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[Stuart]

did I? Christ my memory is terrible!

[Debbie]

LOL. Mitigating circumstances were involved, I reckon!

[Stuart]

Listening to James Taylor whilst writing - now I remember that bit! (only because you reminded me on Sunday morning though!)

[Debbie]

Aha! I have found a purpose in life. Prompter of the Tollesbury bard...I knew I'd get there eventually. ;)

[Stuart]

You're worth more than that! I'm just a drunken fool who writes what comes into his head!

[Debbie]

Stuart wrote: "You're worth more than that! I'm just a drunken fool who writes what comes into his head!"

:) Bring on the booze!

[Stuart]

bloody right!

[Stuart]

22,000 words written now in The Magical, Tragical Life of Edward Jarvis Huggins.

Here's a snippet:

"I remember you Ruthie at school in the nineteen-eighties. You were so cool yet abashed and out of reach. You looked like the lead singer from Swing Out Sister but you never did really break out. Or perhaps you did and I was just too caught up to notice, caught up in your Egypt eyes and the way you walked with such sway and such lightness, so oblivious to fools like me. Had I known what you had been through in the seventeen-forties I wouldn’t have hidden your putty rubber. Well not hidden it so well, anyway. It’s a strange old mixed up world that I have fallen into and that’s for sure."

[Debbie]

Putty rubbers! I'd forgotten about those!

Good, good. 22K. Going well then!

[Stuart]

getting there! Not as fast as you though! Aiming to finish it by August and have it out end of October

[Stuart]

Got a short thing called Basel Days I may finish in between times. And of course there's Salounatics!

[Debbie]

Stuart wrote: "getting there! Not as fast as you though! Aiming to finish it by August and have it out end of October"

That's fast enough! Ironically (possibly) it's only since we've been friends that I've been writing at this ludicrous speed / volume, and remember asking you how on earth you did it! However, I believe there is some saying about quality, not quantity, that applies here!

Salounatics... :) I recall mention of this.

[Stuart]

It's all just the way it is! God, I didn't tell you what me, Spanner and Irish John got up to in Salou did I???

[Debbie]

Erm, you may have mentioned it a little, yes.

[Stuart]

bugger. Now if I can make a beautiful story out of that madness then I may well be a genius!!!

[Stuart]

sorry if I was a bit blamowed at the weekend by the way!

[Debbie]

Stuart wrote: "Now if I can make a beautiful story out of that madness then I may well be a genius!!!"

I think probably most people would already say you are. Plus it's a great story!

And no need to apologise! It was fun. You are you, and (to borrow a phrase from something I read a while ago) you are wonderful, blammowed or not! :)

[Stuart]

hah! Cheers! I had a vague inkling to stand back and watch everything happen but when I got to The Red Lion at 12:30 it all kind of fell apart!

[Stuart]

Just awoke to find Tollesbury Time Forever in the USA Top 100 paid chart!

[David]

Great! Well done.

[Stuart]

Thank you David!!! Really pleased!

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

How exciting, nice one!

[Kath]

Well done! It deserves it! Unique writing. (And I DO know what unique means!) ;)

[Debbie]

Nice one, Stu! Right where it belongs!

[Stuart]

Thank you Rosemary and Kath! The latest one I'm writing is ten times better so anything that Tollesbury and the others do is a bonus!

[Stuart]

Debbie wrote: "Nice one, Stu! Right where it belongs!"

Thank you Deb!

[Stuart]

Here are the titles of the first ten chapters of The Magical Tragical Life of Edward Jarvis Huggins:

1. I Love You Ruthie
2. All Ecstasy and Joy Beholding
3. The Wind Cries Mary
4. Time to Boogie Chillun'
5. The Tall and Shadowy Trees
6. Madsad and Perpetual
7. Good People Have Always Had the Blues
8. Shuddershakes in the Land of the Wow
9. In Need of Reeds
10. Sweet Baby Jakes

[Debbie]

Cool. How many chapters do you reckon it'll have once it's finished?

