Brilliant

We computer using modern writers don't actually keep the first drafts anymore. Well, we do but you gotta be really tough as a researcher to find them. But we can always leave the ideas about the work in progress on a BLOG. So, for the first time, a blog can prove to be worthwhile. I particularly like the Blogs by the important people in the publishing business. Are you with me in thinking they are trying to communicate something they can't get over in the office. Yup. But they're still too scared to communicate with real writers. So, what's the problem? All they have to do is have a chat and gently let us down. And that's where the trouble lies. Do they want to forever be blessed with the public knowledge that they are the Decca Execs to the Beatles career? So, it's better not to talk. But what if they did strike up a conversation with a writer who became as famous as Dickens or Dostoyevsky? Ha! Now that would be a feather in their pillow. Oh to be friendly with a real literary figure. Mind you, if Dickens came along now he'd be told to go away and write about the things he knew about -- set a romance story, perhaps with an evil killer, in Parliament. The main character could be a Press Association shorthand writer. "What, Charles! You mean a tale about an abandoned baby. Sorry, that's too sad. And no, if you think working in a Blacking Factory is equivalent to Dave Pelzer's awful childhood think again. Mr Copperfield indeed.