Crazy Times (Blog 4)

Bonjour! I've delayed publishing my book, as there were a few other things, I wanted to sort out. In particular, I paid attention to the all important intro. I spent months of effort, writing my manuscript, so to have someone not even making it through the first few hundred words, wouldn't be good. Not only that, what little they will read would suck, if I got it wrong. How depressing would that be? When I release my book I'm talking of, I think I'll be giving it away, for free, and charging my latest one for £2. The latter might be sold with the message, 'if you liked my debut, you will probably like this'. My reasoning was that people would have little excuse to request a refund, if they knew what kind of stuff I write. I hope to God that no one asks for a refund for the book I'm giving away, as that would crush my self-esteem. 'Wow. It wasn't even worth nothing'. :S

Have I been doing anything else that writing? This time... Yes! Yesterday, I went to the London Comedy Writers meeting, in London Bridge. There, along with a few sketches, I heard a Viking themed sitcom being read out. A lot of work and thought was clearly put into the unpublished radio script, but let's face facts; the biggest laughs (at least from me) came from the actor's adolescent, comedy shouty voices. Often it's a good thing, just to hear someone go mental, like Rik Mayall. He would have made a great Viking. One could argue that all of the research that went into middle age Norse culture, was kind of misspent. Well, not really. But in a way. However, respect has to go out to the author, for his ability to find humour in pillaging villages, murder, blood eagles, and the like. What's more impressive, was the fact he wrote targeting the 6 PM slot. That's right, the time children would be listening.

After leaving the meeting, and on my way back home, from Waterloo station, I saw something a little unnerving; two policemen with machine guns walking in my direction. Were these people supposed to make everyone feel safe? Well, they didn't. All I was thinking was, 'wtf... Is everyone going to die?.... Because of you?' Nothing else. And what were these guns supposed to do, anyway? Shoot bombs? Extinguish explosions? I bet these guys tell themselves 'if any terrorist comes round here, trying to shoot people, we'll stop them!' Yeah, and how the HELL is a terrorist going get hold of a gun? Everyone's being monitored every second of the day!

Earlier today, I went to the dentist. Despite my extreme chocolate binges (especially over Christmas), it turns out I only need one filling. That's a relief, as all of my teeth have been painful at some time or other, in the last month, or so. After cutting down on the sugary poison, the pain has got a lot better, which is something. The micro-positivity kind of takes my mind off of how crazy things are getting, everywhere. I think (actually I'm fairly certain), I'll end it here, as I want to get down to this publishing malarkey. Do widzenia!