Abbey
Spork Queen
I just finished (hooray!!!) just ONE of my book's characters 58 hand written pages. Now I'm up to 1946. He's making progress.
The next 60 years or so could be LONG.
I'm giving him back his manuscript so he can continue. Maybe he'll make it to 1950 in under 50 pages. Naa...not going to happen.
Here's his first few paragraphs:
O CANADA
I am William Albert Waller, and was born August 22, 1919. The Albert is for my father, who was born and raised in Middlesboro, Yorkshire, England before 1900.
Albert was the son of Old Tom Waller and lost his mother through illness when he was a young teenager (probably from Pneumonia and exhaustion) from trying to raise a large family in North Eastern England near the North Sea. They lived at 42 Maple Street. The weather is a problem most of the year and Yorkshiremen are the Texans of Great Britain known for being stubborn and short sightedness.
My father became an apprentice carpenter at age 11. For the first three years his father, Old Tom, paid a yearly fee. The fourth year was free and the last three years he was paid a small sum including a yearly increase until at age 18 when he would become a journeyman carpenter.
[FONT="]I once expressed a teenagers interest in becoming a carpenter and he indicated it wasnt a good idea as Jesus Christ was a carpenter and they nailed him to the cross!
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I've decided not to edit his words. They speak to the times. His memory is amazing.
(Sorry about the formatting. Don't have time to figure it out.)
I'm off to open a new store and scare the living daylights out of a new demo lady. (insert wicked laughter)
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Abbey
The next 60 years or so could be LONG.
I'm giving him back his manuscript so he can continue. Maybe he'll make it to 1950 in under 50 pages. Naa...not going to happen.Here's his first few paragraphs:
O CANADA
I am William Albert Waller, and was born August 22, 1919. The Albert is for my father, who was born and raised in Middlesboro, Yorkshire, England before 1900.
Albert was the son of Old Tom Waller and lost his mother through illness when he was a young teenager (probably from Pneumonia and exhaustion) from trying to raise a large family in North Eastern England near the North Sea. They lived at 42 Maple Street. The weather is a problem most of the year and Yorkshiremen are the Texans of Great Britain known for being stubborn and short sightedness.
My father became an apprentice carpenter at age 11. For the first three years his father, Old Tom, paid a yearly fee. The fourth year was free and the last three years he was paid a small sum including a yearly increase until at age 18 when he would become a journeyman carpenter.
[FONT="]I once expressed a teenagers interest in becoming a carpenter and he indicated it wasnt a good idea as Jesus Christ was a carpenter and they nailed him to the cross!
...................
I've decided not to edit his words. They speak to the times. His memory is amazing.
(Sorry about the formatting. Don't have time to figure it out.)
I'm off to open a new store and scare the living daylights out of a new demo lady. (insert wicked laughter)
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Abbey
