Showing posts with label Abi Silver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abi Silver. Show all posts

Thursday, 21 June 2018

The Write Stuff with... Abi Silver

Today it's my pleasure to welcome Abi Silver to the blog for the latest stop on her The Aladdin Trial blog tour.

‘In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men’ : Cicero

#These are a few of my favourite things – part one

I am fortunate (I think) in that idea generation comes easily to me. At any one time, I have many and varied concepts for stories whizzing around my head, often at the most inopportune moments. Capturing and taming those undisciplined thoughts and marshalling them, persuading them to give an exhilarating, thrilling performance which leaps off the page; that’s the difficult bit!

The Aladdin Trial touches upon a number of current themes, all close to my heart, including (but not limited to – slap my fingers, that’s the pedantry of my legal training asserting itself) the pressures placed on hospital staff to provide an exemplary service when money is tight and targets have to be met, the difficulties faced by refugees wanting to integrate into British society and the speed at which new technology is taking over routine and skilled tasks, without regulation. Phew! When I read back through that list, it sounds like heavy fodder for your poolside read. But what I have tried to achieve, regardless of those weighty topics, is an entertaining and compelling story. In this post, I will say a few words about the first subject – aka ‘aren’t our doctors wonderful?’