Richmond Road: Blog

Thank you to the reader who challenged me on not tackling the difficulties of life in my story; you are absolutely right, I do need to put some 'downs' in rather than everything going smoothly all the time. I've been holding off, but now I'm going to bite the bullet and start making life more difficult for my heroes and heroines! RR

Apologies for taking so long to post this next chapter - I got caught by the trap of Continuity! I had to do a lot of checking the rest of the story to ensure I wasn't contradicting myself. Another very good lesson learned in the school of Experience and Hard Knocks....

Thanks to everybody who was kind enough to respond to my last (and first!) blog entry about voting - and especially to those who take the trouble to tell me that they are enjoying my story. I write for my enjoyment, but I publish on SoL in the hope of giving other people a bit of acceptable light reading.

I only started writing fiction a few months back; I'm finding that story continuity is a LOT harder than I thought it would be when I embarked on this writing lark. I hope I can keep it up until the end - almost 90,000 words already in the last one of the series, and a lot of loose ends still to tie up.

I'm a bit confused!

I've worked out how to look at the detailed scores for my stories, and for some reason I've been give some '1's when most people seem happy enough. Looking at the graphs, the '1' is certainly an outlier.

Okay, so the description of the cricket match in 'The Summer Holidays' didn't go down too well with some people, but I am trying to give some topical background as well; the first piece of feedback I received said that they'd like just a tiny bit of story with all the sex.

I reckon that my problem could be that 'Huw' must have recognised himself, and is trying to take some revenge by voting me down. If it is you, 'Huw', you were a juvenile little tosspot then, and it looks like you haven't matured any in the last forty years.

But, to the rest of you who are taking the trouble to vote or to leave feedback, and who are giving me encouraging scores of seven to ten; I say "thank you so much". I'm delighted that so many of you seem to be enjoying my little series.

Knowing that I'm giving you something to smile about makes it all worthwhile.

And 'Huw', you can just bog off.