Thats according to my psychiatrist friend who took Almir's case history last night over a chinese meal in Islington - she suggested a few behavioural embelishments and the session was really helpful. I did then realise that there are some timeline gaps about his past and growing up I still need to plug and I need to perhaps consider changing the openning of the novel. I am now wondering whether I should drop the whole witness protection story and just have Almir come to the UK as a refugee? Well, will discuss it with my writing mentor in a couple of weeks. Meantime need to get cracking with producing some more new material today and over the weekend.
A fellow writer from my local writers group - Linda Stratman - has got a new publishing deal for her historical novel with The History Press. Thats inspirational news.She also doing someting for the BBC. It still feels a long way off for me...but thats just how it is I suppose.
BG
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It's great that you're getting so much guidance from experts. You may need to do a bit of research on immigration -- maybe Almir could have been in one of those centres near Heathrow and made a few contacts that way?
ReplyDeleteI've been making contact with a photographer of tattooed people as part of my research!
YOU MUST BE READING MY THOUGHTS MIKE!
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