I haven ‘t given up, either the blog or writing a book. The thhought comes back to me every so often. Of course, if I don’t actually get on with it, whatever book I might think of writing will never get written. I guess you either have a book inside you, or you don’t. There’s only one way to find out.
I get mixed up between writing fiction or non-fiction. Sometimes I think it must be easier to write a work of fiction. After all, you can write pretty much what you want ( with some limits; libel, defamation, copyright and so on). Non-Fiction requires a knowledge of the topic and commitment to accuracy that I am not at all confident of carrying through.
Occasionally, I have a thought about an idea for a book. I’ve ones in the past where I’d quite like to write about ley lines, in both fact and fiction, of course I recognise that there is no basis in fact for the more fantastic aspect of ley lines. Also, if you put a ruler on a map and draw a straight line between two points of interest, there is a pretty good chance that some other objects of interest will fall on or near the line.
I had a thought today, it was as simple as I could write a novel about something happening in Gosport. Perhaps making the town the centre of some kind of conspiracy. I immediately started worrying about writing about real places, can I do this?
I’ve ordered a copy of Pauline Rowson’s first book, (2nd hand, 50p) She writes crime novels based in Portsmouth. I’m going to go through the book, and every place name she mentions I’m going to look up – is it real or fiction? In what context is it being written about?
Should be an interesting exercise.
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