In an attempt to raise the bar and increase traffic to this blog, I have started to rent out advertising space via the Blogexplosion website. If you look at the right sidebar and scroll down to the middle, you will find a link to Spaghetti Harvest, a blog from an American mother with her own business. Why did I accept her offer for my advertising space? Well, she was vaguely normal for a start. The other applicants were either boasting about their sexuality, preaching about god or had a fascinating with the National Rifle Association and so were discounted. Click on the link and check her out. Every week I will be giving people the chance to advertise on that space, so keep an eye on it.
On a separate note, I realise I have reached a crucial point with “Dead Rock Star”. I am now at 10 chapters and 31,000+ words. I am approximately half-way through it and the old syndrome is kicking in. Do I stop and start writing something else or do I continue onwards into the word blizzard? Chapter ten was surprisingly tricky and it invovled the character Daniel De’Ath convincing his bandmates that the idea of a ghost writing lyrics for a new album would be a good marketing tool. There was a lot of dialogue and a lot of arguing and I am not sure if it worked yet. Still waiting for a report back from The Missus. I am now sitting here with the chapter “The Ghost of Abbey Road” staring blankly back at me. I know where I need to go with this, but I’ve forgotten the route. Do I feel lost? Yes! There’s no roadmap when you write a novel.
For Rent
Dude, thanks for the plug, but just so ya know, I’m Canadian. 🙂
American? Canadian? You guys all came from England or Europe, my colonial cousin. 😉
Now now….my ancestors were United Empire Loyalists. That means they were loyal to the crown and fled the US during that whole take over fiasco, which is the difference between the two. And beer. And moose. And our use of “eh’s”.
Like I said, we are all branches from the same tree, cousin. 😉
(Of course, if you want to be really clever about it, we could go all Darwin and try and establish a common ancestor!)
hey, just so you know- there is in fact a guy called Daniel De’Ath, who used to go to school with Peter Doherty (babyshambles, The Libertines) and co-wrote ‘Albion’, the new single, although you will probably not see his name on the inside sleeve. so there.
interesting!
Thanks for the heads up, Mari.
It was pure co-incidence and I didn’t know about “The Libertines” link. I heard the De’Ath name being discussed on the radio and I thought with the addition of the Christian name “Daniel” it would make an excellent name for the leader of a Goth rock band.
Ain’t life a funny old thing?