The last day of the half-term and, for whatever reason (probably Mr Geraghty’s insistence), I
went back and finished the Ward’s 7 saga from the previous week. The spoilerific episode
title tells you exactly what’s going to happen in the story, and there isn’t much more depth to
it than that.
Once again, it’s obvious I hadn’t planned this beyond whatever sentence I was currently
writing. Four of them beam off the Mother Ship just before it explodes, then after rescuing
Aaron, Waen successfully manages to contact the ship’s computer and have it beam them
back aboard again. I obviously realised my cardinal mistake at that point and shoehorned
some stuff in at the end about Matthew being able to fix it. Hey - he is the Top Engineer on
Earth after all, so at least his character’s consistent. (Apart from that bit in Episode Three
where I got him mixed up with The Incredible Hulk, but never mind.)
I wonder if I also worked out that, without Argos, there wouldn’t be seven of them? Which is
maybe why I brought him back to life again at the end. And if so, I wish I’d also realised that
there still wouldn’t be seven of them without Simon Jackson, who fell out of a spaceship in
the first instalment and was never seen again. In fact, come to think of it, there were never
seven of them at any point during the story. ‘Ward’s 5 or 6 at the Most’ would have been a
better name.
It didn’t bother me though. It was the last day of half-term and I was due a well-deserved
week off. In the first term, I wrote nine pieces in my English book. In just the first half of the
second, I’d already written eighteen. You’d think I’d be exhausted. But I was just getting
started…
Incidental Footnotes
Two things I just noticed while writing this in 2021 (nearly 42 years later):
1.
The lettering I used for Argos’ voice is the same lettering the Daleks speak with in the old
TV Century 21 strips from the 1960s (which I was more familiar with from their reprints
in the Dalek Annual 1977)
2.
This wasn’t the first time I had ended a chapter with the words “The fight had only just
begun.” The first was in the only surviving story I wrote at infants school. And yes, I
definitely intend to upload that sooner rather than later.
Ward’s 7: Rescue
TOPIC 2
The one where it all
kicks off
TERM 2
The birth of the 1980s -
Blake’s 7, Blondie and
battles in space
Great Space Battles
Three mighty empires
take their first steps
into outer space
Ward’s 7
John Ward and his band
of rebels fight the evil
Federation
Ward’s 7: Rescue
TOPIC 1
He knows the names of
all the dinosaurs
TERM 1
A day-by-day account of
Waen’s first term at
Fairburn School
TERM 2
The birth of the 1980s -
Blake’s 7, Blondie and
battles in space
TOPIC 2
The one where it all
kicks off
FAIRBURN
The place where I wrote
all this rubbish
The Forgotten World
John and Mick fall foul
of some extreme
potholing
Bonfire Night
Waen’s first time at the
annual village fireworks
display
Great Space Battles
Three mighty empires
take their first steps
into outer space
Ward’s 7
John Ward and his band
of rebels fight the evil
Federation
The last day of the half-term and, for whatever reason
(probably Mr Geraghty’s insistence), I went back and
finished the Ward’s 7 saga from the previous week.
The spoilerific episode title tells you exactly what’s
going to happen in the story, and there isn’t much
more depth to it than that.
Once again, it’s obvious I hadn’t planned this beyond
whatever sentence I was currently writing. Four of
them beam off the Mother Ship just before it
explodes, then after rescuing Aaron, Waen
successfully manages to contact the ship’s computer
and have it beam them back aboard again. I obviously
realised my cardinal mistake at that point and
shoehorned some stuff in at the end about Matthew
being able to fix it. Hey - he is the Top Engineer on
Earth after all, so at least his character’s consistent.
(Apart from that bit in Episode Three where I got him
mixed up with The Incredible Hulk, but never mind.)
I wonder if I also worked out that, without Argos,
there wouldn’t be seven of them? Which is maybe why
I brought him back to life again at the end. And if so, I
wish I’d also realised that there still wouldn’t be seven
of them without Simon Jackson, who fell out of a
spaceship in the first instalment and was never seen
again. In fact, come to think of it, there were never
seven of them at any point during the story. ‘Ward’s 5
or 6 at the Most’ would have been a better name.
It didn’t bother me though. It was the last day of half-
term and I was due a well-deserved week off. In the
first term, I wrote nine pieces in my English book. In
just the first half of the second, I’d already written
eighteen. You’d think I’d be exhausted. But I was just
getting started…
Incidental Footnotes
Two things I just noticed while writing this in 2021
(nearly 42 years later):
1.
The lettering I used for Argos’ voice is the same
lettering the Daleks speak with in the old TV
Century 21 strips from the 1960s (which I was
more familiar with from their reprints in the Dalek
Annual 1977)
2.
This wasn’t the first time I had ended a chapter
with the words “The fight had only just begun.”
The first was in the only surviving story I wrote at
infants school. And yes, I definitely intend to
upload that sooner rather than later.
The Fugitive
A man runs - but who is
he? And what is he
running from?
The Flame in the
Desert
An evil fire threatens
the safety of the world