This case has everything, red herrings, jealous brothers, femme fatales, and at the heart of it all, greed.
Coming soon!
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“The Things We Do For Love” – Coming soon
Is love the metaphorical equivalent to ‘walking the plank’; a dive into uncharted waters?
For Henry the only romance he was interested in was a life at sea, and when away from it, he strived to find sanctuary from his family and perhaps life itself. It takes him to a small village by the sea, s place he never expected to find another just like him, Michelle, whom he soon discovers is as mysterious as she is beautiful.
Henry had long since given up the notion of finding romance, and Michelle couldn’t get involved for reasons she could never explain, but in the end both acknowledge that something happened the moment they first met.
Plans were made, plans were revised, and hopes were shattered.
A chance encounter causes Michelle’s past to catch up with her, and whatever hope she had of having a normal life with Henry, or anyone else, is gone. To keep him alive she has to destroy her blossoming relationship, an act that breaks her heart and shatters his.
But can love conquer all?
It takes a few words of encouragement from an unlikely source to send Henry and his friend Radly on an odyssey into the darkest corners of the red light district in a race against time to find and rescue the woman he finally realizes is the love of his life.
The cover, at the moment, looks like this:
I hate editing!
It seems that writing the novel is not the hard part. I have no trouble getting the words on paper.
It’s the editing I hate.
For instance, the latest book on the chopping block was one that I wrote nearly 40 years ago, and it shows it’s age. The location is nothing like it used to be, the working conditions were totally different, and it was in an age before computers and mobile phones.
So, editing is difficult because I want to leave it in the period it was written.
Do you know how hard it is not to get the MC to pick up a mobile phone and call, or, for that matter, send a text?
This was an age of telephone communication, where public phones were the mobile phone of the age, and telegrams were the text equivalent.
If you wanted to say something, you had to arrange a meeting, and then say it face to face.
How on earth did anyone get anything done, how did people meet, and then communicate?
Oh, yes, letters.
Ask a ten-year-old today what a letter is, and you might get an answer of ‘bills’, but only if their parents go to the letterbox and pull out those dreaded window-faced envelopes.
Was every relationship basically long-distance, even when you might, in reality, be only one or two suburbs away?
It’s being hard to cast my mind back to those old days, and try not to let the 2019 trappings creep in.
Of course, there are the other problems of writing from back then, it is a bit messy, but the core of the story doesn’t need tampering with.
It is also a reminder of how easy relationships are these days with the constant bombardment of calls and texts to keep the dream alive, and, sadly, how easy it is to break up.
Back then you would have to survive from meeting to meeting, perhaps once a week, or maybe, if you worked in a city, once a day, briefly. The idea of telephone communication would sometimes be offputting because you dreaded the possibility of talking to a parent.
Perhaps we should go back to those days because it seems to me that more people of my generation are still together because back then it required a different kind of commitment to keep it going.
OK, time to climb back in the time capsule!
Being Inspired – the book
Over the past year or so I have been selecting photographs I’ve taken on many travels, and put a story to them.
When I reached a milestone of 50 stories, I decided to make them into a book, and, in doing so, I have gone through each and revised them, making some longer and into short stories.
50 photographs, 50 stories. I’ve called it, “Inspiration, Maybe”
It will be available soon.
The first case of PI Walthenson – “A Case of Working With the Jones Brothers”
This case has everything, red herrings, jealous brothers, femme fatales, and at the heart of it all, greed.
Coming soon!
“The Things We Do For Love” – Coming soon
Is love the metaphorical equivalent to ‘walking the plank’; a dive into uncharted waters?
For Henry the only romance he was interested in was a life at sea, and when away from it, he strived to find sanctuary from his family and perhaps life itself. It takes him to a small village by the sea, s place he never expected to find another just like him, Michelle, whom he soon discovers is as mysterious as she is beautiful.
Henry had long since given up the notion of finding romance, and Michelle couldn’t get involved for reasons she could never explain, but in the end both acknowledge that something happened the moment they first met.
Plans were made, plans were revised, and hopes were shattered.
A chance encounter causes Michelle’s past to catch up with her, and whatever hope she had of having a normal life with Henry, or anyone else, is gone. To keep him alive she has to destroy her blossoming relationship, an act that breaks her heart and shatters his.
But can love conquer all?
It takes a few words of encouragement from an unlikely source to send Henry and his friend Radly on an odyssey into the darkest corners of the red light district in a race against time to find and rescue the woman he finally realizes is the love of his life.
The cover, at the moment, looks like this:
Being Inspired – the book
Over the past year or so I have been selecting photographs I’ve taken on many travels, and put a story to them.
When I reached a milestone of 50 stories, I decided to make them into a book, and, in doing so, I have gone through each and revised them, making some longer and into short stories.
50 photographs, 50 stories. I’ve called it, “Inspiration, Maybe”
It will be available soon.
The first case of PI Walthenson – “A Case of Working With the Jones Brothers”
This case has everything, red herrings, jealous brothers, femme fatales, and at the heart of it all, greed.
Coming soon!
“The Things We Do For Love” – Coming soon
Is love the metaphorical equivalent to ‘walking the plank’; a dive into uncharted waters?
For Henry the only romance he was interested in was a life at sea, and when away from it, he strived to find sanctuary from his family and perhaps life itself. It takes him to a small village by the sea, s place he never expected to find another just like him, Michelle, whom he soon discovers is as mysterious as she is beautiful.
Henry had long since given up the notion of finding romance, and Michelle couldn’t get involved for reasons she could never explain, but in the end both acknowledge that something happened the moment they first met.
Plans were made, plans were revised, and hopes were shattered.
A chance encounter causes Michelle’s past to catch up with her, and whatever hope she had of having a normal life with Henry, or anyone else, is gone. To keep him alive she has to destroy her blossoming relationship, an act that breaks her heart and shatters his.
But can love conquer all?
It takes a few words of encouragement from an unlikely source to send Henry and his friend Radly on an odyssey into the darkest corners of the red light district in a race against time to find and rescue the woman he finally realizes is the love of his life.
The cover, at the moment, looks like this:
Is it Friday … Again?
It’s amazing just how fast the weeks are slipping by.
And how I don’t seem to be getting much done. It’s like looking at a big circle that charts your times for the week.
Staring into space looking for inspiration, 85%
Getting distracted, 13%
Writing, 1%
Undecided, 1%
But I guess I am getting a lot of the preparatory work done, like setting up the next 5 Being Inspired posts – adding the photographs to be used as inspiration
See an example: http://bit.ly/2lXcRrw
Adding the next few episodes of PI Walthenson’s first case, and re-writing as the second draft along the way prior to posting them. The good news, I just posted the last episode
See an example: http://bit.ly/2PQBeWv
Then I had to create Twitter ads for the last 15 or so blog entries, which I’ve been putting off
See an example: http://bit.ly/349udmn
But what I finally got done, and is probably the most important job, was fix my author website.
See it here https://cwhmailuser.wixsite.com/authorcharles
Did I get to read? No. Unless you count a number of blog posts from bloggers I follow.
Did I get to work on any of the WIP books? Some, but writing five or six stories on the go can be a little daunting at times. It certainly makes for confusing dreams and crossovers which are practically unintentional.
So, perhaps next week will have a more positive aspect.
Tune in to find out!
Thrills, Spills, and just a dash of Romance 