Friday morning – awoke to some clouds about and a cooler air temperature, but the clouds started to disperse through the morning and now, at around 11.00 the view from the office is quite acceptable.
Not that I have much planned for the weekend, only: taking as much out of the office as I can, watching while Neil redecorates it for me, and then putting it all back in again. That’s Saturday. Sunday I plan to cook a lunch for a couple of friends who are coming over, and then take the rest of the day off. And before I know it, it will be Monday and back to the last few chapters of ‘Straight Swap,’ the new comedy novel, first draft, which is reaching its climax. I hope to get the draft finished in the next couple of weeks so I can put it to one side and do something else for a while. I’ll then come back to it and see where we are at.
I can’t remember exactly when the idea for ‘Straight Swap’ first occurred to me but I can remember where. I was crossing the sitting room in the old house on my way to get ready for work at the bar (in 2013) and Neil was watching a film about a boy and a girl who magically swapped bodies. It’s an old concept. I had one of those, “what if it was a gay/straight swap, how would that pan out?” moments. I started it as a film script idea, which is always a way of honing in on the actual story, but I gave up on that idea as there are a million film scripts out there doing nothing, and as I am not in a position to actually pitch and sell, and as I didn’t want to own the million-and-oneth unread film script, I decided on a novel. Someone else can adapt it after they send me the contract and option fee.
But that’s for later down the line (I wish!) – Oh that’s another title that would make a good film, ‘You Wish!’ available from Amazon, but only read it if you like kind of student, bawdy and a little bit raunchy, silly comedy set in Brighton. Meanwhile, another 20,000 words should see me at the end of ‘Straight Swap’ draft one. And in the meantime, have you heard of the new Amazon Kindle Paperwhite? Here’s in an unbridled advertisement for it which you might like to investigate. Follow the link – buy the product and you will be contributing 0.50p towards the Greek economy, which will probably make you the majority shareholder. Have a good weekend!
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