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I am shin-deep into a new novel.  This means nothing, as yet, given that the first one I wrote isn’t yet published, and the second is sort-of-nearly-finished, but I hate it, so let’s not worry too much about it.  This one, however, could be really good.  It’s a novel that I’ve been planning/tinkering at for a while, and is the dual-stories of a Mexican Wrestler and a Serial Killer, all framed around the effect that the press has upon our – that is, ORDINARY PEOPLE’s – perceptions of the famous. I like it.  It’s full of magic and violence and comedy and horror, like all the best things in life, and it will hopefully – when finished – bridge a lovely gap between literary fiction and genre fiction in that way that people love to do at the moment.

But I’m sort of stuck, and sort of aimless, and I want to do something with the internet, more than just occasionally post images I like to tumblr and updating my twitter.   So I’m thinking of making this my main blog – I love writing in it, for some reason – and constantly providing an update of what I am doing and why.  For the first novel, and for the PhD, I wrote a Director’s Commentary, as it were, of what I was doing.  This proposed blog would be more like those little documentaries you get as DVD extras, insights into logics, characters, techniques – things you either find interesting or you don’t.  I love them.

So, this sounds like it would be fun for me, and might be interesting for you, also.  I’ve been looking for an excuse to start my blog up and running again, and I think this may be it.  Thoughts? Opinions? 

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