Saturday Symi Photos
We’ve not had a set of photos for a while so here are some that Neil took on a walk around the village the other day. Now then, there’s a problem with our photo presentation plug-in, inside the WordPress set-up, that means you can’t, at the moment, open these and run a slideshow. I’m not sure why this has happened by we’re looking into it. The images you see here are resized anyway so they don’t get any bigger, but you’ll have to bear with us while we try and arrange for normal service to be resumed. Meanwhile, enjoy the browse down.
News of the various writing projects I’m tinkering with: I am now half way through a rough draft of ‘Shocking the Donkeys’, the comedy/drama about Greece’s first gay civil partnership (made up) that is actually a screenplay. I am turning that script into a book, and it’s an interesting exercise. It’s not going to be a standard novel, in fact, there should be nothing standard about a novel, else it would not be novel, the adjective that gives its name to the noun. For a novel to be a novel it needs to be novel. This one is. Not in story construction – it’s a classic four act film progression, but in the way the story is told as a book. So far it’s all rather fast, with brief scenes cutting from one place to another. That would look fine on screen, but how it will read when I have re-drafted it later remains to be seen.
I intend to do the final draft of this in early June when I should be on Tilos again for a week, the same as last year. There, away from the distractions of home, I was able to bash out quite a few thousand words of ‘Straight Swap’ so this year I hope to have the second draft of ‘Donkeys’ ready to take with me so I can fine tune it and have it ready for proof readers and editor by, at the latest, the end of June.
‘Straight Swap’ may now be titled ‘Remotely’ for reasons that will become obvious if you ever read it. I am working through the edits on the final draft and hope to have that ready for the editor by the end of this month. He, the editor, meanwhile is dealing with a crisis at the Berlin Film Festival, so that may delay things slightly. The cover designer is also working in the background and I aim to have this book ready for publication in a couple of months’ time. And, while doing all of that, I have two other ideas on the go and that short story to finish, the one I started last week about ‘Throwing the Stocking.’ But that’s really an exercise and just a bit of fun.
So, there’s plenty going on up at our hose at the moment what with writing, going for photo walks, plotting and thinking up ideas for projects I’d like to write. Which all means I had better get on. Have a good weekend.
