Insight – Page 148

I’ve spent three months working on the latest short story to be posted here. It’s called, ‘Debt of Honour’. A young sailor is marooned after a mutiny, but then the ship returns to the island a year later. The Lord might well say, ‘vengeance is mine’ but our young hero has other ideas. I’m entering it for the Global Writers March competition, so once again, here’s hoping.

Whilst we’re on the subject of doing the right thing, I’ve made fair progress with Chapter 1 of my novel. The working title is, ‘A Life of Choice’ and the main character is a young man by the name of Jim Faulkner. He looks, sounds and acts remarkably like I did at the same age when I joined up. By this weekend I intend to have Chapter 1 edited and be working on Chapter 2.

In the knowledge that I’m now converting my autobiography to a fictional novel (laced with fact), I am more content to continue. I would appreciate any comments on my decisions to go down this route. I appreciate comments or criticism of any of my writing.

On poetry, I am underway with a series on the analysis of dreams. I will continue with that idea. My most difficult task in the future is to avoid spending too much time on verse because it distracts me from my ‘conventional’ writing.

That small, select group of people who have made the effort to check out my blog will no doubt have wondered why the long awaited third chapter of my autobiography has yet to be posted. Today you will have an answer.

It has nothing to do with lack of time, too much else to do or any other lame excuse. In Chapter Three I found that I had already moved from the information that I didn’t mind anybody reading to the sort of thing that would have to be left out or heavily disguised. Reluctantly and after much deliberation I am going to create a working title in the next week and convert fact to fiction. In the trade it would be referred to as faction, fiction based on fact.

The tale is effectively written, though I would be the first to say, not well written. In terms of the first two chapters I will only alter them slightly and I think quickly, then I’ll move on to a much more rapid offering with regard to the remainder. To any who actually wanted to read a factual tale I extend my apologies, but believe me… it is for the best, as they say…