That's what I am by the warm welcome and response to my first posts. I've a few friends who've been supportive (and probably exasperated by my insecurities) but it's so nice to be sure that 'views' isn't translating into 'read the first lines, no sex, moved on'. :)
I've a few more complete stories but most are pencilled in for rewrites before I let them see the light of day. I'm currently working as I said before on a longer project called 'Midnight Angels' - it's in a similar vein to 'Nightingale' but set in the winter of 1940... it's about an elaborate ruse de guerre by the RAF to make the enemy belive they're using women nightfighter pilots and is just about the most complex thing I've attempted as there are three central tg characters each with their own storylines, a sizeable supporting cast and a counter-espionage sub-plot.
On top of that I have the story of the TS artist I mentioned above which I attempted a while ago and badly botched, but I think I've got a better handle on it and really want to go back to it. The first part is loosely modelled on the life of Aubrey Beardsley; the second is wholly original and takes place in the last few years before the Great War while the final part is set in the last year of the war.
Before I get to that tho I have a modern day ghost story called 'At Last' which was written in longhand a few weeks back when my PC went pfft, and just needs to be typed and proofed.
If you're not all begging for mercy by that point I have a long planned series of short stories about an Edwardian paparazzo called Natty Sharpe who gets scoops thanks to his alter ego Trixie Smart, a possible sequel to 'Midnight Angels' set in 1942 Russia, a cultural change story with three central characters / storylines in three different periods, a possible sequel to 'Nightingale' set ten years later and there's always the possibility that I might think of something else in the meantime!
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Interesting
These are interesting story ideas. You certainly seem to do a good job researching your material. You mentioned "Nightingale". Is that a story posted at another site perhaps? Being a history nut and aviation fan "Midnight Angels" sounds intriguing.
Hugs!
grover
Veni, vidi, legi
In that order. Should I want it to be (and I don't) vidi, legi, veni, then BC is not where I would look. And that's how I like it to be, and why I come to BC every day; and judging from comments that I've read here, many others like it that way too.
Now you've teased us (me at least) with the description of possible treats in store, I hope you will deliver. If those works-in-progess match your first two postings, you will make this reader very happy.
I could just remember back to the time-setting of Nightingale (and BTW Grover, that story is published here on BC, and at this moment it's still on the front page) but I was living at the time in what is now Angharad-country; ie out in the sticks. We had the privation - I remember sweets coming 'off the ration' - but I did not experience the netherworld that forms the background to the story. That background is very familiar however, from the abundant crime fiction that I read in my youth, and which had been written when the War and the post-war Austerity were recent memories. The sense of time and place you conveyed was masterful - but if you go back before 1945 do remember that the telephone was amost a mystical instrument then, and had very limited distribution.
Frieda
PS: My dog-latin may well be faulty; if you do the sums you can guess how long it has been since I was at school. Any correction would be welcomed.