1. Imagine if a President of the United States starting bombing a Middle Eastern country which provided oil to the world and the sole excuse for the bombings was that we thought the leader of said country was a really bad person. Then imagine if that same President signed an extension of the Patriot Act just a few weeks ago allowing all sorts of wiretapping and so on. And imagine if that same President held people at Guantanamo Bay without trial, or indeed without charging them with a crime, with only a vague promise of a trial in a military tribunal at some point in the future. The Anti-War Left surely would protest such a President, right? Now imagine said President had campaigned on a promise not to do all those really, really mean things. I have a slogan for the Anti-War Left—Obama Lied; People Died. Catchy, huh? So, where exactly are those protesters?
2. Meanwhile Clara is planning to spend 30 hours this weekend not eating anything as part of the 30 Hour Famine (organized by World Vision). This is all part of a big fundraiser, which centers, for surely some mystical reason, on the number 30—fast for 30 hours and raise money from sponsors (using the slogan—$30 can feed a child for a month (30 days)). Emma and Lily both did this when they were younger too. It’s a nice idea. But, there is a really interesting difference between Emma, Lily and Clara in this respect—Clara hates the idea of asking people to give her money for doing this. So far, she has not asked a single person to support her—she hasn't even asked her grandparents, let alone others. Nonetheless, she will still go without food for 30 hours this weekend. She’s a good kid.
3. Speaking of Clara, while driving her to school this morning (side note—I don’t usually drive her to school; today's journey was the result of the combination of the MCAS tests and the fact that Emma likes to sleep (the fuller version is really boring, so trust me, you don’t care)), I mentioned to her the new novel I was planning to write. She told me it was really dumb. I told her that everyone would like my novel more than they liked Harry Potter. She scoffed. I told her that her friends would be impressed that her dad was a better novelist than J.K. Rowling. She said they wouldn’t know who J.K. Rowling was (apparently Clara is not terribly impressed with the literacy rate of her peers). One thing about Clara—she is never impressed with her father’s brilliant ideas.
4. And what about this novel, you ask? Well, let me tell you. At the start of the car ride I only had the title of the novel, but on the way to school I did write a sentence for the novel—since Clara wasn’t impressed with the title, I thought she would be impressed with a sentence—but, she wasn’t. The Title?
The Lone Zombie and the Quest for the Bone of Trom
Now who wouldn’t want to read that book? And consider this—The Lone Zombie is a renegade zombie, probably with superpowers (I haven’t worked that part out yet). And this book just part one of a multi-volume series (probably 7 books—just like Harry Potter)—I am not sure what future volumes will be entitled. And the sentence I carefully crafted?
“But that means I will have to go around in a circle, which will cause my heart to explode and I will die!”
I have not yet worked out how that sentence will fit into the plot because I have not yet worked out the plot.
5. The previous paragraph was written solely so that I can tell Clara tonight that I have begun work on my novel and have already published an excerpt of it.
6. The idea of the Lone Zombie was hatched in my tutorial yesterday; we were talking about zombies. I asked why there was this fascination with zombies and was told it had something to do with there being massive numbers of them. (Oh, and tearing apart flesh and so on.) So, I asked if it was possible to have a story about a single zombie; the students laughed at the very idea. So, that made me realize the Lone Zombie Idea has some serious potential.
7. Zombies came up when someone mentioned Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I haven’t read it. And I don’t intend to read it. But, I was told that it is really good. I still don’t plan to read it.
8. A Zombie music video? Easy choice.
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