Comments by "Ray Purchase" (@raypurchase801) on "The business of writing" video.

  1. IDEA FOR A NEW BOOK, SIMON: Write a "Sharpe/ Hornblower"-type novel about a captain in the Royal Navy's East Africa Squadron, smashing the Atlantic slave trade off the coast of Africa.
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  2.  @ParaBellum2024  Simon should adopt an African name, and invent a fake history of his life. Raised in west Africa, served in the French Foreign Legion. Personal assistant to the former MP Bernie Grant during the 1980s. Maybe the novel should involve a Cornish Royal Navy sea captain and his black first lieutenant. Goddammit, the story writes itself!
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  3. Adopt a false identity as a black Marxist living in London or Bristol. Put a picture of "yourself" on the back cover. You might interest the BBC in a series.
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  4.  @carolramsey6287  I accept everything you say. A friend of mine did clay pigeon shooting at that time. Former Thames Valley cop, currently a magistrate. You're right.
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  5.  @Johnny-sj9sj  Exactly! Englishmen press ganged to serve whilst freeing black slaves.
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  6. Good (but sick) joke at the end.
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  7.  @ParaBellum2024  True.
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