My dreams for my work on the big or small screen!

It is probably every writers dream to see their work on the big screen (or even on the small screen). It is certainly one of my dreams so consider this my 'vision board', my manifesting! I honestly think both of my books and bodies of research so far lead to interesting prospects for on screen adaptions.

A Bare Chronicle of Existence would work on a number of levels. There is the straightforward approach of a pure documentary style looking into the shipwreck and it's location and then the historical look into the experience of the men from HMS India with Arnold's letters and other first person recollections adding to telling the story of the men and their time in Norway. It could make a really interesting hour long documentary. However, the letters and first person accounts could also lead to a fabulous dramatization of the three years the Englishmen spent in Jørstadmoen. There are options for love stories, there are escape attempts and the big successful escape. There are times of tension, times of fun, the drama of shipwrecks and fires and all of this is set against the back drop of war. There are so many characters and personalities and, without my book and research, none of these stories have been told before. I have sent the book of to a couple of people who might be interested and have contacts but I am a tiny, tiny fish trying to get noticed in an ocean. I will keep plugging away and giving my talks and looking for opportunities - you never know, right?

A postcard from 1916-1918 of the British Internment Camp in Jørstadmoen. near Lillehammer.

And now I also have Pearced - A trueish story. Now I am totally confident that there is a 7 or 8 part series in this research. An episode for each of the women and one or two to wrap the stories up! Time to represent Victorian women and get their stories told. Adelaide and her blind trust of her older lover that resulted in her spending time in an asylum and being married to a man who was paid to marry her. Gwendoline and her sister thinking that they had the control but in the end having to give way to the power of a very rich man. Poor Elizabeth falling in love with the wrong man, bearing his children and then dying or disappearing never to be heard from again. Maud giving up her successful stage career and her marriage for nothing but a drinking problem. Florrie being hailed as a bright star on the West End despite her illegitimacy and rough start to life but having her life end so violently. And from child actress to a Baroness, did love really bring Carrie all of the answers she was seeking? Was it love or just convenience? Then, at the end of it all, the one who outlived them - Dinah. Were the joys of her later life enough to make up for the trials of being married to, and then also father to, unfaithful, headstrong men. Each story is fascinating on its own but together they are a blockbuster! Hopefully it is not just me who sees this. I wonder how I can get someone else to share my vision?

Lady Dinah Pearce, wife of Sir William Pearce, Bart. Did she know about her husband's many dalliances?