If you were going to write a book...

I have been told that I should write an autobiography when I tell my tales of adventures, travels and events in my life. If I did it would be called Waiting for whales. Mainly because when I was living in the outer Hebrides whenever a whale was spotted I was always just too late arriving to see it.
My first husband has recently published a couple of semi autobiographies about his life in the education system, his life and his travels. Much to my horror they include an extraordinary chapter describing in detail our marriage and life together much of which is half remembered bitterness. I only got to know of this when my elder daughter told me about it and I read the offending material. This highly personal information caused a great deal of distress for both my daughters and myself.

Oh, I'd read that.

I wrote a blog when I had breast cancer. I often thought I should have persisted and tried to get it published. It had quite a lot of followers.

I have tried to write fiction, started 3 different novels. Named Crap 1,2 & 3, they were so bad.

... I fogot the third young woman involved in the original love triangle.

An Ian McEwan inspired novel about young, naive love, an unplanned pregnancy and child, a shotgun marriage, divorce, class and religion ... written from the perspective of the people involved fifty years later.

I guess that NotSpaghetti won’t be buying my book then . Actually one of my lost ones has a very exciting story but it would be outing if I mentioned any of it, so you’ll have to wait for the book.

Bbevan that sounds like my sort of book ? would you like a proof-reader?

I’m not imaginative either, but I did write a blog when we travelled by boat in the States. I’m thinking about putting it in book form for our grandchildren to read in years to come.

I have always known that I do not have a book in me, not, if you are talking novels or anything like that. I have written a couple of articles for learned journals and research reports, but, as far as fiction goes, I am entirely without imagination.

I would write a Murder mystery, set in a small market town, with a woman found dead on a path frequented by dog walkers and cyclists.

Similar to where I live. (Not that this scenario has occurred here, just my plot outline).

Also know the sinister music that will accompany the discovery of the body when the rights to my best selling book have been bought by the BBC/ITV.

Just need to progress to page 2.

I can quite see your book gracing country house coffee tables.
I'm quite intrigued by them now.

What a good idea, I like that title very much! No, they don’t smell, they are like mini pumpkins , quite hard to the touch.

You could call your book 'The gourd, the bad, and the ugly'.
Do they smell?

No, they are purely ornamental MissAdventure, they were very popular as Autumn house decorations in the past, but have faded from popularity. I like them because they are all different, so varied in colour, shape and form, and they look stunning in a group in a bowl in the house in the Autumn, they last a good few weeks. I think they deserve a Renaissance, although I can see Jaxjacky doesn’t agree!

I think there's a squid or two hiding amongst those gourds.

Casdon, Apologies, but I really don’t like them. I think they remind me of storybook witches faces and I never know what they’re for. Perhaps if I read your book I’d learn!
I’d write a love story/village relationships tale, centred around allotments, sex amongst the sweet corn anyone? it’s been rumbling around in my head for a while, (perhaps gourds could feature ?).

I have nearly finished mine. Romance set in the 1960s

Are they all edible, Casdon?

I'd write a Ruth Rendell type book, I think.

Here’s some MissAdventure, you’d be my target audience if you’ve never seen them before.

I don't believe I've ever seen an ornamental gourd.
Have I led a sheltered life?

Casdon I agree! I would buy that book.

1001 Ornamental Gourds. I don’t know why, but they just fascinate me, and I think the world needs to see more of them.

I would not write something based on real life that involved research - as the real story is never as exciting as a novel and I'd find it hard to warp a true story to make it fit.

Lives of some of the soldiers lost in The Great War. I have done a lot of research into my own family, some very sad stories.