I get into one, and get so deep, then my imagination takes me elsewhere and I then start that one. Although, I am yet to publish or finish a book. I am a writer, I like to think I am a real writer. Paperbacks are available from Amazon and elsewhere.
Hardbacks are available via this site which I can sign and dedicate if you wish. However you answer this question, you can experience this error for real in Takes on Life – the best book I have ever written (in Lockdown) – 31 essays to make you smile and sometimes think. Or is it the cynical manoeuvrings of a manipulative and cunning writer?
Is this an honest error of an urgent slap dash/that’ll do man… We could do a poll – with your answers in the comments below. You can decide which of these scenarios is correct. And because Takes on Life is fundamentally a book on the quirks of life, it is a perfect error and maybe even a deliberate one? Too late for the people who have already bought Takes on Life (thank you) – but for the millions of people who are intending to buy it (utterly delusional)…īut I have decided to let the error remain and not because I am so SD or Twod.īut because it is an error that typifies me. Good job, Dom.Īnd I could correct the error easily enough. That’ll do.Ī 50:50 chance and I got it flat wrong, of course.
It was one of the Spider-Man films anyway. Or I could stick with my hunch instead – Far From Home. No research then on my part, just a reliance on my notoriously unreliable and fading memory.Ī better example of being SD (or Twod) I cannot think of because I could so easily have checked and avoided this error. I used this scene and line in my introduction to Takes on Life – as an insult to me (a blogger) who wants to become a proper (or real) writer.īut I attributed the scene to Spider-Man Far From Home – when in fact it was Spider-Man Homecoming. Whether it was scripted or not I don’t know, but it has all the hall marks of a Downey Jnr ad-lib just one of the many reasons RDJ is such good value and integral to this franchise and the Marvel renaissance. This line made me howl when I first heard it. Iron Man (RDJ) has invited Mr Parker (TH) to join the Avengers and he would like to make the announcement to the world’s press who have gathered. A humorous and light hearted scene to dispatch the audience home with a warm glow. It’s the concluding scene that all super-hero films have after the villain has been vanquished. I’ve been minded to address this error since it was first highlighted to me but I do so here because getting home after a gig this week, Nikki was watching the film and the very scene in question. It is SD and TWoD in the extreme and perfectly sums up my character and my life. Before the book even properly starts which is unforgivable. That said, this lofty claim is laid bare by a glaring error in my latest book, Takes on Life – which some readers have gently brought to my attention.Īn egregious error and in the introduction, no less. Because I want my books to be readable I spend uneconomic amounts of time to make them conversational and easy to read. In spite of the typos that define my work, I am pedantic about my writing and particularly so, my books. However, I am not TWOD in certain areas of my life – and particularly so, my writing. Anyone who has emailed me and might still be waiting for a reply, this blog can serve both as an explanation and an apology. But no doubt, some will be important emails that I have missed. Most of these mails should never have got through and need to be deleted. An example being my email inbox – with 5,419 emails currently waiting for my attention. Certainly, there is not much order in my life.
SLAPDASH COMIC BOOK CHARACTER MANUALS
It infers that I am inclined to just get things over and done with… so to not bother reading instruction manuals and not using things properly or to their full potential. TWD is an acronym for THAT WILL DO – to represent my Slap Dash attitude (SD) to too many things in my life. I should explain all this and I am about to. This new name for me is “TWD” – pronounced TWOD which they find hilarious but I think works less well than the moniker it has replaced which was SD. Excited of course to see my Sam but saddened to experience a once bustling airport now so deserted and desolate a metaphor for our economy and I fear the enduring impact that 2020 will have on so many people.īut let’s not dwell on this here – the Holland family is now swollen to four and quickly more normal family life resumes with Nikki and Sam having great fun conceiving a new nickname for the head of the Holland household.Įr, this is me btw, not Nikki and certainly not Tom. Waiting for him at Gatwick airport this week I felt ambivalent. Finally, an upside of Covid 19 with Sam returning home because the world famous Gleneagles resort has been shut until February 2021.
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