As always there’s a beginning

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NANOWRIMO has once again stuck up on me, and April is just around the corner.

While it is not the writing month, I always like to look at a story I’ve been puddling with over the last year and see if, in the month allocated, I can flesh out the story from the myriad of ideas and snippets that accumulate.

These accumulations live in folders some thicker than others, and yes, quite a lot of the material resides on paper, actual paper.

There’s about five or six on the pending box, so I pull out the top one.

Yes, that will do.

It’s a story that I started in the middle, though at the time when the ideas were flowing, it was the start.  The fact I did some shuffling meant that I got a few new ideas and started writing Blackstone’s which in turn became the basis for what would become the start of the story.

So, that being the case, the story runs  ..

In the beginning the backstop to the main character, her life, her work, her friends and acquaintances, her enemies, and the mounting problems that make her life and work difficult.

The second part, her ex-husband of many years ago, got a message from the grave and went in to sort out the mess that was created by her sudden and until death.

Then there’s the investigation, and the detective involved, created with the intention as all authors must have in the back of their minds, to star in another story later in.

As you can see, it’s all part of a long and complicated process in my sometimes bitter and twisted mind.

It’s time to get on with it.