A slightly cooler Alan Patridge? Ah ha!!
Thank you @Andrew_Culture for the compliment..... your description of me is certainly more glamorous than the reality, I dabble, I've had a couple of short plays produced locally and a radio play recorded.... but not had any payment yet.......
I wrote one entitled "Radio Airport" A spoof docu-soap (long before David Walliams and Matt Lucas did "come fly with me" It got recorded by a local charity based organisation then got broadcast a few times on various local radio stations... It was great fun in the studio people kept asking me questions as though they thought I knew what I was talking about.
I've recommended it to lots of people. No-one who has tried it has ever gone back to a word processor.
Yes and no: most agents want something between five pages and three chapters, but they will immediately want to see the whole thing if they like it, so it's counter-productive to send anything until it's finished.
I might try that.
I've had two textbooks published*, but nowt else. Used to write poetry when I was younger and send it off to magazines, but nothing printed.
Seven books (all non-fiction, mostly computer stuff), a few dozen newspaper features, over a thousand magazine features & reviews, and a similar number of website news stories, reviews, features and editorials.
