Revisiting Woosley Gumpt has been a good thing, I read it to my children last night. My youngest, who's the target age, fell asleep. My eldest loved it but found the characters a little 'babyish'. Their reactions weren't wrong. The book needs stripping back, simplfying, less twaddle.
So that is what I'm in the process of doing. I'm am the sort who uses 500 words when 5 well chosen ones will do, this is going to be tough.
As it is a book that is supposed to be read aloud, I am reading it aloud.
This is all good. Exciting for me actually because once editted, I think its a tale with legs. I enjoyed reading it.
This isn't an ego trip, I'm still rather embarassed about it all, but I have surprised myself in my faith in something that I'd written off long ago and only kept because well, its part of my history and I'm a hoarder. Today I am glad I kept it.
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