And Andrew, my goodness…you must stop being so diffident. I think trying some playwright stuff is an excellent idea for you, I used to write monologues for actor friends of mine, just gave the things away…turns out I wasn’t any good at writing actual plays, but at monologues I was alright…and that was good information…and you should stop wondering, and start experimenting, start finding out what you like to do. Try a bunch of stuff…!

But first try another couple things like this one, which made me laugh.

I think I’d be better at writing plays or something than novels, because most of the writing is dialogue or very plain description, but haven’t the first clue how to go about doing that (I tried Big Finish’s story competition partly because it might be an in for them, as they mostly do audio drama, which would be perfect for my skillset I think, but they didn’t like the story I submitted).

Either way, it’s good to know that people liked this one, as I’m usually pretty cautious about my fiction. What’s especially pleasing is that it’s people I respect, like you or Debi or Andrew Ducker or Simon Bucher-Jones (who co-wrote The Book Of The War among other things) who’ve given me positive feedback about this. It makes it much more likely I’ll do more fiction of *some* type…

Brilliant!