I have a review written up for
the IMHO blog, The Levellers Greatest Hits album, and a couple of EP releases from
Nottingham bands to write sometime this week. It occurred to me to maybe turn
the IMHO blog over to all reviews in future;
gigs (including the unedited versions of write-ups I do for the paper), books,
films (even though I tend to watch films a while after their release as I hate
going to the cinema), theatre and television. As long as I label everything
correctly then each subject would be easy enough to find. The only problem
would be that sometimes I fill a daily entry by writing about a gig so it would
stretch me to have to find something else to write about instead. Maybe I should
abandon the daily blog altogether and start a separate one for each subject I regularly
write about, so I’d still be writing daily but in different places. I can’t see
that working, although I like the idea of putting everything that looks like a
review in one place.
The basic point is that I love
writing which is why I always carry a pad and pen around. I have recently read
another book about Charles Dickens and kind of like the way he used to write in
installments. What we now know as a book was originally published in magazines
on a regular basis, although whether he wrote the whole book first or not I am
unclear about. We live in a far more advanced world than Dickens did (although I
would much rather be living my life in Victorian times) and rather than
magazines we now have the Kindle, which enables people to self publish. If Charles
Dickens was around today he would most likely be using the medium of e-books to
provide his audience with the next part of his book.
This is something I like the
idea of doing but I am not very good at writing fiction, Bowie Day
(released January 8th 2015) being my first attempt, so would
struggle to find a beginning and an end, and of course a middle. All of my
writing is based on truth (even my comedy stuff is based on real life events or
situations) so what to write about?
Autobiography/biography is my
favourite type of book to read and I consume these at an alarming rate of
greedy reading. I am of course too young to write mine, but having touched on a
few areas of my childhood in the blog I feel that I might have the makings of a
reasonably entertaining volume of memoir to drip feed onto my Kindle shop. There
is no way I could manage it this year and next year is set to be busy so I don’t
want to announce it and then forget about it. Perhaps every two months would be
a realistic target assuming I could find the time to sit and write it without
interruption. Next year might be optimistic but I might put the idea ‘in the
drawer’ until all of my outstanding projects are dealt with. That way the final
chapter could be about my new life as a Punch and Judy man.
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