Just plain contrary

I'm going to christen my computer the Procrastination Station, I think. I can't think of any good reason why when I'm at work with both hands busy, music playing and am trying to concentrate I get characters chatting away in the back of my minds and coming up with some half way decent dialogue and business, but when I'm at home and quiet and could actually write it all down they shut up and hide.

So frustrating!

But I did have one idea that made me giggle a lot this morning and in a coup of lateral thinking I've written that down on a bit of paper. Hah! They weren't expecting that.

Blog trotting again.

This time I didn't have to do much at all - I just handed young Philon over to Sue Roebuck and let her chat to him. I figured that everyone is probably bored with listening to me so I let a character have his say instead.

You know, Sue is a bit of a bad influence. She introduced me to the idea of writing original character fan fic with the original character writing Star Wars fanfic. Not really a possibility with historical characters so I used a contemporary one - Benedict Morcambe, Englishman abroad, trying to run a second hand bookshop not far from the university in Chicago and sadly afflicted by the rock band that practices in his garage.

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