When you go blogging, you can edit your posts as you go along. I often have second thoughts about my writing. Sometimes my writing is out of date soon after it is written. I have already updated my first post because I had further news from Judy Goodlet. The IT event in aid of the Radio Solent Daisy Appeal will be on December 20th!
My first example was not really a blog. Judy Goodlet has been writing on the web for more than five years but she does not wriite a personal diary and she does not rely upon her readers' comments.
My second example really is a blog. I hope that you will find it interesting.
My first example was not really a blog. Judy Goodlet has been writing on the web for more than five years but she does not wriite a personal diary and she does not rely upon her readers' comments.
My second example really is a blog. I hope that you will find it interesting.
Kate Mosse in the picture used to live in Fishbourne and now lives in Bognor and Carcassone with her husband Greg and her family. You can find her blog at http://www.mosselabyrinth.co.uk/Kate's on-line blogging experiment was to see if it was possible, using the internet, to share the process of writing a historical novel - Labyrinth - and to encourage new directions in her on-line visitors' reading and creative writing. Labyrinth was published last year and became a best seller.
In her blog, Kate writes that her experiment was, then, to discover this:
- if I share everything with you, the reader of the novel, will you reach the same conclusions, the same relationships of characters and locations and events that I did.
Kate and Greg now work together teaching creative writing at West Dean College.
Kate has also written the introduction to the recently published Fishbourne Book, which is a collection of memories of Fishbourne people about their village. She says that " Fishbourne was in Miss Marple's terms, a proper English village, large enough to suit all sorts, Yet small enough to make you feel you belonged"
I have happy memories of Fishbourne. One thing that surprised me was that it is claimed in the book that Fishbourne is now better known than Chichester. If you are travelling abroad, people will more easily understand if you say that you live near Fishbourne than if you say that you live near Chichester!!
I am beginning to work out why I am writing this Blog. My experiment will be to see if I can help my readers to write a blog, by inviting them to read mine.
Geoffrey Boys
3 comments:
Thanks for mentioning Labyrinth. Kate is a great person, along with being a great writer!
Just picked up your blog via Eclipse and my WEbmail, congratulations.
We are in Malaysia. Hotel excellent with free computer!
Hi Geoffrey,
Thank you for mentioning The Fishbourne Book on your Blog. Readers might like to know that this is a local history of Fishbourne village over the past hundred years told mainly through memories. It also includes notable people associated with the village, the local geology and natural history and its industrial past centred on the mills at the head of Fishbourne Creek, part of the Chichester Harbour AONB.
In uncovering the history of local businesses like your own Boys Garage, 1927 - 1973, and the village bakers, the pubs and the craftsmen and craftswomen, the school, the church and so on, the history of Fishbourne reflects that of many another English village in the twentieth century. What makes it different, of course, is the presence of the world famous Fishbourne Roman Palace, the largest Roman building of its kind north of the Alps, with the largest collection of in situ mosaics in Britain. The impact of its discovery in 1960 on village life also makes interesting reading in itself! And its Director, David Rudkin, has contributed a sizeable entry.
After the Book Launch on Nov.11th the initial print run of 1200 copies is almost but not quite sold out. As you know it is a big book - 672 pages with over 250 illustrations. We now have to consider what next with regard to The Fishbourne Book itself and also to any further stories, memories and photos that come to light in response. For the latter, could blogging be a possibility?
Mary Hand, Editor of The Fishbourne Book
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