I'm working on the chapter-by-chapter breakdowns of my novel so I can send the whole package to the publisher. You can tell this novel was written at the dead of night, with the author super charged on insomnia, religion, and popular culture as a whole:
"He’s not wrong; [name removed], aka Abaddon, wants to become a god. He’s born torn from Hell (as has Lucifer, but we’ll get to that soon…) and thrown into the body of [name removed]. Without his hell-born abilities, he’s just a man, and he’s not happy with that. But he knows of a way to become more than human, a sadistic ritual known as the Danse Macabre. The process involves murder, sex and sadism in his name, without he himself getting his hands dirty. We’re told that there’s power in sex, in sacrifice, and that if those acts are dedicated to him, he’ll be super charged and ready for the next step—suicide, and a meeting with Death himself. Charged with all this belief energy, he’ll be able to say ‘No’ to Death, and shorn of physical form and stripped of weakness and human essence by his meeting with the personification of oblivion, he can return more powerful than anyone could imagine."
Saturday, 2 July 2011
Monday, 27 June 2011
I stripped my novel clean of all quotes, all outside references. Below are the quotes that littered the chapters as I went.
I probably missed some...
“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
-- John Lennon
“Secrets are made to be found out with time.”
-- Charles Sanford
“Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend”
-- Agatha Christie
"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit."
-- Mark Twain
“The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives ye led were mine”
-- Rudyard Kipling
“Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.”
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Reach out and touch faith!"
-- Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
“Sin is whatever obscures the soul.”
-- Andre Gide
"Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle; be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray: and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into Hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen."
-- English translation of the Prayer to Saint Michael, originally by Pope Leo XIII
Night is the blotting paper for many sorrows."
-- Author Unknown
"An apology for the Devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books."
-- Samuel Butler
"All God's angels come to us disguised."
-- James Russell Lowell
"We do not remember days; we remember moments."
-- Cesare Pavese
"A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil."
-- James A. Garfield
"Just a reflection, it's just a glimpse, just a little reminder, of all the what about's, and all the might have, could have, been's. Another day, some other way, but not another reason to continue; and now you're one of us. The Wretched."
-- Nine Inch Nails – The Wretched
I probably missed some...
“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
-- John Lennon
“Secrets are made to be found out with time.”
-- Charles Sanford
“Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend”
-- Agatha Christie
"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit."
-- Mark Twain
“The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives ye led were mine”
-- Rudyard Kipling
“Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.”
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Reach out and touch faith!"
-- Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
“Sin is whatever obscures the soul.”
-- Andre Gide
"Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle; be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray: and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into Hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen."
-- English translation of the Prayer to Saint Michael, originally by Pope Leo XIII
Night is the blotting paper for many sorrows."
-- Author Unknown
"An apology for the Devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books."
-- Samuel Butler
"All God's angels come to us disguised."
-- James Russell Lowell
"We do not remember days; we remember moments."
-- Cesare Pavese
"A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil."
-- James A. Garfield
"Just a reflection, it's just a glimpse, just a little reminder, of all the what about's, and all the might have, could have, been's. Another day, some other way, but not another reason to continue; and now you're one of us. The Wretched."
-- Nine Inch Nails – The Wretched
Thursday, 23 June 2011
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
"Two things that are really useful for you to have are a short synopsis of the whole story (about a page of text) and a longer, chapter-by-chapter synopsis. Sending these with your manuscript means that editors can get an idea of what kind of book it is and where it will go before reading the manuscript."
I have no time.
I have no time.
Sunday, 19 June 2011
Sunday, 12 June 2011
How the HELL did I manage to write an additional 10k words for my novel these past few weeks?!
I guess doing bits and pieces here and there helps, it all adds up after a while, but sonofabitch! I had kind of settled at the fact that my novel was going to meander at 75k but it looks like I'm going to get close to hitting 100k by the summer-- because I'm not fucking done yet!
From that point... I don't know what. Stuart Hill has offered to edit it again, so that's great, but do I try and get it published? Or do I publish it off my own back? I'll see what he thinks.
I see all these people I know doing print on demand runs of their work, and I think that it's cheating, perhaps because a) they've not had to be rejected, or b) because I've not done it yet. It's like masturbation. It's like squeezing one off and thinking you're God even though you've achieved something that everyone else can do.
Options, options.
Fuck.
It's coming back to me, isn't it? The flow of it all?
I guess doing bits and pieces here and there helps, it all adds up after a while, but sonofabitch! I had kind of settled at the fact that my novel was going to meander at 75k but it looks like I'm going to get close to hitting 100k by the summer-- because I'm not fucking done yet!
From that point... I don't know what. Stuart Hill has offered to edit it again, so that's great, but do I try and get it published? Or do I publish it off my own back? I'll see what he thinks.
I see all these people I know doing print on demand runs of their work, and I think that it's cheating, perhaps because a) they've not had to be rejected, or b) because I've not done it yet. It's like masturbation. It's like squeezing one off and thinking you're God even though you've achieved something that everyone else can do.
Options, options.
Fuck.
It's coming back to me, isn't it? The flow of it all?
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