Thought of The Day

I'm not really into Thoughts of the Day, because usually people nod their heads wisely in agreement without having a clue what it means.

I remember somebody telling me once that he read a few pages of a philosophy book and he couldn't understand a word of it.
"It was brilliant," he said.
"But how do you know it was brilliant?" I asked. "You didn't understand a word of it."
"Exactly," he said.

Now you may think that was incredibly profound, but I've studied it from every possible angle and I still conclude that this was a dumb-ass trying in vain to be intelligent.

Anyway, I'm going to be a complete hypocrite now. I was watching Undercover Boss Canada yesterday and a young lady who had transformed her life beyond recognition had the following statement tattooed on her arm -

"I know who I am and I know who I could be if I choose to be."

I did like that.
And I think I understood it, too.

Jigsaw Pieces

The pieces of the jigsaw are all over the place, to be honest.
There are so many pieces and the difficult part is knowing where to start.

I need to work on my characters. They have names. They have bodies. They have faces. And yet I need to develop personalities which make them unique, flawed and yet ultimately endearing. I need to study my settings (welsh vallleys, Porthcawl, Merthyr) and my eras (seventies onwards). And I need to know comedy like the back of my hand.

I'm a bit overwhelmed, to be honest.

But at least I do have some pieces and I have a plan.
I have completed enough research to start my drafting next week.
It will all piece together, honest.


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