I’ve had this idea swimming in my head now for a few months and it’s been doing so long enough that I think I’m going to take a swing at it. I’ve started the outline today. I’m excited as it’s more detailed and comprehensive than the last 2. As time passes I’m under no illusions the first two were anything but starters, to see if I could, practice runs.
This one has a through-line, intense story, climax etc. It’s much more unique and expansive in scope and style than the other two. Really the other one. As, “Excuse Me, Forgive Me, Fuck You” Was the only other true story driven book. The formatting of both books are also trash. I have to work on those too. Tighten them up perhaps if only in formatting. The line spacing is too big. As well as the margins all around. But the current formats of both books are better than their original proofs. I’m glad no one’s discovered them yet. I have to pet-project them again to fix them to a respectable display. But at the moment I’m done with them.
I advertised little as my separate worlds are a bit too close together. I’d rather not have my work colleagues know my deepest darkest thoughts nor do I wish for anyone to be offended by them, or the story in “Excuse Me…” It’s not intended to offend, it’s simply what came out at the time. I was reading a lot of Bukowski at the time. In hindsight it’s a regurgitation of a Bukowski story and a poor one at that. I’m actually proud of it aside from the outrageous event I put the character in about halfway through. I cringe at it. It’s silly. It reaches a bit too far. I think I cringe because it was simply a series of serialized relationship instances, some based in truth. But perhaps I cringe because it was my first recent public foray back into my imagination, and that is what came of it. But who really knows. It’s silly.
This new one is going to be eons above anything I’ve done to date. Perhaps my first real true attempt at a true novel. It’s got a complex story line. In comparison, if you dare to, it’s just going to be much better. I don’t know what else to say. And I’m certainly not going to explain any of the story here. Except that it’s going to be better. It just will. I don’t have a name for it either.
My point is, this is what I’ll be working on for the next year or so, perhaps among a few other projects I’ve been wanting to for a while now.
Until next time.