Fatbastard: Blog

Meri Kirihimete (as some of us say in Godzone Country)
I have just got my system running again. Tarantino had it right with respecty to Microsoft. Ch 10 has been on hold with rellies visiting from Australia, system down, and preparations for our trip away to Paerengarenga (try Google Earth), a very remote location in the far North of NZ. The fishing is amazing!
No internet, but I should finish Ch 10 in time to post before the New Year.

Over the last year or so, I found I had become addicted to US Politics - who was saying what, and what a variety of commentators on the left and right thought about it. When my wife pointed out that it was occupying in excess of twelve hours a day, and (tactfully) suggested I might like to 'ease back', I found I couldn't, so went 'cold turkey'for a fortnight immediately after the first assassination attempt.
I live in Godzone, so the election result will affect me only indirectly (if at all), but I nevertheless find it depressing, so I am going 'cold turkey' again. I found myself writing something short and whimsical, probably as a distraction.
I don't know whether "A Sale of Two Titties" will be a one off, or perhaps the start of something different. I'll publish as I go, while I continue to write the 'Uncle Frank' series.

As Uncle Frank sometimes used to say, Shit happens! I still haven't found a writing/posting schedule that matches changes in my energy,ispirantion, and other committments. Anyhoo - Ch 3 will be posted on Tuesday. We are a day ahead in Godzone, so that is a day before the big day in the US. Distract yourselves!

I just posted the first chapter of Uncle Frank, Pauline, sex, and Me (well yesterday, but I've just looked at it) - Anyhoo, I let the system choose the cover. Bad idea! The 'system' picked up 'farming' in the tags and produced somehing that looked like a collaboration between Mills and Boone and the Beverly Hillbillies. I am a man, and if all else fails, I read the instructions. If even that fails, I ask for help. SOL is good like that, and I eventually fixed it.

I am about halfway through the story of my relationship with Pauline, who I got together with sexually at the start of year 11. Even though this is the fifth story I have written for SOL, I still haven't found a pattern that works for me as an author. I have tied posting chapters as I write them. That produces big gaps as other parts of my life get in the way. I have tried writing and posting to a regular schedule. That produces chapters on schedule, but I don't like the pressure to write when I don't feel inspired. So I'm going to post the story of my adventures with Pauline on schedule until I don't, and then subsequent chapters will come out as time (and inspiration) allow.
The other issue is that while each story is (at least theoretically) a 'stand alone', Auckland in the 1960s is effectively a 'separate universe'and the backstory for my adventures with Pauline has become too large and unwieldly to lay out in the story itself. If there are more stories (and I hope there will be), this problem is only going to get worse.
And so - I am going to include advice in the story description that prospective readers start with Uncle Frank, Andrea, Sex and Me, and progress through Bronwyn and Robyn to Pauline. I really appreciate comments, both negative and positive.