Been a while since I presented any of my stories for your consideration. Here's one I finished off today, inspired by a dream I had. I'm very pleased with it, do let me know what you all make of it. link
When I first accidentally posted with that account (I made it as a test to see if I could get it to work when the board was down) the other day I briefly considered using it full-time and thus staging an incognito comeback, but thought you'd probably work out who it was eventually.
By the way Banquo, how are you enjoying the Brett Holmeses on BBC-2? I'm enjoying them greatly myself having never seen them before. "The Copper Beeches" on Saturday was a bit of a weird one though.
deleted user 13.01.2004 20:33
Paul, that was magnificent. I am now a fan of yours. Truly.
deleted user 13.01.2004 21:41
Ooh-hoo, Peter and Paul are the same person - you tricksy, thing, Paul. ;^)
I will read the short story the first chance I get! :^)
Very good, they can get very weird, but to me Jeremy Brett is the definitive Holmes. I saw Watson in something the other day, Edward Hardwicke? I can't remeber if it was contempory or not. That's going to bug me now.
Hardwicke turns up in "Love, Actually", briefly.
However, he's not Watson yet in the BBC-2 run - it's still David Burke up to and including "The Final Problem." Hardwicke took over after that until the end of the series.
That's a very good story, Paul, I am really impressed. You should be proud of your writing skills. I have to say that I don't envy you for your dreams!
Thank you all. It was just the image of the brains and the eyes in jars that came in the dream really, but as soon as I woke up I knew I had to use it somewhere. I was a little worried that it might end up being too similar to Roald Dahl's "William and Mary" from his "Tales of the Unexpected", but I hope I managed to avoid coming too close.
Yeah, I thought about the title but couldn't think of anything decent!
Read it out at the Creative Writing Society feedback meeting yesterday, and quite a few of the women there expressed unhappiness at the inherant - well, quite blatant, frankly - misogyny of the story. As well they should, I might add. It is quite a sexist story when it boils down to it, or rather it involves misogynystic characters, but that's the sort of story I wanted to tell. I wanted them to be grotesque men.
Any of the women who've read it here similarly unhappy?