Should I post the next chapter in Susan's story? It's maybe the part of the story I like the best, and I honestly want to share with you.
But ... If I decide to make the story into a book, would my posting of this chapter maybe hinder the making of my story into a book?
- Should I stop posting my "auto-biography" all together and make it into a book?
- Or should I continue posting, hoping that when/if I ever make a book out of it, I can remove all (or at least most) traces of the story form the net?
I have other problems, albeit of a more mundane sort. I miss words. No matter how good my dictionary, how diligently I search the nooks and crannies of the Interweb, some words just elude me. Or rather, I'm unsure of the connotations, the value of these words in English.
And in these #Metoo times the words they are a-changing.
- The bad man with sticky candy and maybe nothing underneath the trench-coat that our parents warned us against,
what do youwhat did your parents call him?
- And this piece of male wear. Connotations of progressive, in control but relaxed, cool.
If you are 'self publishing' I suspect you would not even have to remove the story from the blogosphere. When all is said and done it will be edited and changed before it is complete as a book.
SvarSletThat bad man we knew as 'stranger danger' despite the fact that children are more at risk from people they know.
I like that shirt, but cannot for the life of me think what that low collar style is called.
I'm not looking for the excact name of this shirt. What was the "uniform of the folk song army" in the '70 ?
SletThe internet tells me that shirt has a "band collar". I've never seen a man's shirt like that before; I feel like a hick! (a country bumpkin)
SvarSletWhen I was a kid, there was no talk of bad men in trench coats. That obviously doesn't mean there weren't any, but we never heard about them. When I had children, it was "stranger danger" as Elephant's Child has said, although we still didn't really have any here, not in the news anyway. And amongst ourselves as adults, we would call him a flasher or a pervert.
About the publishing, I don't know the rules for outside publishers, but I think EC is correct about the self-publishing. All the choices are yours to make.
The shirt is obviously a Danish thing. It was the uniform of the ins in the 70ties. If you did not wear home knit or home dyed T-shirts this was IT. It's aworkman's wear (Masons wore - still wear - it).
SletThe papers did not talk about the bad men in trench coats either. The parents warned us about strangers offering us candy, or a ride in their flashy car, and then doing bad things to us. No more informations on the bad things however much we asked. This of course made us kids panic and run (with ease) from the local drunkard, offering us candy if we bought him a beer or two. We children kept our distance from a lot of surely innocent, but down and out looking men on this account. And the real baddie is almost always an uncle or some such.
The shirt has what is called a band collar, i seem to recall seeing them long ago, but not very recently.
SvarSletWe were simply taught not to accept anything from strangers, i don't ever recall a specific name. Boogeyman was the term used for a scary monster-like person who would carry you away if you were bad, but that was different.
If you are looking for a publisher, it might be better not to put the whole story on the web, but it's up to you.
You were, just like me, warned against strangers. "Never accept anything from a stranger, never go with a stranger". Did you and your playmates call him anything specific?
SletI need not the name for this shirt, if it is not an American/English/Australian thing. I need a piece of male wear signalizing 1970ties and cool elder man. I'll just type in "Shirt" if nothing transpires ;) It's not that important, only one of those flavour-things.
Thanks for your comments.
SvarSletThe bad man: Stranger danger sounds awkward to me, not like a person at all. Could I simply go with "bad man"?
Shirt: It seems that that kind of shirts was a Danish thing. Remember we're back in the 70ties here. What would an elderly, but cool guy wear?
Publishing: Well I'm going to put up my story. I so much want to hear your reactions to the next bit.
I think I'll remove this post eventually.