The Dawn is Fast Approaching

Full time employment will end in a few weeks. I started work aged 17 in 1971. There have been many changes along the way, but now is the time to go I just had to convince myself. I will concentrate on my writing and the difficult task of getting an agent and from there a publisher. I have learnt I need to “trim the fat” from my writing and am exceedingly grateful to the people who have pointed me in the right direction, but who have also told me I can write. I have taken my novel “48 Moons” back to the drawing board and started to cut it without mercy. So far I have cut around fifty percent. Apparently every writer needs a large “bin” and to recite the mantra “Cut, cut and cut again” Like a witch from Macbeth with a highlight text and delete button next to the cauldron. If such action works for winners of the Booker Prize and comes as advice from publishers and literary reviewers, as a mere novice then I listen and I cut. At least I get to reshape the novel as I originally intended when I had the idea three years ago. All other writing which, my own admission suffers from the same surfeit of words has been put on hold while I resolve the problem.

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Official photograph was taken by Stuart Franklin, former President of Magnum Photos, and world renown for his photograph of the “Tank Man in Tianamen Square”, which has been listed in the top forty of the most powerful photographs ever taken. He is a friend and fellow Leonard Cohen fan. His work can be seen at www.stuartfranklin.com