Writing for Pleasure and profit

The first stirrings of the writing itch are beginning to needle away at the back of my head. For the first time in months any writing I am likely to do is because I want to do it and not because I am under an (admittedly self-imposed) obligation.

telemeister, bless him, has suggested by email that it is time that I wrote more "Dimpler Towers" stuff, but this time with something resembling a plot. The man is patently a buffoon. Where am I going to get a plot from? If it was that easy, I’d have done it years ago¹. Nonetheless, I have a couple of ideas, but not really enough to hang even a short story on. I can manage a ‘shaggy dog’ story along with the best of them, but a proper short story currently eludes me.

To this end, I am inviting ideas from anyone who can think of anything at all that I may be able to weave into a short piece of idiocy for the Dimpler family. Three short phrases is all I’m looking for: a starting position, an objective and a favoured finishing point. If any ideas look complementary, I’ll see if they can be sliced in as sub plots.

I have no idea of the timescale involved; I have no intention of submerging myself in writing, but just having somewhere to go with it would be helpful.

If you have a favoured time period, that would help, too, if only for the purposes of atmosphere. The Dimpler family came over from France with the Conqueror in 1066 (more precisely just after the Conqueror, as part of the catering).

As a not entirely unconnected request, anyone with thoughts on the size of pot needed to grow a bonsai Canadian Redwood should feel free to let me have their thoughts.

Work now, I guess…



¹This is not entirely true, for I am a lazy git.

Writing for Pleasure and profit

The first stirrings of the writing itch are beginning to needle away at the back of my head. For the first time in months any writing I am likely to do is because I want to do it and not because I am under an (admittedly self-imposed) obligation.

telemeister, bless him, has suggested by email that it is time that I wrote more "Dimpler Towers" stuff, but this time with something resembling a plot. The man is patently a buffoon. Where am I going to get a plot from? If it was that easy, I’d have done it years ago¹. Nonetheless, I have a couple of ideas, but not really enough to hang even a short story on. I can manage a ‘shaggy dog’ story along with the best of them, but a proper short story currently eludes me.

To this end, I am inviting ideas from anyone who can think of anything at all that I may be able to weave into a short piece of idiocy for the Dimpler family. Three short phrases is all I’m looking for: a starting position, an objective and a favoured finishing point. If any ideas look complementary, I’ll see if they can be sliced in as sub plots.

I have no idea of the timescale involved; I have no intention of submerging myself in writing, but just having somewhere to go with it would be helpful.

If you have a favoured time period, that would help, too, if only for the purposes of atmosphere. The Dimpler family came over from France with the Conqueror in 1066 (more precisely just after the Conqueror, as part of the catering).

As a not entirely unconnected request, anyone with thoughts on the size of pot needed to grow a bonsai Canadian Redwood should feel free to let me have their thoughts.

Work now, I guess…



¹This is not entirely true, for I am a lazy git.