[Stuart]

30 all together - 10 in each part.

Part One: The Openers
Part Two: The Middle Order
Part Three: The Tale

Gradually coming together!

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Looks suspiciously like planning ahead Stu! ;)

[Stuart]

I know! Scary isn't it?!! :-)

[Stuart]

This book is like a film I'm watching in my mind so I kind of know roughly how it's going to go - I certainly know the ending which is a big and wonderful help!

[David]

I like the three parts, Stu. The cricket reference makes it a winner already! Does the story have much cricket in it?

[Stuart]

Cheers David.The book leads to a game of cricket played in 1744. More or less all of the final third describes the match - so yes I guess it does!

[David]

Woohoo!!!! A game of Cricket described by Stu Ayris should be magical! Can't wait.

[Stuart]

Hah! Thank you David!

[Vanessa]

Congratulations Stuart, have not spoken to you in ages... It's been a long time since I saw you had published your book via "The Word Cloud"

Vanessa :)

[Stuart]

Hi Vanessa!!! I remember! Yes - a long old, fun old time!

[Stuart]

29,000 words done now for The Magical Tragical Life of Edward Jarvis Huggins. I have written all the main characters into it now. Here's a list:

Edward Jarvis Huggins
Ruthie Huggins
Joe Huggins
Leland Hone
Arthur Shrewsbury
David Small
John Charleswood
Buck Howsky
Samuel Aritan
Aubrey Godley
Oaken (the mule)
Mordecai Stubbs
Sweet Baby Jakes
Daniel Early
James Early
Mr Ched
Anthony Beerman
Lionel Morrissey
Harry Purchase
John Munch

There may be one or two more pop up but these are the main ones!

[Stuart]

Closing in on 31,000 words now for The Magical Tragical Life of Edward Jarvis Huggins. Here are a few of them...

"Edward looked on, observing all that flowed before him as if he had created the very scene himself, every nuance and every pulse, every chuckle and every aghast. Ruthie, having delivered the ale, had turned in all essence to pure steam, her body consisting now merely of orgasmic droplets of nothing, entering an air that wasn’t there, a space within space, a universe that existed only in starsparkle, quiver and rhyme. Thus was she in raptures amidst the drinking men."

[Debbie]

Ah. Ever am I a fan. Starsparkle.

[Stuart]

cheers Debbie. Really loving how it's coming along.

[Stuart]

Here is the draft blurb for The Magical Tragical Life of Edward Jarvis Huggins...

"There are idiots. There are idiot savants. And there is Edward Jarvis Huggins – the ten year old boy who believes he is the returning Messiah.

Through an accident of birth, a sequence of apparent co-incidences and an innate self-belief, others begin to wonder whether Edward Jarvis Huggins may indeed be more than just a strange little boy who speaks to the moon and the stars.

For every Edward Jarvis Huggins, there is a Mordecai Stubbs and a Sweet Baby Jakes – the vicious, Georgian gangsters who hold South London in their sway. When they meet, there will be blood. No doubt about it. But, as becomes clear in the devastating climax, nothing is ever quite what it seems…

The Magical Tragical Life of Edward Jarvis Huggins is a novel about faith, friendship, love and destiny set in Southern England in 1744."

[Debbie]

Like it a lot! I'm totally getting you to write my blurbs for me!

[Stuart]

Hah! Cheers!

[Stuart]

16 chapters and 40,000 words now written for The Magical Tragical Life of Edward Jarvis Huggins. I know how the cover is going to look and the blurb is pretty much written. Another 35,000 words and it's done. Then the fun begins...

[Debbie]

Woo! That's cool.

Just seen a bloke looks like you on another social network. Coincidence, or what? ;)

[Stuart]

Colin Farrell?

[Debbie]

Ah yeah, that'll be him.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

He has the wrong accent.