Well, there you go; I didn't start the book last weekend or the weekend before. I mean, I did, in my mind, but not inside the computer where it actually counts. Today, I finally got around to writing out the outline of it, to write out the content of each chapter as a guide to use when I start the book in genuine. I'm not as quick to start this one as I was to start some others.
I started "Stratford" on a whim because I was so upset about the whole issue behind it. I was forced to pay a seventeen-year-old false warrant after the courts in that area decided to pull out old files and add fees to the ones they felt needed to be paid. It was a forgiven debt, but that didn't stop them from steamrolling over me and holding a warrant over me to get their $738! (I paid it, and then I got even)
When I wrote "Of Kilted Pleasure," it was because I had been terminated from my employment and knew I couldn't get hired for at least a month, as it was at the end of the year, and people tend to wait until February to hire people for some reason. Check it out. December is the worst month for hiring, but January follows it quite closely. So, since I knew I would be home alone for at least 4-6 weeks, I wrote a book.
This time, because I'm both gainfully employed and I have just written another book, I wasn't all that excited to get back into it. It's a grind that I place on myself, which isn't fair to me, but it's only me who suffers by my own hands. I really should have a conversation with myself about such matters. I would like to know if it will help. The main way to stop me from being so egregious is simply going on strike and refusing to get started. That's been my go-to method of rebellion.
Well, today, I decided to write out the outline. I did so in about an hour, having thought about what it was I wanted to do in the book - I had a basic idea. Then, for personal reasons, I decided to change the city where the book takes place as well as the name of the book. The book was going to be named "Grange," and it was going to take place in the real cemetery in Edinburgh. I changed that. I first decided I didn't need that association becoming angry at me if I used their name, and then I decided that the City of Stirling needed a little love as well, so I changed the location of the book to Stirling.
Stirling and Edinburgh have so many things in common, but they have so many things setting them apart. I plan to discuss those in the book as well. I hope to; I will do it. I am the one writing the book -- I can control that much. I have also decided that there should be a lot of controversial topics in the book - both discussed and just played out. People will simply have to like or not like them; that's not up to me. I write, and it's fair to say that whatever it is that I choose to write about is and/or are topics and subject matters that actually take place in the real world.
Again, it's my book. I'm not going to ask permission to write it. I'm not even going to pretend to be polite about it. It's a good book, and it will be received well. I don't write to sell; I don't write to please. I write to write. I have these stories floating around in my head - they must come out - so they do eventually. I have a few more up there, too, so after this one, two more detective novels will probably come. I can't wait to get to them, so this book won't take me too long; I know that much, too. Once I get started -- it's just the starting in this case that took a little longer than most.
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