Oct 18 2009
Rip and burn
This is no reflection on my manuscript by the way. It’s my new talent which I expect the rest of you worked out ages ago - taking music off a compact disc and putting it on another. In fact I am a little behind in the technology stakes, everyone else has moved on to mp3’s and iPods - downloading from the net. That’s probably beginning to date by now too…
I guess really I want to point out the virtues of at least knowing what is current, even if you are still winding up Grandma’s gramophone, or rock and rolling around your kitchen to Elvis on a sunday morning. Though in the right context, this might work.
But when you are telling the stories of twenty - or thirty - somethings, it pays to know what is what and who is who. Be up to date and give the reader a tale to believe, something they might hear in the local, whispered scandal over the WKD blue.
There are many things to remember when writing, perhaps the best thing is to enjoy what you do, or you get to the end of it and are not happy with the outcome - the solution?
Rip and burn, maybe?
