The Valley Of Fear - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

...I was just too lazy, the fact that I could spend so much time on writing it but never have it published, or perhaps it was the fact that although I had some good ideas I just couldn’t write them as a story. You see ideas are great, they fire the imagination, but to write them as a novel you need a plot, suspense, action, things to happen and so on, and a lot more ideas besides, and this was where I had the real problem. So it seemed a good idea ...
...I read Hamlet, I bought the original Frankenstien novel (yet to be read), the original Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde novel (which I read last year), and a Sherlock Holmes book. And how did I get on?... well I read a bit but not as much as I’d intended, in fact I stopped reading altogether not so long after, and started again in ‘99, with Terry Pratchett books (for a completely different reason), in rediscovering my passion for reading I came round to reading ...

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