Wednesday, 22 April 2009
MEMOIRABELIA
"This blog is about you -sharing your past -if you want to write your memoir and benefit from encouragement and support from me and anyone on blog-then this is the place to start your career.I post bulletins of my memoir and then you just follow on........"
'Post war Brighton, 1945. Nicky Fowler is an illegitimate ‘war baby’ whose real father, a soldier, returns to Canada. His mother gives him up for adoption to an unstable woman (Dolly) and George, her weak and inadequate husband. Dolly treats Nicky as a domestic slave, and beats him with the 'retribution rod' if he slacks. When he finds out he is a bastard, Nicky becomes plagued by a sense of worthlessness.' Inthis extract I'm trying to set the scene for Nicky's environment and his major trait,from-'A Mother to Kill a Son'-.......Now its your turn.Tag your memoir exerpt to comments..........
Ross Martin,author
www.brightonboy.co.uk
http://chipmunkapublishing.co.uk/shop/
'Post war Brighton, 1945. Nicky Fowler is an illegitimate ‘war baby’ whose real father, a soldier, returns to Canada. His mother gives him up for adoption to an unstable woman (Dolly) and George, her weak and inadequate husband. Dolly treats Nicky as a domestic slave, and beats him with the 'retribution rod' if he slacks. When he finds out he is a bastard, Nicky becomes plagued by a sense of worthlessness.' Inthis extract I'm trying to set the scene for Nicky's environment and his major trait,from-'A Mother to Kill a Son'-.......Now its your turn.Tag your memoir exerpt to comments..........
Ross Martin,author
www.brightonboy.co.uk
http://chipmunkapublishing.co.uk/shop/
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