Just a quick update. ‘Richmond’s Roadshow Revelation’ is still free on kindle til Friday night, and I’m up to part 4 of ‘Good Neighbour’, which I will release one day at a time exclusively on this site over the course of five days, so keep an eye out for it.
Tag: Ideas
Stay Hopeful
Happy new year, everyone! I usually list all the stuff I’m going to write over the next twelve months at this time of year, but it never seems to work out exactly as I want, so let’s just say this: I will write some stuff, I don’t know how much, but I have an idea of what it will be. The best writing always takes on a life of its own and becomes more than the sum of its parts, so stay tuned, and I’ll stay hopeful.
Current and Future Works
Things are going really well with the first draft of the fifth Pulse Hospital Radio Chronicle: ‘Richmond’s Roadshow Revelation’. I’m on the cusp of the final act now, and I’ve even come up with a minor subplot for James which will lead nicely into the full length novel I’ve got planned for the gang.
This morning I had a barrage of ideas hit me for my children’s adventure book series about a boy who stumbles upon a new dimension with a superpowered version of himself in. The possibilities are endless and I’m looking forward to delving deeper into it. The only problem I can see is names. If he comes across loads of different versions of himself, things could get seriously confusing (even more so than when I lived at home with my parents and my mum would shout upstairs to my dad “Don!” and both of us would respond. The hero of the story is currently called Malcolm, so that can be shortened to Mal, and that’s about it. Maybe I could come up with a name with more variations. That’s further down the line though. I’ve got The Badger Helper Watcher to finish first, and the Future Delusion Saga. Better crack on…
JOHN D. PAYNE IS WRITING 