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April 20, 2007

End of Week One: Get Me the "Bat Cave"!

This first week with the new book has gone surprisingly well. I've finished with 6300 words, more than 1000 more than I was aiming at. And finding surprisingly little to go back and rewrite or fix up later. It's a little spooky, actually, how well it's going. This time--as in this attempt to write a book--I'm planning to disregard the little nagging voice in the back of my head, the one that's always urging me to delete huge swathes of text (indeed, even the entire volume of what I've done), and just keep forging forwards. I know this voice will start clearing its nasty little throat soon enough, but until then I plan to blast on and see how it all goes.

So far my hero Aloysius "Spider" Webb, and his offsider Charlie Stuart, guys who fix time machines, are keeping pretty busy, but they've just picked up this one machine that's on the blink, and, worryingly, might explode in a pretty serious way if they don't tread very carefully indeed. This has necessitated a call to the government Department of Time and Space (which outsources a lot of time machine repairwork to the likes of Spider and Charlie) to bring out "the Bat Cave", a mysterious device intended to greatly assist the process of investigating the potential bomb.

I'm also planning on introducing a three-legged dog named Zonk, and a guy who says he's a vampire, named Jeff, who would love to be evil, but is in fact about as evil as a boiled egg. Oh, and Spider's receptionist is a very tall female temp named Malaria (she's furious with her parents).

Yes, I'm trying to have fun with this one, something that will be a nice change of pace for me.

Posted by adrian at April 20, 2007 06:23 PM

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Reminds me of a story I was making up for my kids during a long car trip at the weekend, with a female protagonist whom I named "Chlamydia", which made The Missus spill her coffee on her jeans and shoot me the Look of Death. Kids liked it, though. ;)

Posted by: pastamasta [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 31, 2007 11:56 PM

Hey sounds like a real fun story Adrian. I can certainly understand why Malaria would be upset with her olds, but surely Aloysius has cause for complaint too!

God, the government can't run the railways (or the ferries here in Sydney for that matter), the idea of them being in charge of time and space is terrifying beyond belief!

Posted by: dshan [TypeKey Profile Page] at April 21, 2007 05:35 PM

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