The Novel

 

The Novel

Some of you may recall that I am writing a novel, a fictional of version of the events between ourselves (my wife and I) and Jessica, better know as London Andrews. Just so you know, it is taking a lot longer then anticipated. I expected to have re-draft and rewrite, but….

Basically, this story is a friendship and romance between three people and then a forth intrudes and destabilises everything.

My original plan had been to write the story from the point of view of the husband and wife, with their personal inner worlds of thoughts and feeling. The character of model and later that of the model’s ‘friend’, the ‘catfishing’ online account also run by the model, are blanks to the couple. Just their online messages leaving the couple to try and work things out, read between the lines. What does she mean ? Projecting their own thoughts etc into the gaps and thus revealing more about themselves.

It did not work. The story needed the models ‘interiority’, her inner world as well. So, I went back through the work and added more about the model, her story and what she was thinking and feeling etc. This did not go as well as I had expected, it was ‘clunky’ , you could see the join, as it were…..

So, I had to rewriting the novel again.

I had almost finished this when I had an idea that changes the dynamic in the story and adds an interesting twist.

It was so good an idea that I have to use it even though it means completely rewriting the whole novel from scratch, yet again. And this is where I am now.

As I cannot compose on a keyboard I’m back to square one again, writing the story the old fashioned pen and paper way. And then type it up. This is where I am now, scribbling away. I think I will have finished manually writing the story out by the end of August or early September. I’m away on holiday then, so plenty free time for this. Then all I have to do is type it up. Given the experience I now have with writing and typing this from the past year, I’m going to allow myself until the new year to complete this.

Wish me luck.

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