Writer's Block

Plan B

Plan B, let us call it Alexandria, is going well (probably). I am back to the uber efficient Germanic page a day regime. I have finished a thousand word storyline and am working through one page descriptions of the plot from the point of view of each of the five main characters. This gives me a lot of new information and delays the real writing for as long as possible. I had a Road to Damascus moment with one of the characters yesterday which was very exciting, but changes the whole storyline.

 I wish I could afford the exorbitant cost of a flight to Alexandria to research the location, and delay the real writing even more. But sadly I can't. An ideal scenario would be for Horse Painters to be accepted by a major publisher, (any publisher), thus providing funds to go to Alexandria to research Alexandria. Of course, there has been not a nibble and I feel like an elderly tart working the racecourses in the hope of finding an owner with a free weekend. But as we established recently failure is just testing the market and Joseph Conrad wrote Heart of Darkness without going to the Congo. I bet he wished he had though.