… is was a top record label. But that is largely irrelevant. Although it does help illustrate the basic problem I’m having with Monk Quixote. I write (or at least I think I write) better in the first person, but nearly all of the fiction I’ve ever read (and liked) has been in the third person. So, I’ve been writing in the third person. But that means I don’t get to ‘be’ me. Except in dialogue. Which means I end up writing scenes and not chapters.
Ah well. All’s well that ends in representation. Maybe. I had an idea of how I could combine the two styles today, which also (importantly for me) creates further echoes with the Hitchhiker’s Guide. I think I’m more or less done on the ideas front. 40 chapters should do it.… [smile]
Dull. But important. And seriously folks, you haven’t lived unless you’ve spent half an hour of your life wondering whether the colour of a cat’s collar is significant. Particularly when it’s hanging on a wall. The collar. Not the cat. That would be gross.
