Stuart's Daily Word Spot: Insouciance

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Insouciance: noun - lack of concern, carefreeness.

'Gerald sauntered along the coast with an air of insouciance that spoke volumes for his ability to bury even the most pressing of problems beneath a cloak of indifference to his real circumstances. That he was in debt to the tune of several thousand pound, his wife had left him for a more reliable and more attractive man, and his shoes were letting in the sea water, seemed of little or no consequence to him.'

1577 - Sir Francis Drake sailed from England to circumnavigate the world

1843 - "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens  was first published, selling 6,000 copies.

And the Edit Continues

Image via WikipediaAfter a couple of days out, visiting the seaside town on Broadstairs ( the town where Charles Dickens wrote) on the Kent coast to accompany my daughter on an interview for a place at the University of Canterbury and Christchurch, I return to the job in hand. On Thursdays, I usually devote some time to preparing and scheduling the posts for the coming week's Stuart's Daily Word Spot posts. As I was too tired, following a 600 mile round trip (no fun on Britain's motorways), I left that until today. So, those are now prepared. But I managed to do some editing yesterday and I'm now ready to start on chapter 30, page 281. Still going well, and still finding few errors or necessary changes. Though, having watched those wonderful documentaries on BBC 1 - Human Planet (if you haven't seen these, you're missing a real treat) I thought I might introduce just a touch here and there into the landscape of my novel, showing the way people do sometimes live in extreme climates or locations. I'll have to see if I can introduce these as very short passages when the main characters come into contact either with living societies I've already invented or on passing the sites of such societies that no longer exist in my invented world.