Bringing a darling back from the dead
It's a well-known writing practice, killing of your darlings.
I thought I had killed one this week and was feeling good about it until I realised the helicopter scene I had cut was needed to explain something later on.
After a lot of brain searching I came up with the solution - bring the helicopter in earlier and make it a much bigger part of the story. In fact this solved another problem I was having with the timing, and it gave me a means of reinforcing two streams of the story.
Welcome back darling.
I live in Mandurah, Western Australia, where, when I am not dabbling in painting, playing my guitar and trying to grow old gracefully, I am trying to write a screen play.
Where to buy my books
Hard copies and E-books can be purchased on Amazon, Booktopia, Kobo and all the usual on-line book retailers. Book stores can obtain them through Ingram Spark, who publish them for me.
If you would like a signed copy, send me a message on the contact page of this website. The price of $30 includes postage in Australia. If you are outside Australia, email me and I will work out the postage.
The Man Who Didn't Like People
Joe Wetherley left his wife and children twenty years ago and has been living on his own in the bush. Now he must seek out his family again and make decisions about the legacy he will be leaving them.
A New Era For Manny Youngman
Manny Youngman has unconventional ideas on feminism and the effects it has on our society but he has not counted on a fifteen-year-old daughter he didn't know he had.
A life in short stories
A collection of some of the many short stories I have written over the past 60 years, from some that were published in "girlie" magazines in the 1960s to the most recent entered in competitions and published in anthologies.
A unique view of a writer's life as I adapted to market needs and my own interests.
