Posted by David N. Chorley on July 14, 1998 at 17:34:55:
In Reply to: Bob Blackett posted by Jenna Darter on July 08, 1998 at 19:15:09:
It's my fault: I was taken away with the need for S&A to have a happy ending and bemused by the fact that Jim Turner and Timothy needed a real job. It doesn't seem fair that Nancy and Peggy should be fatherless so I worked up a scenario that Captain Flint was indeed a spy and that Bob Blackett had gone "deep cover" in Russia after the Bolshevik revolution.... In this version, it is necessary that everyone think he were dead because the relevant secret service has been infiltrated by soviet sympathisers and J.T. can't trust anyone.
However by the time John Walker has growwn to be a rather large adolescent, Bob Blackett has to be pulled out by sailing a small dinghy across the Gulf of Bothnia... in my original plot I thought about having John on the Murmansk run as a very junior naval officer, fresh out of Dartmouth and wondering why he wan't posted to a destroyer... but I felt the need to bring the date forward just a little bit and move the action to the Baltic so that I could crib a bit from Racundra.
Also there is a physical property of the Baltic that I wanted to use in the plot.
I am not a writer by the way, and if I ever did write a story like that I would not presume to charge money for it, it would seem uncouth. But if it were worth publishing (and i wouldn't think it would be) I wouldn't use my name. Anyway if it were any good it could be a fund raiser for the AR society....
Idle daydreams really.
David