Chaptery
Currently Listening To:Dear Prudence (Dance Edit) by CO5
I'm currently drinking Red Bull from a glass which is not an activity I would recommend to any of you. Not only am I not a huge fan of the taste of Red Bull but the colour is (I am sorry to say) almost identical to urine. There's a reason it is sold in a blue and white opaque can. The same reason Lucozade's bottle hue is orange - by shifting the hue of the packaging slightly away from the yellow end of the spectrum Lucozade can fool people into thinking their drink is in fact orange and not piss yellow.
On a significantly nicer note I've been working on a fantasy novel. I've always wanted to write one but have never really had a story I felt justified publication. I take heart from Conrad's own writing as he is currently on chapter 7 of his brilliant Genaria saga and from having read some appallingly bad fiction in the past which did get published (I'm talking to you J. Robert King, author of the worst Magic the Gathering fiction novel; Bloodlines). Anyhow Alchevian Struggle now has so much cool backstory that its impossible to resist writing about it. In fact as I have been writing it out the plot has just become denser and thicker to the point that I am now certain it justifies novel length.
I have just finished Chapter 1 today so I'll start my plan of Chapter 2 after I've run the thing past Conrad and the other two Titans of literature - My Parents :)
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at July 29, 2003 03:31 PM