Last night, while flicking through dozens of
channels, he came across a group of people whose business involved chopping up
cars and reassembling the pieces to create different, bespoke cars for people
wealthy enough to afford this form of customised transport. This gave Barnaby
an idea.
Book chop shop. Instead of creating entirely new books from
scratch and having to write every new word, why not chop bits from existing
books and reassemble them to create a new one? Now, before you shout 'plagiarism',
or 'copyright infringement', Barnaby wishes to make it clear that he is referring
only to his own books. He wouldn't dream of stealing from some other hard
working author.
There are a few problems, of course. Welding the parts
together to make a seamless join might be more difficult than writing the whole
thing anew. There may also be complaints from readers experiencing a constant
feeling of 'déjà vu' when reading one of these reassembled books.
On balance, therefore, Barnaby will continue to write each
new story the hard way, word by word, sentence by sentence, and would like to
assure his readers that every new story will be genuinely new.
You can find all his stories, old and new, at
www.barnaby-wilde.co.uk of course, in e-book or paperback format.
Meanwhile, it's back to the keyboard.
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