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Keith Bullock

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in Birmingham, The United Kingdom

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I was the school comedian, popular with everyone except the teachers, who rightly regarded me as a subversive and rebellious splinter in the establishment's posterior. I left ignominiously and without qualifications but to my permanent gratitude and disbelief, Cadbury Bros took me on and knocked the corners off me. The firm gave me unrivalled opportunities: occasionally I made chocolate, but more importantly, I completed Silver in the Duke of Edinburgh's Award, spent my weekends mountain climbing, adventured for a month at the Outward Bound Sea School in Aberdovey, spent six months in Austria as an international volunteer and attended three months at the International People's College, Elsinore, Denmark - all at the firm's expense. At twent I was the school comedian, popular with everyone except the teachers, who rightly regarded me as a subversive and rebellious splinter in the establishment's posterior. I left ignominiously and without qualifications but to my permanent gratitude and disbelief, Cadbury Bros took me on and knocked the corners off me. The firm gave me unrivalled opportunities: occasionally I made chocolate, but more importantly, I completed Silver in the Duke of Edinburgh's Award, spent my weekends mountain climbing, adventured for a month at the Outward Bound Sea School in Aberdovey, spent six months in Austria as an international volunteer and attended three months at the International People's College, Elsinore, Denmark - all at the firm's expense. At twenty-one, I felt the urge to break out and see more of the wide world that the firm had opened up to me - unbelievably, I left with their blessing and the words "Good luck and God speed," from Sir Michael Cadbury.
I spent time in Iceland, in the fishing industry. I wandered Europe with a guitar. Eventually, I was drawn back to Denmark and worked in summer as a gardener and in winter on the production line of a biscuit factory. In what spare time I had between work and lager and folk music, I studied for three 'A' levels and took the exams as Candidate 001 at the British Council in Copenhagen. Then it was back to England and five years of university at UEA, at the end of which I married a beautiful French lady - who is still my wife - and began a career in educational management. I retired from a college of further education as Assistant Principal.
I have always written and told stories and now I have time too fully indulge! My first published novel by Austin Macauley was 'Winning Ticket', closely followed by a second: 'Beyond the Sad-faced Clown' in April 2018.
At Christmas 2019, I published: 'Twelve Christmas Crackers and a Boxing Day Treat' - a collection of short stories. Following their international success, I published a further collection of short stories: 'A Baker's Dozen', the following Christmas.
In January 2020, I successfully followed up with my first crime novel 'Circuit' and waiting in the wings now is a memoir of my wild youth at Cadbury's, entitled 'A Chocolate Soldier'.
When I'm not writing I'm embroiled in the international politics of the family - in addition to a Parisian wife, I have three bi-lingual, dual nationality children, a Bengali daughter-in-law, a German daughter-in-law and a Welsh son-in-law. There are three published authors in the family and dinner is like picnicking in the Tower of Babel. I wouldn't change a single day of it. ...more

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Keith Bullock Perhaps I should not be posting a reply because personally I don't suffer from writer's block, however, I find the question interesting. True - there …morePerhaps I should not be posting a reply because personally I don't suffer from writer's block, however, I find the question interesting. True - there are times when I cannot see in what direction a narrative is heading, or what twists and turns the story will take, but I don't associate this with the word "block" in the sense of what happens when one is entirely stuck for ideas, or mentally frozen, as can happen in the middle of a speech.
Writing a novel is a long process and long processes have many aspects that can be revisited, revised and enriched during a period when one is a little stuck for ideas. If I'm lost for an idea of what to write on the next page, I'll reread previous pages or chapters and try to improve upon them. I'll listen to my characters, put myself in their heads and ask my transposed self, what I would do next. I'll live with them and allow them to work upon my subconscious, until they finally inform me where they are heading.
Above all, I'll see the novel as a project in progress with many aspects to re-work and improve upon. As the process is therefore never entirely linear, for me, the question of writer's block never really arises.(less)

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Keith Bullock The best thing about being a writer is living in the heads of so many characters.
The novels and short stories that I have written have transported me …moreThe best thing about being a writer is living in the heads of so many characters.
The novels and short stories that I have written have transported me to a multitude of places that previously, I knew nothing about - and so vicariously, I've tramped the streets of New York and in lived in the palace of a South American dictator, I've experienced Environmental Armageddon and survived in a dystopian future, I've been trapped underground and seen Earth from Space. I have committed perfect murders and occupied a variety of virtual realities, to mention but a few of my travels.
Creative writing demands the authenticity of adequate research and therefore brings with it, its own reward. In conducting such enquiries one is inevitably enriched.
My next trip is booked already - I am my eighteen year-old grandmother, pregnant, widowed, alone and standing outside a Birmingham work-house awaiting her fate.(less)

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My... my... I'm not too good at keeping up with this Blog and I promise I'll try to do better in future!
Since I wrote last, I'm pleased to say that 'Twelve Christmas Crackers and a Boxing Day Treat' seemed to have put smiles on many faces.
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