The Rabbit Hole

Entering The Rabbit Hole

The launch of my new blog and my first blog post (hopefully of many) writing a series of novels I've had in the works, cooking and stewing in exercise books, notebooks and scraggly torn envelops over the past years. The first draft I wrote was titled Love Bug later changed to Dark Cloud a 48k word messy first draft I shelved, not happy where the story was going. 

                           Kane Edwards crying over the death of his mother and brother(Dark Cloud)

The Money Men (the original title) now, 1st to 100 Wins was inspiration that came from reading front page news of a young group of professional cricketers hooking up with multiple women as a bet, it was the hook I needed for my trader's story which had characters but no big plot device which the news story provided. The first draft was a 80k word puzzle mess of acts one, two and three mixed together. The novel is currently going through a second draft and honestly they say the first draft is difficult the second is tedium connecting the dots of the story together. The second draft was cutting and pasting, and cleaning up the writing to shape a story. I admit there is still gaps and is in need of another rewrite or two but there is a cohesion which is pleasant to see. 

          Writings in my four exercise books before typing out the first draft of 1st to 100 Wins(right)

My novel writing list in the back burner of my mind are, 

Novels in development (1st of importance)

• 1st to 100 wins, 
• The Tree At The Edge Of The Universe
• The Olympic Affair
• Dark Cloud

Developed to a certain point in concept designs and themes I want to pursue and finish (2nd)

• Chameleon Swing (children's book) 
• Westminster (political text adventure game with pixel art)
• Death And The Devil (comical surreal book)
• Tales of the Crown (four short stories make up a book)

Rough notes and writing on these, develop these later  (3rd)

• Blood Brothers
• Mr. Nice Guy
• The Log Factory

Rough notes, less interested in writing  (4th)

• Boathouse
• Love Story 
• Smell The Coffee
• South Pole

I'm just getting it out there, a mind dump before my brain explodes from info overload, I will finish First To 100 Wins (Second draft close to complete) The Tree At the Edge of the Universe (first draft complete) The Olympic Affair (First draft - this November) - Dark Cloud (shelved due to the complexity of AI, CIA, NSA, cybercrime - it was just heavy topics I needed to scale back)

I will add the inspiration and resources that have influenced my work. Part of the inspiration of writing fiction has been, guiltily E L James and the Fifty Shade series all five books and audio books, Grey and Darker and pushed me to write my own novels. I've listened to numerous romance audio books on YouTube (actually I might compile a list someday) and have been reading other fiction genres like Dan Brown thrillers, espionage by John le Carre and adventure stories. Other books I read through the lockdown and after, a real tear moment for me was One Day, written by David Nicholls - I bought the book in Poundland, dejected, on its own with a beaten up cover - I looked and read the back with its great reviews, shrugged and said I'll give it a read, not expecting much. I found it a big hit and a real page turner from start to finish - I was hooked and couldn't put it down reading about Dex and Em's turbulent relationship. Another great read was Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline - I loved this adventure story, a mix, and rightly so of the Matrix meets Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. Other thrillers, like YOU and Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes were also great reads that I couldn't put down, and made me watch both seasons of YOU. 

Inside The Rabbit Hole

Being my first blog post and talking about my writing online is a big leap into the void. Hopefully I won't get lost but if I do lets hope it's a good adventure with interesting characters and fascinating story plot twists - I'm surrounding by my musings, writings on the back of bank statements and torn envelops, jots on receipts, sketches and notes in my moleskin A6 sketchbook (triggers) to realise in my writing using visual aids, where a series of scenes unfold in my head the characters talk and act in their own accord with their own dreams and desires, they can be nice or harsh or damn right disgusting - fingers crossed or fingers tap tap tap the keys on the silver mac - and I'm falling, falling, deep down the rabbit hole not knowing what will happen, what I will find and where I will end up.  As a writer (I love drawing also) storytelling inspires my imagination and creativity to draw and write unique characters interwoven in plots gripping the audience and takes them on an emotional rollercoaster - we hope. 

I'm going to leave it there for my first post. I hope you don't get bored of reading this but as I said I'm just spilling out my brains on the silicon beast and see what happens with no expectations or accolades. 

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