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I had almost forgotten about it, having first written it more than ten years ago. Then, by a happy accident, I was asked by someone in the business had I a screenplay of my novel The Fabulists.

So I went about hunting for it on my computer and found that I had multiple copies - all truncated by about two thirds. Happily my friend Matthew Sweeney was staying with me (he had a reading in Dublin from his new book Black Moon), and helped me go through the boxes of archives that take up so much space in my small house, and there in all its glory was a hard copy from about 2001. It had to be typed in, but again, happily, there is now an open source media editor called Celtx, and as it is also cross platform, I downloaded a Linux copy and typed merrily away.

All of this is to say that I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the world of Tess and Mungo again - they’re the main characters. Dublin has changed so much since the novel was written that the streets, and The Winding Stair Cafe, which play a large part in the story, are almost unrecognizable. I don;t know why, but somehow this heightened my enjoyment of re-drafting the screenplay. I loved doing it.

Some of you will know that I am involved in a long-term non-fiction project at the moment. It’s a labour of love, but working with The Fabulists screenplay made me realise how much I miss creative writing. It is in a way another incentive to get down to the long haul of completing the non-fiction project.

If you haven’t read The Fabulists, and I know there are still a few of you out there, it’s available for free download under a Creative Commons licence, or to read online, at its special subsite, or if you want to pop over to The Irish Literary Revival, which I created with poet Patrick Chapman, it’s available there, too, with works from Patrick and other Irish writers. Actually, if you wish, you can also download my last book of poems fromthis site also. See links below.

The Fabulists at Philip Casey’s website

The Fabulists at Irish Literary Revival

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EXPLANATION: I installed UL on Wordpress in a folder instead of subdomain. This has fouled up my stats on philipcasey.com, so I’ve moved UL to http://ubuntu.philipcasey.com

Thank you and sorry if you were misled.

Philip

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