Denham Forrest: Blog

Something odd happening while attempting to post this morning. It might be a hick-up with the site or possibly it might something I'm not doing right myself.

I'll take a break now and try again later.

DC

Again I thank everyone for the kind emails concerning Ted and Stella. I'll try to find time to reply to them during the next few days or so.

However it appears that some readers have mistaken the posting for the "new yarn" I mentioned -- probably prematurely -- a couple of weeks ago.

90% of the two recently posted chapters were in fact written many many months ago, but I thought that it just wasn't working. I knew that something was wrong, I just didn't know what. In fact the only problem was, that some idiot had written the individual scenes in the wrong damned order. Once the penny finally dropped in my dumb brain a little "cut and pasting" led to the chapters being ready for posting after adding just a few lines of text.

My apologies for the delay in posting the new yarn, I hope that it will appear soon. However it is a much longer yarn/novel, stretching to roughly 11 chapters +. At this time three chapters have been returned by the proofreaders, but I have a rule not to post any chapters until they have all been proofread. I've found people get upset when the chapters do not appear on the sites regularly.

Having a guest here, has been great fun. However very tiring for me and more probably more than a little boring for Papatoad. However we both thank everyone for their kind wishes.

And yes, I have tried to talk the bugger into posting some more yarns of his own.

DC

Although I have both the last chapters of this story available, I was not intending to post for another week or so because I have a house guest arriving today. For those who know of him Papatoad.


Finding myself at a lose-end last evening I posted chapter 3 with the hope I'd be able to get Chapter 4 up today. However our power has been off all day and has only just come back on again. (Yes we had been warned in advance but this silly old bugger forgot about it until everything died this morning.)


Regretfully I now have to leave to collect our guest from the railway station and as he will be using my study/guestroom for the next few days Chapter 4 will have to wait.


I'm sorry I will not be able to reply individually to all those nice emails I've received in the last twenty-four hours. DC

I'm pleased to announce that today I sent a draft (all 70,000 odd words of the bugger) to be proofread. Now things are beyond my control because we have to wait upon others.

This particular yarn is quite unique because it's had the longest gestation period of any story that I've posted since I first appeared on the modern internet.

It began life as a Wanderer yarn -- I believe circa 2005 -- but eventually it was abandoned. Then a few years later Denham Forrest began another yarn that followed the same fate. However one day in 2009 while trawling through the 'Maybe I'll get back to that bugger sometime' folder, I had an epiphany. With a few changes and additions the two yarns could be intermingled/merged into one.

Unfortunately it has taken far too many years to carry-out the operation, much more cutting and rewriting involved than I had first envisaged.

But now I'm happy to be able to say that last evening I typed those familiar words "Life goes On!"

Mind you, I still gotta write the bleeding epilogue!

DC

I might be a dumb old bugger, but I've suddenly realized something important.

Although many people who've read my yarns were on this planet during the sixties; going by some of the comments and emails I've received over the years, I've been forced to come to the conclusion that not so many of the people who were alive at the time, actually "lived" or took full advantage of the opportunities that golden era bestowed upon us.

Or maybe they just missed-it because they'd "got high" instead! ;-)