This site is the gateway to the computer games that I am writing and have written with various collaborators.
Once upon a time, few people had PC's at home. My dearest and I used to sit together of an evening in front of our computer playing games like 'Return to Zork'.
I was inspired to write. Deluded by a virtual world that it was really me having witty conversations with unexpectedly erudite pelicans.
I believed I was quoting Thomas Pynchon's novel, “V”.
Wherein the deeply unmotivated 'Stencil' decides he has found a worthy quest for his heretofore aimless life when he reads this sentence in his father’s journal:
“Hmmm. There’s more to this ‘V’ than meets the eye”
But I got it wrong.
It said :
"There is more behind and inside V. than any of us suspected. Not who, but what: what is she.”
Because committing an immense amount of time and energy encouraged by something I misremembered somehow seems closer to the spirit of Pynchon's novel than if I'd got it right.
Away from the formality of big institutions like publishers and distributors, there is a "shrug, oh well, maybe this is for the best”-ness that directs life and decisions. Seeing another way to do things is not exactly what institutions excel at. On your own, you just have to handle it.
Or maybe I can see a bright side - No copyright issues.
It will be, I hope, a literary experience. A kind of novel with illustrations and conversations in the sci-fi, mythological thriller genre. That is just one genre, isn't it?
Click Here for a few example scribblings.
Not really.
If you are reading this, you must have stumbled in by accident, and I hope you will be tempted to stumble back and check the progress. I should soon have the first five chapters of my roman à clef available to download.
You can write to me here if you want, but I'd kind of rather you left me to get on with it, there is still an awful lot of lex and yacc to 'C' about.