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You Missed a Bit
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Cold, Wet, and Muddy's opening for voting, and the other, You Missed a Bit, is published today.
I have tried twice now to write a story I was happy with about the boy I have loved since September 1965. The first was The Walk. That, for me, failed to meet my own needs.
You Missed a Bit is a letter of love, written to and about the boy of my obsession, one he will never see though one he might recognise were he to see it. It was thus tempting to use his real name, to draw him in, assuming he searches for himself online. But the circumstances surrounding another boy in the tale, also real, made it a doubly rude thing to do.
I hope you find it worthy of your attention.]]>timmy2016-05-02T08:27:35-00:00Re: You Missed a Bit
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All followed by good examples of a proper closing chapter and an epilogue.
I'll get to the Cold, Wet, and Muddy stories sooner or later. My own, perhaps, but so little time for it.
And I don't care your word correct thinks epilogue is archaic, I will continue to use it.]]>Smokr2016-05-04T04:40:15-00:00Re: You Missed a Bit
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Your compliment, nay compliments, are lovely. Thank you. All the characters are drawn from life, edited to a greater or lesser extent, and placed back into their altered lives. I know these characters better than any others I have written.]]>timmy2016-05-04T07:48:16-00:00Re: You Missed a Bit
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As Timmy says in his epilogue, the film If ... is like a documentary, at least up to the café scene, and when I first saw the film I was very clearly reminded of life in my own boarding school. Watching the film was both fascinating and scary - and I wish we'd seen more of the delicious Bobby Phillips.
I have never agreed with those who declare schooldays to be the happiest of your life - mine weren't - but they were some of the most emotional days of my life and Timmy's fine story reminded me of countless details of those far-off days, little things that happened in the classrooms, in the changing rooms, in the surrounding countryside and in the mind. Some of those little things seemed not so little at the time.
My sexual and emotional development took place much later than Timmy's and I didn't do the raunchy things his characters do; I was self-conscious and introverted throughout my teens, just like most of the main characters in my own stories. ]]>Jolyon Lewes2016-05-04T08:25:34-00:00Re: You Missed a Bit
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Smokr and Jolyon have said everything I wanted to say, and to ramble would be self-indulgent.
So, do please read this, you will miss so much sheer delight if you don't
]]>solsticeman2016-05-05T08:21:40-00:00Re: You Missed a Bit
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Rupert Webster, who played Bobby Phillips, was much adored by the chap whose bath he ran. The making of the film was a delicious torture for the person attended by master Phillips. There were unfounded rumours that he had been slain in New York by a knife wielding assailant, fortunately untrue.
Jay in my story was far better looking in my view that Rupert, and his voice didn't grate on the ear, unlike Rupert's]]>timmy2016-05-05T13:30:09-00:00