Hi there, thanks for your reply. Hmm, I think there's something a bit glitchy about communicating here. But thanks for persevering it was really good to read your messages. It will be good to chat in person about all of the different work you've done. I'm so glad to hear that there were so many people around to help you when you were very ill. Even so, it must have taken a v philosophical approach to get through it.
You are so clearly such a creative person. I loved reading your thoughts on the difference between scriptwriting and prose.
Yes, you saw that I'd put some ideas for who to act out the story - that was on a Wattpad prompt. I mentioned my daughter was really into me posting my story here - so we just picked out some actors together as a kind of fun/silly thing to do. So I now see, when I look at the photos again, how young they look. So it goes: first the story sits for ages on an ancient computer which is now probably some awful piece of ewaste somewhere, and now it sits on an interactive - or something - website with no-one reading it ... well, I can make one exception to that - YOU are reading it - so thank you for that. Actually, getting down to writing a sequel for it made me go back and take another look, as did getting a notification that you'd left a comment.
Back to the actors chosen... well, I did my best to match how I'd already visualised my characters - and actually I can truly see Bjork as Sedna and Catherine Zeta-Jones hamming it up as Mrs Withy, also Capaldi as Incarna...
I think I too may run out of space soon... now you've mentioned a character count, I can see some numbers flashing along as I type...
I think my main frustration is not working with an artist. I tried to commission one of my students to do the cover, but she really didn't seem to grasp how I saw the book and her illustration didn't work at all unfortunately. In my mind, I see all the landscapes, and the tin opening and light pouring out of it (or darkness) ...
