In 12 months time or thereabouts, we're looking at selling up and doing the "Grey Nomad" thing. What's been worrying me is what am I going to do. With my Kindle E book I have been reading many stories, many ww2 and mainly air war biographies.
What I have found however is that although there are many stories about the hero's in the sky, very little if anything is written about the life at the air bases, and those that supported the hero's.
While I was born after the war, I worked on aircraft of that era, and at the time when I was young worked with men who served in the Air force. I am vaguely thinking that maybe I could write a fiction novel, taking my aviation experiences and converting them back in time to the 1939-45's.
I see the amount of research required would be colossal, and then turning it into an interesting story word be very hard. I'm thinking that there are probably not too many of us left who have similar experiences, so when we drop off the perch, all will be gone.
My experiences are working at Hawker Siddley in NZ, working with crop dusting companies in NZ and Aust. And working in Papua New Guinea, during that time doing three crash salvages, flying them out.
Has anyone else contemplated or written E books. Or have similar experiences as myself?
gollymolly said
05:26 PM Jan 16, 2015
Go for it,a great challenge and worth the effort
Bruce and Bev said
01:57 AM Feb 16, 2015
I haven't written a book, although keep thinking about doing one (Im an ex-cop of 15 years and have a lot of interesting stories to tell). My problem is I don't know how to start it (or am I just being lazy). I don't necessarily even want to get it printed - maybe I would do it for my own benefit as I still suffer a little from PTSD from being shot and a few other nasty things that people did to others - especially little children.
But I think you should just write it for the pleasure you will get out of it and hopefully show how strong these guys were back then and their life wasn't the easy street we have now - risk and death was taken for granted then
03_Troopy said
01:02 PM Feb 16, 2015
Bruce and Bev wrote:
I haven't written a book, although keep thinking about doing one (Im an ex-cop of 15 years and have a lot of interesting stories to tell). My problem is I don't know how to start it (or am I just being lazy). I don't necessarily even want to get it printed - maybe I would do it for my own benefit as I still suffer a little from PTSD from being shot and a few other nasty things that people did to others - especially little children.
But I think you should just write it for the pleasure you will get out of it and hopefully show how strong these guys were back then and their life wasn't the easy street we have now - risk and death was taken for granted then
And you should take your own advice Bruce. Especially in these days of computers. Just start writing and if you want to add something you may have forgotten about, it's easy to just insert whatever you want in the right place. Like you said, you may not want to publish it, but you may have family that would find it very interesting to read at a later date.
Dunmowin said
06:03 PM Feb 17, 2015
iana, why does it have to be an eBook. Why not just write and see what happens. I write up a monthly blog, and also freelance write for a major caravanning magazine. The comments I receive from the recipients of my blog all say I should write a book. At the moment, I am way to busy travelling and writing, but one day, when I settle down (again), at least I have all my blogs to write from. Just go for it
By the way, one of my fellow writers has recently written a book for Kindle on travel photography. I don't know what is involved in publishing through this media.
iana said
12:45 AM Feb 18, 2015
Apparently an E book is very easy to publish just send the electronic copy in the correct format to Amazon and if the book sells you reap the royalty. What I have read so far about this is that its much easier to write a biography than it is to write fiction. That is providing you have kept diaries, have records, blogs, police records (Bruce & Bev), that you can refer to. People and families exist, situations are real etc.
But with fiction one has to invent the characters, their families and lives. All the situations have to be invented, or modified from memory. I see much work in this.
My wife says I should write a biography, but I kept no records, have forgotten the names and so can't do it.
It was mainly an idea that would keep me occupied during our proposed journeys, and maybe provide a little income as well.
The idea is fading, as, apart from all the work involved, I've hit a stumbling block with the theme, in as much I have no experience with liquid cooled aero engines, and that was what we used mainly during the early part of the war.
In 12 months time or thereabouts, we're looking at selling up and doing the "Grey Nomad" thing. What's been worrying me is what am I going to do. With my Kindle E book I have been reading many stories, many ww2 and mainly air war biographies.
What I have found however is that although there are many stories about the hero's in the sky, very little if anything is written about the life at the air bases, and those that supported the hero's.
While I was born after the war, I worked on aircraft of that era, and at the time when I was young worked with men who served in the Air force. I am vaguely thinking that maybe I could write a fiction novel, taking my aviation experiences and converting them back in time to the 1939-45's.
I see the amount of research required would be colossal, and then turning it into an interesting story word be very hard. I'm thinking that there are probably not too many of us left who have similar experiences, so when we drop off the perch, all will be gone.
My experiences are working at Hawker Siddley in NZ, working with crop dusting companies in NZ and Aust. And working in Papua New Guinea, during that time doing three crash salvages, flying them out.
Has anyone else contemplated or written E books. Or have similar experiences as myself?
But I think you should just write it for the pleasure you will get out of it and hopefully show how strong these guys were back then and their life wasn't the easy street we have now - risk and death was taken for granted then
And you should take your own advice Bruce. Especially in these days of computers. Just start writing and if you want to add something you may have forgotten about, it's easy to just insert whatever you want in the right place. Like you said, you may not want to publish it, but you may have family that would find it very interesting to read at a later date.
iana, why does it have to be an eBook. Why not just write and see what happens. I write up a monthly blog, and also freelance write for a major caravanning magazine. The comments I receive from the recipients of my blog all say I should write a book. At the moment, I am way to busy travelling and writing, but one day, when I settle down (again), at least I have all my blogs to write from. Just go for it
By the way, one of my fellow writers has recently written a book for Kindle on travel photography. I don't know what is involved in publishing through this media.
But with fiction one has to invent the characters, their families and lives. All the situations have to be invented, or modified from memory. I see much work in this.
My wife says I should write a biography, but I kept no records, have forgotten the names and so can't do it.
It was mainly an idea that would keep me occupied during our proposed journeys, and maybe provide a little income as well.
The idea is fading, as, apart from all the work involved, I've hit a stumbling block with the theme, in as much I have no experience with liquid cooled aero engines, and that was what we used mainly during the early part of the war.