KEEPING ON KEEPING ON
Friend and fellow writer Steve Castley has written on his blog about a writers' festival he went to and how it inspired him to take new directions in his writing.
For me, the new direction is writing screen plays. Not that I expect to ever see one made into a film but because it is requires different skills and there is a lot for me to learn.
I am using a programme called Final Draft to give me the basic format although I find a lot of its utilities too complicated for what I need and use Word for most of my outline and character development ideas.
My first screen play, Bottleneck, was entered in a competition but was unsuccessful. My second, Stranded, is going through a process of rewriting after I found problems with the timeline and character development in the first draft.
The main thing is I am still writing, still learning and still enjoying it, more than sixty years after I wrote my first attempt at a short story.
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 currently writing a screen play.
Where to buy my books
Hard copies and E-books can be purchased on Amazon, 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.
