I have come to the conclusion that the talking gnu character might just be a bit far-fetched. I think I’ll have to replace it with something a bit more plausible like a swimming coach that doesn’t fiddle with kids or a muslim woman doing her shopping in a mini skirt and halter top.
You know, you were right on the button about the making sense part.
Twenty, you need a lovable yet roguish goat to kick start your story
A dead goat, eh? You could be onto something.
Go the whole hog and introduce Harney as a size zero.
That’s beyond the realms of even the most fertile imaginations…
What – no!!
Start him off living, get him in to some tricky situations from which he escapes, with a roguish smile and a wahey the lads type of thing
then have him turned into a kebab at the end
damn Sid, now I don’t want to buy the book because you’ve told how it ends.
A muslim woman in a horse’s halter, maybe?
How about mondays that aren’t long and painfull.
This day is going so slow.
I don’t know which is the most difficult to do – try to concentrate and do some work or pretend that I’m working. I normally go with the latter but it ain’t easy
I know its Tuesday but same difference
Or a horse halting in a muslim woman?
Stick with the talking Gnu, but give him a Donegal accent, I know describing the Donegal accent in the written word could be a bit of a challenge..but thats chapter one taken care of..during the course of the story you could move him about a bit, say towards the end he ends up in Longford where he becomes sophisticated and developes they’r cultured accent!
Writer’s block is it. A high stool in a quiet bar and a steady 8-9 pints of Guinness will sort that.
Writer’s block is it. A high stool in a quiet bar and a steady 8-9 pints of Guinness will sort that.
Or, if you really want to delve into Fantasy Land – an Irish man with a good word for his successful neighbor!
For fuck’s sake….Bill Cullen wrote not one but TWO bukes….how hard can it be?
Check out those websites that show you how to write a novel and get it published in 25 minutes. They’re fucking brilliant those sites. I use them all the time. I wrote 3 books last Sunday morning. I’ll sell you a blockbuster plot line for two grand…
By successful neighbour do you mean ENGLAND??
Rule Britannia!
God Save our Glorious Queen!
There will always be an England!
I think your missing the opportunity with the Gnu and the goat though. Love accross the divide, and all that. Clandestine meetings behind the hayshed, always fearing discovery by the cold, unfeeling world that just don’t understand how a Donegal Gnu could ever fall for a Duleek Goat. It’s perfetct man!
Sure Jilly Coopers been getting away with that kind of shite for years.
95% of derry people have had an uncle who used to pretend to steal their nose…beat that
I can beat it! I can! 100% of my children have parents who have tried to steal their noses and then glue them on again upside down.
Just say the novel is post-apocalyptic magical realism, Twenty, and the gnu won’t seem out of place at all. In fact what kind of post-apocalyptic magical realism novel wouldn’t have a strong central gnu character? Phthoo!
persevere with the talking gnu – best book I ever read had a talking mole who went round a farmyard trying to find out who had shat on his head!
Maggot, I don’t think I’m alone when I say I have to know the title of that book.
It didn’t have Frank Dunlop in it, did it?
So – no gnus then?
Ah well, another quiet day.
Just for you problem!
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“The Story of the Little Mole who knew it was None of his Business” by Werner Holzwarth problemchildebride.
Instead of a Gnus why not have Hostages, they’r the same thing,..but bigger..
How about a multi millionaire who made his fortune from selling Bertie Ahern fridge magnets?
I know it’s a stretch but more credible than a talking gnu.
wizards are all the rage now twenty. You could have your hero with a few tricks up his sleeve.
How about a time travelling ruminant ?
Dr Gnu !
Publishers asked you to subtly remind readers your still writing the book then?
You shameless cunt.
No gnus are good gnus.