Jesse Owen

I know it’s old news that Casualty is leaving Bristol, it’s done, decided, yada, yada, yada. But I was talking with my brother last night and we discovered quite a big problem with the move from Bristol to Wales.

Casualty is based in Holby City which in a way is linked with Bristol and inevitably this means that most of the patients have west country accents (or at least the hint of it).

When the program moves to Wales we’re going to be hearing a change in accent from west country-ish to welsh (as I don’t think they would and I don’t think it would be fair to move the whole program to Wales and still cast actors from the west country).

So there you see is the problem – it’s in my eyes a continuity problem, the question is will it be noticed?

I didn’t really do any research or more note taking for my latest story idea yesterday (tut, tut lol) but this isn’t the tiny set back. The tiny set back is that this morning I started reading Dancing Jax and from reading the blurb it started to sound a bit too similar to what I was planning to write.

Now this is only a tiny set back as I have begun to read and I think the similarities are limited to just one tiny point and so my resulting story will be completely different, in fact the more I think about it the more different they sound – even the tone would be completely different.

So I’m going to continue thinking about mine and continue to make notes and see where it takes me.

The other day I posted that I would start outlining that idea which I thought would make a good story … I changed my mind. I still like the idea but I don’t think I’m ready for it yet – maybe it needs to percolate some more lol.

However whilst out on my regular walk yesterday another, fresher idea started forming – one that I like, like a million times more. Last night I started making some notes on the story – just rough ideas to explore the idea a bit and generated about 5 pages of the things.

Bits of backstory came out in those couple of hours, bits of what could happen and even a couple of scenes cropped up.

I’m not even close to ready to outlining it yet – I need to know a LOT more before I can even think of that but the world is fleshing out a bit so I’m happy.

It was at the beginning of last year that I decided I was going to try and write a novel, since then the best I’ve managed to write is only a NaNoWriMo first draft which a couple of weeks after finishing I decided was lets put it bluntly … rubbish. And so didn’t take it any further.

Aside from this all I have are discarded attempts at other ideas abandoned after just a few chapters (or less in many cases). I’ve always been having ideas, the first one I remember was when I was in year 6 named the First Terrible Christmas and it was about a Christmas, although to be fair there was nothing terrible about the Christmas – at all!

That all being ignored (and the fact that it was in itself terrible) my teacher at the time took an interest in it and let me spend time typing it up and when it was all typed and printed the school bound it in the black plastic binder things and red cardboard. It lasted for ages but eventually the binding got damaged and it was thrown out (by me).

At secondary school I gave up on the thought of writing (based on my original attempts hehe) but I still kept entertaining the ideas that kept cropping up from time to time, building them a little in my mind in breaks and lunch times.

But I never did anything about it, I figured I was never going to be able to develop an idea that was any good – not worth reading by me let alone anyone else. But this brings me back to NaNoWriMo – it was something that I decided I was going to take part in at the beginning of last year – I kind of thought what have I got to loose. Admittedly in my opinion the result wasn’t very good but it gave me a kind of confidence that if I could finish one book maybe I could finish another one and it would be better.

And that … is the plan, I have an idea which was first inspired years ago and every now and again it comes back to me bigger and with more detail, so my mind is switching to lets give this a whirl, let’s do it – I mean what’s the worst that can happen.

Now do I plan or not plan, that is the question – I think I might start with an outline and see how I feel after that.

Well here it is for what must be the sixth time I’ve tried to keep a personal blog – this is going to kind of be a little bit of a secret here on the web – in other words I’m not going to tell anyone about it, at least not yet (no one needs to know do they?)

So if you’ve found me, um – hello, hey, hiya and welcome – please leave your shoes by the door and come into the living room. The view from here is lovely (well at least the view of the blog is, the view of what I’m looking at now … not so much )

I thought i’d start it (again) to try and keep a record of what I’m up to and see what happens.