A Bullet Dodged
Hi Folks,
It's strange how things happen. About four months ago I decided to see if I could write a private detective story. I decided that my hero would be an ex military police officer who had been dishonourably discharged from the army. When we first meet him he's just started his agency and is so broke that he's living in his office to save money.
To help create the impression of a professional agency he's advertised for an office junior (She would be little more than a filing clerk and would be paid peanuts). But she turns out to be a natural detective.
I wrote about 10-15,000 words of the story before deciding that it lacked life and I filed it away. And its a good job I did because two weeks ago I started watching The Cuckoo's Calling on the BBC by Ms Rowling's and there on the screen were all the ingredients I'd been thinking about with the exception that my detective had two legs.
No one would have believed that I hadn't copied Ms Rowling's work. Nor would they have believed that other than skim reading her first Harry Potter book I've never read anything that she's written.
Take care,
Jim
It's strange how things happen. About four months ago I decided to see if I could write a private detective story. I decided that my hero would be an ex military police officer who had been dishonourably discharged from the army. When we first meet him he's just started his agency and is so broke that he's living in his office to save money.
To help create the impression of a professional agency he's advertised for an office junior (She would be little more than a filing clerk and would be paid peanuts). But she turns out to be a natural detective.
I wrote about 10-15,000 words of the story before deciding that it lacked life and I filed it away. And its a good job I did because two weeks ago I started watching The Cuckoo's Calling on the BBC by Ms Rowling's and there on the screen were all the ingredients I'd been thinking about with the exception that my detective had two legs.
No one would have believed that I hadn't copied Ms Rowling's work. Nor would they have believed that other than skim reading her first Harry Potter book I've never read anything that she's written.
Take care,
Jim
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