It’s World Book Day.Â
And here to ‘celebrate’ that, is an extract from something I have been working on for about a year now. It’s a novel about a Multiple – a section of infantry – in Afghanistan. It’s fiction. Not real. I need to make that clear.Â
Anyway, I have a first draft off the book finished and I am starting work on a second, revised draft. It’s taking me a while as I have never written fiction, or put a book together before so I am sort of all over the place. But anyway, here is a stand alone piece that you can have a read of. And yes, I know there are a lot of abbreviations and jargon in the piece, but it’s part of a greater work and the terms are all explained elsewhere. I don’t think the language takes away from the content or the readability.
So, let me know what you think. After all, I’d kind of like all you good people to be the people who’d be buying a published novel of my work…
It had been a long couple of days for the Multiple. The final exercise had been wet and cold, with snow still on the ground that...
Continues, Read More...