Yesterday
I spent some of yesterday morning working on an idea for a ‘Clearwater Companion.’ This is an idea to one day produce an accompaniment to the series The Clearwater Mysteries which I am writing under my pen name. It’s come about because I have started blogging more regularly on my other blog which, until now, has been a hit and miss affair. With things being what they are, I need to try and raise more sales, and a regular blog is one way to go. So, I took out all my research books and photographed them along with some of my notebooks. I also made up a list of ideas for what might go in such a book, things like character backstories with photos where I can find them, notes on the locations as some of them are real, and some of them are not. I could also add information about the real characters who appear in the books, Tennyson and Henry Irving, for example, and note the times I have made up names and places, but based them on the originals. Places such as ‘Greychurch’ where the Ripper murders happen in book one. That’s obviously Whitechapel, and the murder locations are also changed in my novel world, but sometimes subtly which might be of interest to Ripper’ fans’. Mitre Square, for example, becomes Bishop’s Square in my book, although some places, like The Ten Bells, keep their original name. Meanwhile…
That was what I was doing yesterday early morning before wandering into Yialos to chase up a bit of accountancy business and take a walk. I’ve been lazy with walks of late, though Neil has been taking long wanders and swims in the morning and I am with him in spirit. There are a few more boats in the harbour, some large ones, some smaller, white sailing boats, and we are still receiving regular day trip boats too. I see them come and go as I watch from my balcony like the Lady of Shallot in her tower – oh, that’s a Tennyson reference, so you can see where my head is at the moment.
