I’ve been going over all the previous stories in the Pulse Hospital Radio Chronicles with my cold blooded, ruthless editor’s head on (ready for when I release them all as a collection) and I’m surprised at how much I’ve learnt since that first story. I had no idea that I’d be able to milk the idea over five short stories when I first started, and I pretty much made them up as I went along, so now I’m enjoying the opportunity to insert little subtle details into the earlier stories to make it look like I knew what I was doing all along (at least to newcomers to the series, like my friend Roy).
Making it Up as I Go Along
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. View all posts by John Payne
JOHN D. PAYNE IS WRITING 