Give Me a Hundred
I've been off work this week, 'work' being writing and podcasting. I've been hosting a cousin and a friend who came over to visit. We had a jolly time, but now it's back to the job in hand. The first matter on the business agenda is getting the new Hall of Mirrors episode up.
On the last Sometimes, I mentioned the possibility of doing older stories that weren't horror. People have been very encouraging about my doing so, and so I've recorded the very first story I ever wrote (excluding the things I wrote under duress in school). 'Give Me a Hundred' is that story and I hope to post it inside 24 hours. That may not happen though, as builders are tearing up our apartment tomorrow and for several days to put in a new heating system. It's tough enough recording when a bird is singing or a bus goes by, a pneumatic drill is an altogether different pain in the arse.
In other news, the novel has also been neglected, but I'm getting back into the thought process as we speak. I have a technique: I record loads of songs for the soundtrack of the non-existent movie of the film of the non-existent book, and it psyches me. I've been playing this soundtrack for the last hour and I'm ready to get back in the saddle just as soon as I get Give Me a Hundred online. What is that soundtrack? Here's some of it:
Matt Monroe - I Will Wait for You
Soy Marco - Alberto Iglesias
Killing Joke - Invocation
Second - Segunda Vez
Garbage - Crush
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
Carl Orf - O Fortuna
Marilyn Manson - If I was Your Vampire
Nine Inch Nails - The Four of Us are Dying
Leonard Cohen - A Thousand Kisses Deep
It's like a wheatgrass, Red Bull and lighter fluid cocktail for the uninspired mind because it summons the scenes that in turn summon the words that will hopefully fill the book. Aspiring writers - try it: envisage your movie; add your soundtrack; write your book.
