Day 218

A book I started to write but have not finished

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I get ideas all the time, and sometimes they spark a flurry of writing.

A few years back, I was reading about a man who had split from his wife over creative differences. She was the one who had created a business out of an idea, turned it into a raging success and a huge money spinner, but with the fame and the fortune, she changed, but he did not.

And it became a problem so huge that he had to leave. There was a kicker in the tale, that after he left, she failed to tell him he was the father of twins.

Then, some fifteen or so years later, she dies and leaves the whole business and children to him, an eventuality he learns when a solicitor finally tracks him down in a hotel bar (of all places).

And in my usual, hey, that’s a good idea, I started writing.

It had a feel-good feeling attached to it, and I actually wrote several chapters, mostly about learning about what had happened from the time he left until the time when her father, whom she had fought tooth and nail to keep the business away from him, had all but taken it off her.

Then there were the children, spoiled, neglected, and recalcitrant. Getting sent home from boarding school for endless refractions, and getting into trouble simply because of their high-profile mother.

But, like all stories that are written without a proper plan, they stagger along, peter out, get revived and then end up in a box with a dozen or so others under a label, I’ll be back one day.

But this one niggles at me more than the others, and recently, thinking that starting it from the moment after she died, I would chart it from the first moment she got sick until the day she died, and got most of that done.

That then prompted the idea of writing a third part, that after regaining the business and getting it back on her track, sorting the children out by having them have to do a rather selective rehabilitation, he investigates the death and finds out who killed her, if it was murder.

This part, of course, would have a plan.

As soon as I get the time.