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First Draft Done and Dusted

John Payne

You’ll be glad to hear that I’ve just completed the first draft of the fifth and final (for now) short story in the Pulse Hospital Radio Chronicles. Now it’s time to leave it to brew for a bit, and then go back to it and despair at the monster I have created. Ha ha! Only joking (hopefully)

I’m quite happy with what I’ve written, and I like the way I’ve tied things up but also opened up a new thread which will continue in a full length novel. There’s a connection to the very first short story (Richmond’s Rarity) as well, via the completely made up song ‘Too Much of a Good Thing is a Bad Thing (Sweet Thing)’ by the (also completely made up) band The Raz Raz Band. I’ve got to work on the cover of the new story now and the cover of the collection of all five stories, so I’ll crack on. I’ll let you know when the new stuff is coming out. Ta ta for now.

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Published by John Payne

I write novels and short stories and draw and write cartoons. The main cartoon I'm working on at the moment is Still Life. It's about a man who sits at home on his sofa all day and yet bizarre things still happen to him. At the moment him and his sofa are stuck on a desert island. Check out Still Life Series Five: Beyond the Sofa on this site. My debut novel is out now. It's called 'A Fifth Visitor', and it's a very unofficial sequel to 'A Christmas Carol'. The story picks up five years after the events of Dickens' classic, and we see how Scrooge is getting on with his promise to always keep Christmas. A new spirit pays him a visit and convinces Scrooge that he's not doing enough to redeem himself, so they both travel to the future to save a young nurse called Grace, but there's something big that this new spirit is keeping to himself. I'm developing a website dedicated to my writing, so watch this space. One of my short stories is available on amazon kindle. If you want to check it out, it's called 'Richmond's Rarity'. It's about a late night hospital radio DJ. I've written it under my author name of John D Payne.

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