Menage A Trois A La Mode- Notes on “My Withered Soul
The great thing about writing, is that I feel I can improve upon any story, everyday…The horrible thing about writing is that I can improve upon a story everyday.
I have a lazy man’s plan of attack for this book. Not surprising that it is a lazy man’s plan. What is surprising is that I have a plan of attack. Here it is.
I will write forwards and backwards without reading anything I’ve written so far. This will be interesting since I have Writer’s Alzheimers. I can’t remember my characters names or what they have done or what they have said in previous chapters. People actually talk to me about characters by name and are telling me a story about them, and I say,”Did I write that, that’s horrible!” or “That’s fucking funny. I’m fucking funny”
I surprise myself.
Here’s why I want to start the book over: I realize that my main character (whatever his name is) needs a kind of assistant. His name will be Sam and he will be the protagonists personal
Bartender. I realize the importance of this character because I recently hired a personal bartender to come to my aid. He is someone who will come to wherever I am located and with his makeshift bar, mix me a cocktail. Not just any cocktail, a strong Gibson or an Old Fashioned.
I recommend to everybody out there to hire a Bartender who can come to your location, where ever that may be and mix you cocktails.
In the book, I may have my bartender come to a bar to mix me a proper drink.
My main character is not a drunk, but if he is going to drink, it best be made proper. Sam the Bartender will also have advice, not unlike Jeeves in the Wodehouse books.
Well, it is time to get Sadie to school. Maybe I will read my book and eliminate my withered soul of the struggle to seperate the characters who exist in my world and my fictional world.
The next chapter will start like this:
“I don’t mind that my wife and girlfriend spend all their time together. I don’t think that I am jealous of them. I would just prefer it, if someone were sucking my cock”