Friday, November 18, 2011

FFF55. All aboard. More from my NaNo novel.

OK - you all know what's going on by now so I'm not going to explain.Here's 55 words for the G-Man's weekly challenge, that tell you a little bit more about my novel's narrator, who was sent off to boarding school at an early age.

There were a number who enrolled at the same time, all very young, and dumped on the teachers and domestic staff for a variety of reasons.  A few of the lads came from places where their parents genuinely could not look after them, but most of us shared the dubious honour of being simply unwanted.

9 comments:

Sandra Davies said...

'simply unwanted' - ouch

anthonynorth said...

So many horror stories from such schools.

MorningAJ said...

One of the twists of this novel is that the poor guy's school days really WERE the happiest of his life. Yeah - I know that sounds like I've stolen it from Harry Potter - but wait till you read the rest of the story :)

G-Man said...

So at 55 words a shot are we gonna be reading this for the next 3 years?
Just asking...:-)
Excellent 55 Morning AJ
Thanks for playing, and have a Kick Ass Week-End

izzy said...

Oooh it happened to my brother way too early! thanks.

Brian Miller said...

what a sting...i work with many of these same kids...it can be a sad life for sure...

MorningAJ said...

I'm impressed at how everyone's relating to this. (makes it promising for the book)

G-Man - if you'd like to read it in instalments it can be arranged! :)

hedgewitch said...

So many children are...this looks like an interesting novel, MAJ. Best of luck with it. Keep us posted.

snafu said...

Sounds intriguing.