Writing matters

That's a slight exaggeration. Although my manuscript is closing on the 140 thousand word mark, there is an important penultimate scene still to be drafted. But I now see light at the end of the tunnel into which I stumbled in July 2016. "In Soviet Georgia, where they eat a lot of yoghurts, a lot of people live past a hundred."

I had found the American television commercial launched in 1973 by pure chance on YouTube. Then I recalled the assertion of Marcus Tullius Cicero in De Senectute... "No man is so old that he does not think himself able to live another year."

Factor in the spleen of a frustrated storyteller in his seventy-seventh year, the notion of a narrative featuring a protagonist a couple of years older than I, written in the first person and largely set in a country, Abkhazia, that few people have even heard of and that was the start of an undertaking which has simply grown and grown and in ways which will probably be deemed absurd. But my work could not possibly attract fewer Kindle buyers! 

When I read reviews Robert Harris's Munich there were complaints about his inclusion of passages with too much marginal information, a bit like Wiki entries. Frankly, I found only one. My own manuscript has dozens! I shall not, during the coming weeks of editing, cut a single one!