GO BACK IN TIME with Ringo11: story of the century!!
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okay, i've been frantically writing away and i now propose a toast, for it has come so far that i have presently written the 60,000th word! i think we should have a party to celebrate. in fact, i've bought a new ring for the occasion! (acutally i bought the ring a few days ago, but it sounds better the other way ) so, 60,000 words in, and 54 chapters later and i'm still going! maybe this will come out in paperback one day and become a best seller here's to 1959 [raises glass]
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bump!! I want a autographed copy when you publish this, it's great! Just remember the little people on this board when you make it big!! soooo BUMP!
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I'll drink to that. A toast to you. If you ever do sell it, I'll buy it. Oh, and by the way: BUMP!
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60,000 words -- what a feat!! And keeping us all teetering on the edges of our respective seats, no less!! I'm definitely in favor of your seeking publication -- there's absolutely GOT to be a market for this genre of science /historical fiction. If they can pull off a TV production of the supposed last time that Paul and John saw each other in NYC, this should be a piece of cake. Now if there was just some way that we could actually shrink Paul down [a bit like the "Help" story] or somehow time warp him, so he could truly star in the story of his life.................. Keep it up, Rings -- there are too many of us drooling around the world, waiting for the next instalation!! BUMPITY BUMPBUMPBUMP
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That has got to be one of my favourite chapters! There is a real atmosphere to it - I have just read it through twice and I really feel like I was there! We had one of those grey and cold mornings here today and it teemed with rain most of the afternoon. Do you think you will try to get this published? That would be fun! I saw a copy of a documentary last week entitled "It was 20 years ago today" which looked at the year 1967 or should I say the summer of '67 in detail, all over the world and the influence that music in general and in particular of course the influence of a certain foursome. It is difficult to take in if you were not there I think (I was 2!) seeing pictures of "happenings" etc. To go back even further, authentically, through research/reading is quite a feat. It is fun to "read between the lines" too! Everybody should have a bit of fantasy in their lives! When I listen to my daughter's imagination I wonder where mine went to - life is sometimes too hectic to remember what's important. Enough babbling - I know no German, but I do know some Spanish, so, enhorabuena and bump! Julie
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unfortunatly, if you did publish it you would have to make up new names for the characters. Unless of course you're good friends with Paul, in which case he might allow you to use his name. Oh, and i love the story by the way, sounds just like some of the beatles fanatasies I create in my own head, but I don't have the patients to write them down. My brain also skips passed all the mundain stuff like getting out of bed and sleeping, yet some how you even make those parts interresting!
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Holy cowabunga. I love that chapter. It was very awesome-like.
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hoooeee! i tell you, if i didn't enjoy writing this much i'd still keep going for the kicks i get from all this great feedback! my head is like three times bigger than it was five minutes ago! which makes more room in it for fantasies of '59 lovelyrita, you have a really good point there. if it ever did make the shelves it would be sans beatles, but at that time in that place everyone was in a band so i think it would still work. i'm glad you all liked that chapter, i think it's one of my favourites too. i thought at one stage that it might be a bit boring because nothing actually happens. but who needs action when you can play around with words? the inspiration for it came from looking through the anthology book agian when i should have been working some time near the end of last year. there's a photo in there, a really little one, of someone, maybe neil espinal, going into a building on a really rainy day. it just brought back all those sensations that i get when the weather is like that. i love rain, maybe better than sun and i think it get overlooked all too often. Chica Loca, i have that documentary on video right here! i think my parents taped it in 1987. i love the bit that shows paul talking to a reporter about the drug use. i think he's just the best reasoner, everything that comes out of his mouth is just so clever and true. he's really amazing like that! the way he says that if they ask him about drugs and things he'll tell them, but it's their responsibility whether or not to tell all those kids and spread it around. just brilliant! i had my first modern art lecture of the year today and one of the things that the lecturer said (a great man, my lecturer) is that if he had the choice of when and where to live it would be in paris during the first 3 decades of the 20th century. well ironically, if i could choose i would swap with his life and be born during the war in england. when he was at university he interviewed georgie fame and the blue flames for his university magazine for example. so i would live when and where he lived, and expereince being a teenager in 50s britain. and i think imagination is one of the most important things in life. i spend a lot more time with my own mind than most people do i think, partly because i'd rather be somewhen else most of the time, but i agree that when life gets hectic it's easy to forget things like retaining that child inside and excersizing the imagination. i think paul is great at doing both those things and that's why he's such a great person. if i ever make it big (can't see it happening but i'll keep an open mind) all you boardies definitely get autographed copies! no doubt about it! i'm not one to forget where i come from you know i'm considering at least printing myself a copy so i can manually edit bits of it with a pen. and so i can read it all again for that matter. mayne i'll do that tonight...
