Had a great writing day yesterday. I went down to the local coffee shop (I say local; it was a Costa) and typed for around two hours. It’s amazing how a change of scene can inspire you and help you concentrate on the job at hand. I got around one thousand two hundred words down of my WIP, so I intend to smash that figure today. On a side note, I was sent an amazing audioplay by a very talented writer, Jessica Gilbert, last night. Definitely a name to look out for in the future, and I’m continually impressed by the resilience of my Canadian writer friend, Caroline Herbert. She’s writing her debut novel “The Things We Find in the Apocalypse” and it’s a corker. That’s all for now. And remember, keeeeeeep writing! Or reading, or both 😄
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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JOHN D. PAYNE IS WRITING 