I’ve just joined the Beverley writers group on Facebook, need a little help with the three books I’m attempting to write. If I had the money I’d employ a ghost writer just to help with the conversational parts, storyline, characters and start, middle and ending I have but filling it up with actual conversation between characters is proving difficult. The three stories couldn’t be further apart, “Three boxes from Ireland “ about a father deserting his son, “ The Sewermen “ a crime caper and “ Love without noise “ self explanatory. I’ve been flitting from one to another over the last year but every time I read them back I grow less confident. Weird thing as a salesman most of my life conversations earned me a decent wedge but trying to write them is ****ing difficult, being dyslexic doesn’t help….
Battle Scars by Jason Fox. A story of war and all that follows. Good read this and I liked the fella all the way through it. Jason Fox joined the Royal Marine Commandoes aged 16 and worked his way up via a gruelling selections process for the Special Forces and reached the rank of sergeant. He was heavily involved in a many covert under cover operations during several conflicts, gunfights, daring escapes, and heroic endeavours for his country, including infiltrating drug running operations in Columbia. This bloke has been there and done it. He also faced many battles at home with a disabled child and a failing marriage and after two decades of active duty he was diagnosed with complex PTSD. This is a very honest account of his troubled mind, from the battle field one day to walking down Poole High Street the next, and no-one knew what he was going through. He eventually tackled his demons and found a way into television with the SAS based reality show 'Who Dares Wins'. Bear Grylls describes this book as 'A vivid, searing account of life at war' and I agree with him.
You may have done this already, have you tried recording the dialogue on a tape recorder/phone and then writing down what you've said later? It sounds like you find talking easier than writing so if you haven't tried recording yourself it may work. Good luck with the books.
Sounds good. Not him, but I know a couple of ex forces people who work on that TV show. The take it pretty serious for a reality show!
Thank you that’s a great idea, not a great lover of the way I sound on a recording but it is worth a try. Thanks again
Slightly different slant on things on a night City are away to Ipswich. A year ago I would have been at a fixure like this but tonight I was at the East Riding Theatre in Beverley watching a John Godber Company production 'The remarkable tale of Dorothy Machill'. Written by Elizabeth Godber ( Johns daughter) and directed by Jane Thorton, Johns wife. Says it all for me when I didn't even know tonights score until gone 10,00pm and it didn't bother me. Dorothy was Hull's own star of the silver screen who ran away to London as a 15 year old in 1912 to chase her dream as a dancer and eventually finished up as the biggest star in Hollywood, quite some story and achievement for a working class Hull girl from a broken home down Newstead Street off Chanterlands Avenue. Brilliantly acted by an all female cast of three, this play is well worth seeing and should be endorsed by the HCC tourist board, but of course they will not even know it exists, a remarkable true and unbelievable tale of a Hull's girls rise to international stardom. On until October 14th. Well worth seeing.
My point it this play should be on in Hull and promoted in Hull not a provincial theatre like the east riding theatre in Beverley, good as it is.
Wind in the Wires and an Escaper's Log: A British Pilot's Classic Memoir of Aerial Combat, Captivity and Escape During the Great War:
Anyone read any John Niven? Just read Straight White Male and enjoyed it, he's got a new memoir out called O Brother to good reviews.
If they wanted to know what’s on maybe they’d look on the “what’s on” website. I’m sure the production company have a more solid understanding of what their audience numbers will be & select theatres accordingly.