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Ringo11 That chapter was awsome. Can I ask how old you are? I was a teenager in the sixties so I lived through all this. The Beatles were my existence back then and I would not swop living through that period for any other time in history. It was just amazing. I think to live through that time actually changes your whole life. I am still a fanatical Beatles fan but it is more than that. That period, I believe, shaped who I am. It was more than an experience, more a metamorphesus. My husband and I are, hopefully, doing the whole Beatles thing in England next year. I want to visit Abbey Road. We will spend quite a lot of time in Liverpool and one of the tours we do will be the National Trust tour of Mendips and Forthlin Road, so I will let you know all about it!!! Anyway, keep your wonderful story coming. Just maybe, we might see Paul tour Oz and New Zealand in 2006!!! Let's hope so Cheers Chrissie
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glad you liked it i'm 18 (19 in may... funny to think i was 17 when i started this!) so i haven't really lived through anything. i was 16 when the beatles suddenly jumped out at me and changed my existance. and since then i think that peroid has shaped who i am too, in a way. i can only experience it through books, videos, recordings, music and of course my imagination, but to me, there is no time like the past i'm going to do the beatle thing next year too (in the clever disguise of a university student exchange to scotland i hope ). i just pray that paul isn't here while i'm finally over there! so long as i get to see him i'm happy. i just need to know he's real i think
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oh, and by the way everyone: i printed the whole thing off just now and it's 80 pages long! i did it all in draft mode on paper that was already printed on one side. i hope to be able to get it bound somehow because 80 loose A4 pages can be a bit of a handful, and then i'll start reading. has anyone else got a hard copy of the whole thing? i was thinking too, that if it is ever finished i could actually do signed copies for anyone who wants them. i obviously can't pay for all the printing and binding myself, but i'm not exactly looking to make a profit here. but let's not talk about that now since i can't see any end in sight
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Ringo As you will discover, the Beatles and timeless and the fans ageless. As you have probably already calculated I am in my fifties. However, because of The Beatles I can communicate so well with younger people which is what I was trying to explain before. Their music and "being" breaks down any barriers which I think is just fantastic. I saw Paul in 1993 in Adelaide, but I didn't see the Beatles in 1964. I was too young according to my parents!!! Anyway, if Paul tours it will be an experience you will never forget, I can assure you of that. When are you going to the UK? We should meet up and walk over the Abbey Road crossing together!! Cheers Chrissie
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Ringo As you will discover, the Beatles are timeless and the fans ageless. As you have probably already calculated I am in my fifties. However, because of The Beatles I can communicate so well with younger people which is what I was trying to explain before. Their music and "being" breaks down any barriers which I think is just fantastic. I saw Paul in 1993 in Adelaide, but I didn't see the Beatles in 1964. I was too young according to my parents!!! Anyway, if Paul tours it will be an experience you will never forget, I can assure you of that. When are you going to the UK? We should meet up and walk over the Abbey Road crossing together!! Cheers Chrissie
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Ringo As you will discover, the Beatles are timeless and the fans ageless. As you have probably already calculated I am in my fifties. However, because of The Beatles I can communicate so well with younger people which is what I was trying to explain before. Their music and "being" breaks down any barriers which I think is just fantastic. I saw Paul in 1993 in Adelaide, but I didn't see the Beatles in 1964. I was too young according to my parents!!! Anyway, if Paul tours it will be an experience you will never forget, I can assure you of that. When are you going to the UK? We should meet up and walk over the Abbey Road crossing together!! Cheers Chrissie
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i'm 18 (19 in may... funny to think i was 17 when i started this!) so i haven't really lived through anything. Ringo - My daughter will be 19 in May, what day? I knew there was a reason I liked you!
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I'm going to England in 2006 too! Party in Beatleland! I'll be there around August, I think. I was kind of hoping Paul would be touring Europe next year so I can see him again, after his tour later this year. I saw him in Germany last year when I was studying abroad. The crossing Abbey Road thing...it's more like a run (for your life), not a walk. The cars don't even slow down. Have fun in Scotland, Ringo11!
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Ringo11:
wow! i love all this feedback! just for all that, you all get the next chapter even though i should really write a bit more before i post it. i started learning german well before i started learning beatle. my mother is dutch (born here to dutch parents) and she teaches german at a private school, so in form one when i found out my new school had a really kick arse german teacher i couldn't stay away! the first word i learnt was augenbrowen (although i probably had learnt some from mum before that). i think in total i've done 6 years of german study but this year i couldn't fit it in. i went to germany briefly in 1998 and again in 2001 on an exhange where i learnt a heck of a lot. what a great thing to do! my german teacher at high school was also dutch, and i've been well exposed to the german teaching comunity, so it's really just a happy coincidence that german is the second beatle language i hope no one gets really sore eyes on my behalf. if you intend to read the whole thing all at once PLEASE print it off! i know it takes a lot of paper but your eyes will thank you. alternatively, please take short breaks, and look out the window for a bit every ten minutes or so. i've never been to liverpool but it's nice to know that i manage to picture the lad's houses right. that's one of my biggest worries, that people who know more than me or have really experienced all this will se right through my made up stuff and patchy knowledge it's all the work of nearly 3 years obsessing and absorbing every beatle fact i can get my hands on. when i find a new beatles book i read the early bits and move on sometimes. it's my favourite beatle period. to join the fan club, all you need to do is say bump every now and again and now...
Heee....surprise...I'm dutch too...maybe we are related Leuk...kun je ook een beetje nederlands lezen???
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HoneyPie59:
Heee....surprise...I'm dutch too...maybe we are related Leuk...kun je ook een beetje nederlands lezen???
Is that something like "Look...can you read a little Dutch?" I think I can read and understand most Dutch, because I speak German fluently. But what is ook? And listening to and speaking Dutch are a little difficult for me. I did go to Amsterdam for a day once though. I had a friend from Holland; she was an exchange student. She taught me to count to five. Oh, and I like your smiley faces. Prost! I also speak a little Spanish. I like learning languages.
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yeah, languages are great. i think ook means also (like eke in middle english) but then again it could be librarian-speak i can read a little bit of dutch, but i can't say much. it's an amazingly easy language to read if you know english and german, but hearing it spoken is another matter i'm a librarian myself but i can't say i speak good ape i turn 19 on may 29 (it's crazy how much i have in common with everyone!) i think we should have a gathering in liverpool or maybe in london in 2006. we should get as many boardies as we can together and all meet up for a big old boardy-fest! wouldn't it be just awesome if we could organise it to fall on paul's 64th birthday!!!! well, i gotta get my skates on (literally, i need to use rollerblades to get from my lectures to my job at the library on time!) so i'll catch you all later. ta ra rings