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Got carried away yesterday. The new protagonist (or rather I should say, the narrator, he’s not REALLY the protag) name of “Harry” – not very original, I know, but the relevance will eventually one day be clear – was developing nicely on the page. I haven’t worked out what kind of person he is yet, but as it’s a first person novel (sorry to those people who refuse to ever read a first person) he’s not exactly going to confess his deepest sins to me on the first chapter or so…

Anyway – he’s chatting away nicely, he’s a little bit camp—and it’s 1921 so he can get away with it—and gossipy, and he’s talking about his Head Boy and how he had a big crush on him, and that’s why he doesn’t like the current HB and today I realise that I’m a doofus and this story is about men of university age and NOT of sixth form age. I’m a moron. *kick kick kick self * so I’m going either to have to scrap all of what I’ve done, or make it “when we were both at school” backstory or something – or rewrite it to mean someone in their college. Not having been in a position to go to Uni, I don’t know if there is an equivalent of a HB at university. Grump grump. I suppose this means research.

All I will say is that 1921 is very deliberate and that a law was passed in 1921 that sets the plot off. Yes, I know that’s no help at all. Sorry.