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Posted by Squeers, Friday, 13 August 2010 11:03:53 AM
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Good Morning Squeers and Poirot,
I just jumped in to check what was happening on this site - and oh joy! I can't stay for long as I've got a busy morning ahead of me - however, I think the following websites may appeal: http://www.pgwodehousebooks.com/ And http://www.pgwodehousebooks.com/articles.htm "Articles - Newspaper Extracts." There's Stephen Fry's - Times article and Hugh Laurie's - "Wodehouse Saved My Life." that are worth looking at. Anyway, I'll be back with more, later on... Posted by Foxy, Friday, 13 August 2010 11:11:37 AM
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Dear Foxy,
thanks for the great links. Have you read Fry's novel, "The Stars' Tennis Balls"? Definitely a rip-off of "The Count of Monte Cristo" but a terrific read. I've always imagined Fry as playing my Bishop when, naturally, my novel was turned into a film :-) Dear Poirot, I think it's amazing that we're both writing about clerical life (mine's a tragi-comedy) and I wonder if we can contrive to show each other a couple of our chapters for feedback; compare notes? Posted by Squeers, Friday, 13 August 2010 2:14:12 PM
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Dear Foxy,
Thanks for the links - excellent! Dear Squeers, My cleric is a bit of a rotter - and it's mainly set in a manor and it's surrounds. It's all rather silly really, but I was trying to write true to Wodehouse form as I liked his light-hearted treatment of human foibles. But I am interested in reading those sort of clerical themed works. How would we go about showing our stuff to each other - any ideas? Just have to mention that I love John Mortimer's Rumpole stories - Rumpole is another hero of mine. Posted by Poirot, Friday, 13 August 2010 3:18:11 PM
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Poirot: <My cleric is a bit of a rotter - and it's mainly set in a manor and it's surrounds. It's all rather silly really, but I was trying to write true to Wodehouse form as I liked his light-hearted treatment of human foibles. But I am interested in reading those sort of clerical themed works.
How would we go about showing our stuff to each other - any ideas?> Dear Poirot, my cleric is an arsehole! I dunno, maybe Foxy or one of the other OLO savants knows how we can do the trade yet preserve anonymity? Though I wouldn't mind getting to know you. Posted by Squeers, Friday, 13 August 2010 6:21:57 PM
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Dear Squeers,
"I dunno, maybe Foxy or one of the other OLO savants knows how we can do the trade yet preserve anonymity. Though I wouldn't mind getting to know you." Same here. Amazingly I've managed to locate my story without too much trouble. It's typewritten so I'll have to retype it up onto a document. Posted by Poirot, Friday, 13 August 2010 7:33:50 PM
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The story does sound interesting...and developing promisingly. I'd love to read it, as I'm sure would others here, so you'd better keep working and get it published:-)