In the comfy chair

[charlie_cochrane]

Am over at elin_gregory's blog today, answering some of her not-your-run-of-the-mill questions.

Including the never before seen (and potentially traumatic) answer to "Is there one story in the Lessons canon that you would like to write but have declined to tackle?"

Comments

[rapidess.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the link ^_^

PS I´m SOOOOOO glad you have never done it

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

So am I. But I do feel like I'm writing the 'official' version at times. If that makes any sense.

[rapidess.livejournal.com]

It does^^

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

It makes total sense to me that you are writing the official version.

My heart wanted to rebel at the idea of the Somme. I had this stupid 'not them, they are special, I love them.' But of course that is the point.

I too am glad you have not written it.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

That's the point indeed. Wilfred Owen was special, as were all the other lads lost.

I still have an impassioned note my eldest gave me of all the ways the lads could avoid serving in WWI (like Room 40) but in the end, they'd have wanted to go.

*hugs*

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

And there is a painful rightness in the sense of the story as its own thing, that they went. They would have. It makes sense. I am just so glad that in books we see, they lived and found each other again.

They were all special. Yes. But for me at least, it is too big to compass. I am too small to see it all at once.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

*nods* I have to take it in bite size chunks and sort of sideways (war poetry, lives of the war poets, etc). When I go to war cemeteries I'm just blown away at the scale of it all...

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

Last year. I got a book for the Kindle called 'The First Day of the Somme.' Big mistake. Sat up all night crying.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

That's exactly the sort of book that would finish me off. I have a book of WWI pictures which I simply can't finish reading. *sobs*

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

I have the same problem with some of my characters in relation to AIDS and/or Hep C.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

*nods* It's ploughing the right course between what you think happened and what readers won't want to read.