Still writing furiously. I don't know if I'll have enough Christmas tales in time for a decent sized book but I'm typing with bleeding fingers here. Time is running out if I want it available for Christmas day. The eBook version is no problem, I intend to have that out ready for all those new Kindle users on Christmas morning but the print version will have to come by post.
When I get stuck I work on the dystopia. In an Email conversation recently, Angry Exile asked if this fictional world would have compulsory fun runs to keep the drones healthy.
I said no, because Health and Safety have banned running. Only properly qualified and tested runners will be allowed to go above walking pace and then only on designated and inspected running tracks within specified times.
I thought, that's pretty far out. Well into the realms of utter absurdity. Surely I can get that in the book before some Righteous idiot gets started on running? Too late on the thought crimes, the loonies already want to arrest people who shoot Xbox characters in games where the aim the game is to shoot characters who aren't real using guns that don't exist..
But running, I have to be ahead of them on that one. Must be. Surely they can't even have taken the first steps in the denormalisation process.
There is a deepening head-shaped dent in this desk.
Nothing is too insane for these people. I take some consolation in that there is only one of me and hundreds of Righteous out there. I have to imagine all the madness while they each have their own designated bit to concentrate on.
I still think they're stealing my ideas.
8 comments:
Hang on, LI, Simon Cooke is only playing the same game as you. The Extrapolation Tango. Anyway, I'd be delighted if it came true!
Thanks for the link! I did a "denormalise sport" post a while back too:)
http://theviewfromcullingworth.blogspot.com/2011/08/should-we-denormalise-sport.html
Dear Mr Leg-iron
Too many people with too little to do and too many resources which haven’t cost them anything.
It's like an immune system turning on the body it's meant to defend, bored people resorting to 'self-harming', bullying weaker people for fun and profit, compulsive obsessive behaviour, hypochondria or hypochondria by proxy - worrying excessively about someone else's health and interfering to make them 'more healthy', even if it kills them.
It is time we stopped letting them steal the product of our time so they can use it to waste even more of our time.
DP
What sort of Christmas tales would you like?
I've always said exercise was bad for you. I didn't expect anyone to take me seriously!
Zoompad - now you've got me thinking. I've never attempted to organise an anthology before. I'll look into it in the New Year.
13:21
It's like an immune system turning on the body it's meant to defend, bored people resorting to 'self-harming', bullying weaker people for fun and profit, compulsive obsessive behaviour, hypochondria or hypochondria by proxy - worrying excessively about someone else's health and interfering to make them 'more healthy', even if it kills them.
the injustice and obsessive malevolence of these self-approving bullies inevitably ends up outraging common sensibilities - and then both they and their entire network of deviant behaviour is exposed to the naked public-eye for merciless examination and stringent social scrutiny.
14:58
i don't think there's anything 'accidental' about it...such people always want it known that they are 'bad' - and their wish is usually granted...
beware of wearing one face for your victim and another for the boss.
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