From Elgar to Vaughan Williams
This is the story of a philosophy, and a story.
My ethos was if one person in a group does well it shines well on the group, I thought may apply to Indie Writers. I was wrong, I soon learned it was each person for yourself, and if you can benefit from putting others down, do so.
When I began I was instructed I needed to get some writing on a site called Indies United, to be noticed. So, I sent the story above in for a sample of my work,
Within a day, I got an email from the subeditor telling me this needed to be done, and that needed to be done, this went on for two weeks; then I realised I was not writing my story, but a sanitised version to please the editor. This was the point when I decided to self-publish my stories.
The story, written in 2014, is about the difference The Great War meant to life. The British went to war with Elgar's march Land of Hope and Glory roaring, thinking they would win in a few months, four horrible years later, those who returned came back to a world that often couldn't cope with after the horrors of war; a time remembered by Vaughan Williams's The Lark Arising.
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