Sunday, July 24, 2022

Shock, horror!

 

Apart from the Alex Cross series just about every novel by James Patterson is written with someone else. I wonder how much he actually does. Does he come up with a plot and leave the rest to the co-author? For such an incredibly popular and successful author I find this rather shocking. It's obviously not a secret and lots of people know about it - except me. Humph.

Anyway I wrote about thirteen hundred words in my novel this morning and spent the afternoon binge-watching Queer Eye and feeling sorry for myself. It's not Covid by the way. Just a common or garden cold.

Oh, and in between I played Minecraft with GrandSon2. I say,' played', but actually it was mostly me being killed by zombies and being told to stay in our safe den while GrandSon2 went off to fight and make weapons for me  - to lose when I fell in the lava pool. He was very patient.

And now Husband is making lamb curry for dinner. I shall sit and be waited upon. 

I also did my Welsh lesson. In real life if I knew someone as obsessed with parsnips as Owen undoubtedly is I would worry about him. Everything he does centres around parsnips.

And as for our Prime Minister, with a choice between a multi-millionaire businessman and a woman who is promising to send even more refugees abroad, I think there is little hope for our country becoming the safe and economically steady land it once was. Or was it ever? I don't know any more.


4 comments:

Boud said...

I thought you were about to job out your current novel to a ghost. I think you'd have to provide thumbnails of the main characters and a plot outline. Might be easier to just write it yourself after all.

Debra She Who Seeks said...

I have yet to watch the new Queer Eye series. I should get around to it soon. How many seasons does it have already? Three? Four?

Lisa said...

I did not know that about James Patterson either. It does make sense to me. One of the things I've said about his books is that they seem inconsistent to me. Diana Gabaldon books, I sometimes find tedious. They are full of words, history and customs that I inevitably have to look up to understand. They are an enjoyable way to learn about the time period they were written for. But they are consistent that way. Patterson books aren't. So maybe it is because he didn't write them.

pam nash said...

I always figured James Patterson simply lends his name to an otherwise not as well known author === for a fee of course. I'd assume he has some sort of final say - yes, a humdinger! or no this is garbage.