer really but that
happens at times. Someone on telly was saying it’s the wettest summer we’ve had
since the 1950s. Well, I remember doing door to door selling in 1982 and that
was summer was a lot wetter than this last one. I wasn’t the only salesman who
got caught up with in it either. Long term salesmen I knew were saying the
same. But whatever, we can do nowt about it, so we just get on with it.
ISIS has
blown up an ancient temple in Syria, and yet give permission for finding of
ancient relics and so on and expect a large cut from their sale. In Afghanistan
the Taliban blow up an old Buddhist site. A couple of years ago it came out
that the ruling family in Saudi Arabia were destroying all the places where
their prophet was born, lived and died and so on, and that family is supposed
to be Muslim. So much for their peaceful religion eh?
But you
know something, the faith of normal every day Muslims is far greater than a lot
of the Christians I’ve met. The Muslim is not ashamed of his faith, some
Christians are by the looks of it. Muslims are happy to abide by their dress
code every day (although I don’t agree with the all-over black thing they make their
women wear), many Christians won’t even wear a small fish of cross pin badge.
Does it mean I will become a Muslim? Oh no, not on your life!
Have you
noticed how many top selling writers now have a second writer listed on their
book covers? There’s quite a few of them these days; Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler,
James Paterson are just three of them. Ian Rankin has worked as
co-writer/producer of a play recently. I hope he doesn’t expand it to his books
as well. My problem with this is that you can’t tell how much the top name wrote
and how much the other name wrote. Or were they the editors? If so, why not
just as the words ‘Edited by ******). At least readers would know wouldn’t
they?
The thing
is, each writer has their own ‘voice’ and no other writer can copy that voice
in additional writing, no matter how they are as writers. The guy who tried to
write more James Bond books seems to have sank without trace. This was
something I worried about with my two Fred Copper novels that are based in
Cambridge. What I was concerned about was that some folk would say I was trying
to make a Cambridge version of Inspector Morse. I wasn’t, actually, I’m still
not. As Simon Whaley explained to me, my voice is different to Dexter’s,
therefore there is no similarity. As a fan of Morse anyway, I do know my story
lines and plot are not found in any of the Morse novels.
Arathusia is slowly
moved on with another 1,000 words done this morning. Makes a difference not
putting telly on as soon as I get up. Hopefully I managed to close a hole I
realised was in there, and not only that, but I also opened up a whole new area
to work on and expand. I shall be getting back to it later this afternoon after
I’ve finished here. The major job though is to get the hand written first draft
typed up. That will be a big a job methinks.
There’s a
new dino show on this evening with Ellie Harrison. And at 9pm Liz Bonnin is in
India looking at their wild life. Two of my favourite presenters both on telly
the same night. As it is, I can’t hope to equal the filming they will talk
about, which means my friends you will have to make do the T-Rex we saw last
week …
Today’s
funny …
A woman
in her 50s was driving with a friend. She went through a red light. The friend
didn't say anything. But then she went through another one. The friend said,
"Do you realize you just went through two red lights?"
"Oh,"
she said, "was I driving?
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