Autumn Now!

Monday 7:15 p.m.
I've done enough diggings to stop the council sending us nippy letters about the state of the allotment. The grass edges have been trimmed. So the work's really done for this year. Tomorrow I'll change my summer jacket for the winter one and go back to my jobbie for the first time since last Monday. Tuesday, then Wednesday morning and then I'm off again. Hurrah!

I've started the re-write for sure now and have a first chapter. Since my secret agent hasn't contacted me to tell me otherwise, I assume he's still trying to sell the McCoy book. It's a year since he started trying to sell it so I guess it's not going to sell now. So I've started re-writing another one.

With the Cyclists book, and the travel book, and theBlissBook, I was trying to develope a personal writing style. Where storylines might be said to follow linear pattern like on a graph, I was trying to write something more like a layered cake. Threads interlinking, weaving and ultimately not being at all successful. So I'm going to re-write xxBomber as a crime book. I worked out the plotline in 1979. I've decided to give the main character in it now the back story of the guy from the Revenge of the Traffic Wardens, so I can use the character again if I get the first one published. Which I most probably won't. But I'll enjoy thinking about it and re-writing it.

I'm allowed to retire in a couple of years. I'd absolutely love not to have to go to work. If I could get a book published in the next two years ....dream on!

I went the five hills run tonight. Slow, but I enjoyed it. Forty minutes. Dearie me! For the last month or so I've been going out running twice a week with the toothless, old one. So this summer I've gotten back into running. Hurrah! Let's hope I get back down to eleven stone before Christmas.