I shall never understand LiveJournal...

[baratron]

Dear friends,

You make no sense! On Thursday, I posted about something very, very important to me - and received 4 comments. Yesterday, I posted about something incredibly annoying, yet trivial in the grand scheme of things - and received 7 comments.

Guys - I WROTE A BOOK! I know I've written books before - technically my MPhil thesis is one; but this is a novel, and I've wanted to Be A Writer for years. And now I am one! Maybe you think it doesn't count because I borrowed the plotline and characters from a video game. Well, lots of people borrow plotlines (a certain Terry Pratchett has been known to borrow liberally from a certain William Shakespeare), and I've taken perhaps all of 3,000 words from the game. The rest of it is mine.

Maybe you were waiting to congratulate me until I finished it completely? I dunno. I'm pretty proud to get to the end of the 50,000 words. Given that I'm feeling better and am likely to be back doing College work next week, I don't know how long the rest of it is going to take. A while. Certainly longer than another month.

...People are strange.

Comments

[nitoda]

THIS. I was guilty of commenting on the latter but not the former. Not sure how much was down to when I read them, but at least some of my reason for not posting to the first one was probably because I didn't feel I could offer you useful reading. I know nothing about the context, though, from what you later say, it might be useful having a naive reader to test drive it? I suspect though that I might find it difficult to follow. I certainly can't understand computer games. My mind tends to run on simpler plot lines these days. I notice much tv drama is written in a convoluted style that I find hard to understand and confusing. Either I'm getting old or things really were much simpler 20 years ago. Probably both. Still I could have recognised your achievement and applauded you for it. May I do so belatedly now? Well done!