Reasons

The world is weird enough and I wish people would leave things alone; they are as they are for a reason even if you cannot see what that reason is. I am writing this story just to see what happens. If I rewrite it, then it will be a different story. That is not the story I want to write. Not at the moment anyway. The writer on the radio also said, sometimes the story writes itself. I have noticed a few words that write themselves like the days of the week (thanks btw) but mostly my computer is not very good at guessing what I want to write (bedraggled cohorts of rowdy shrews drink too much sherry and burp acrimoniously) I didn’t necessarily want to write that but who was to know? Exactly, that’s what I’m talking about. Then you get a horrible green line under your words but the computer doesn’t get your style like your dad.

So

So you are Harold. Like King Harold, who is famous for losing a battle a long time ago. Most people are famous for winning something like a cup or going to the moon or these days just being really well known without doing anything - but not King Harold. He got an arrow in his eye or maybe it was his nose or throat; nobody really knows but historians speculate and say wherever he got the arrow he died so it doesn’t make any difference. They also say what is the truth, how do you explain it to someone who doesn’t know what it is? I will try and unravel this conundrum in good time, right know all I know is that I don’t know any other Harolds; it is not a very common name and that is why I like it.

I heard on the radio a writer say anyone can write; if you write a page a day for a year in a year you will have written a novel. This sounds very clever but I am not so sure. 365 pages does not equal a novel, it can’t be that easy, a novel can be less than 365 pages but perhaps that is a novella. I am giving it a go anyway, just to see what happens. The writer also said writing is rewriting. This reminded me of what a very successful actress on the television said about acting; she said it was reacting. This confuses me. If acting is reacting then what is reacting? Do you see my point? She had met the Queen but that does not mean she knows what she’s talking about, does it? Look at Prince Philip. Also, people in the streets outside say things like Thursday is the new Friday and grey is the new black. I wouldn’t be surprised if Wales turned out to be the new Patagonia and Patricia Cornell the new cannelloni.