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The Literary Big Bang

“How would my life be different if X had happened instead of Y?” Is a question that almost everyone has asked themselves. Unless you’re one of those “never look back, never regret” type of psychos, of course. But I’m definitely not one of those. No, I’m more the “let’s lay awake at night and second guess every decision I’ve ever made” type, which is normally not good. But now my over active extrapolation centres would drive me to create rather than destroy. Like getting Sandman to make a giant sand castles in an attempt to alleviate the affordable housing cris, rather than trying to kill Spider-Man. The initial idea of a man looking at himself through a wormhole soon manifested as two divergent timelines, split by a seemingly trivial event at the end of the protagonist's school days. Ironically, although the majority of the timeline events for our main character would be based around happenings from my own life, the divergent event would be a completely fictional one, centred arou...

For Everything, There Is A First Time

"You should write a book!" If I had a quid for every time someone had said that to me, I would...well, okay in truth I'd have about a fiver. But it was enough times to make me think "yeah, why don't I?" On the surface, my over active imagination and love of wordy words would seem to be conducive with writing, but I lacked an important facet - an idea. I thought I had one in 2003, when a simple game of Madlibs at work began to propagate an idea of a fantasy universe based around a character called Vernon Wanglefletcher. However, this too petered out within fifty pages, the initial excitement drowned in a paddling pool of self-loathing. Becoming an author would be filed on the "Things Too Big To Conceive Of Doing" shelf, along with "Becoming An Astronaut" and "Superheroism For Dummies". That is until late 2018, when a bored look around the filing cabinets at work fired my imagination. Each drawer had a tag on the front detailing t...