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November 04, 2005
Be careful what you write about
Just imagine for a moment that you lived in a mad mad world. you know, one of those strange places where people challenge each other to write 50,000 words in a month. FOR FUN?!
Just say you planned this spooky ghosty story about a certain place in the world where children fall from cliffs into the sea and there is a giant search operation but the bodies are never found. Just say you had a particular place in mind, you changed the name ( and a couple of other things for the sake of the plot) but anybody who had been there would probably recognise where you were writing about.
Day four and you are tapping away on the keyboard while listening to the radio and you hear, no surely you think you hear a news story about some boys who have been swept out to sea IN THAT VERY PLACE.
For certainly you are going mad.
Just to reassure yourself you type the name of the place into the BBC news search engine and Oh My God, there is the whole sad story in black and white.
Would you be as spooked as me?
Next year I’m definitely sticking to the teddy bear novel. There can never be enough news items about teddy bears.
Posted by purple elephant at November 4, 2005 11:19 PM