Foreword

Well, now that I’ve invested half an hour in picking out a layout and a piece of art for this blog, all I need to do is figure out what to write on it.

Since I have completed two novels, I will refer to my work in progress as Third (ignoring all of the half-formed corpses languishing on my hard drive). I’ve reached the halfway point in Third, so I’ve got all my characters on stage and there have been lots of revelations and confrontations and other necessary developments. All I need to do now is make it interesting, and finish it.

In the beginning, it was supposed to be a gothic novel about loneliness and marriage. But then I saw Will Smith’s “I am Legend” and the first half of that film did too good a job of showing utter loneliness (the second half was stupid), so I scrapped that theme. Now it’s about the frustrated anger of a man trapped by circumstances and forced to live a life he hates, forced to wait for his “real” life to begin, resigned to a marriage of inconvenience to avoid the loneliness of his circumstances. Anger is good. Lots of conflict.

Plus, there are motorcycles, robots, and aliens.