Entry the First
I rule.
It's that simple.
Not only have I managed to find excuses for restarting my novel so many times that you would need to by another hand from the second hand shop to count them on your fingers, but, I may well be doing so again. However, it is not something I wish to entertain too much.
My novel? Oh yes, it's that weird one about the guy who does that thing. Beggar's Utopia is what it's called at the moment, and, well, it's a terrible title. Any ideas on that front would be immensely appreciated. But seriously, I've always had a hard time trying to explain what it's about. I've also been transforming it crazily. Anyway, I'll give it a go. There are two parts to it, the first being around a third in size of the second.
Part One - This is more of an introduction into Logan, the main character. He's an exile who, until he had a paddy and left his companions, had spent most his time not really knowing what he was doing or why. The phrase I used is chasing sunsets; the idea that once they finish a day's walking, the day's over and he's one day closer to his death, not seeing the point in fighting to protect himself but doing so anyway. Fighting from who? One will find out. Back to the point--he used to be a beggar in a city, treated like trash, and really just exiled himself. Sort of. He stole some food and went to jail but the jail dog brought the keys over to him--one will, again, find out why. So when he leaves his companions who he regarded as family, Logan goes down into the river and lets it drown him, but he wakes up in a very pretty mansion, but he thinks it's disgusting, not sure why he's there and gets drunk instead. A man comes to the door, gives him clothes and tells him to go with him. Logan kills him with a wine bottle, faints, wakes back again, sees what he has done and has another paddy. He sees a broken mirror on the floor, and a poem that he eventually understands.
--Spoilers from here on--
Someone else comes to his house, tells him to go with him, Logan does, they go the city where everyone hates him, because he is a beggar. But the guy says that it was Logan's house that he was in. Logan is horrified, yah de yah, because he disagreed with what he had done. He finds his companions who he really wanted to and apologise, but they're rich and wealthy and controlling the city. Everyone in the city is completely blasé, because they are equal completely, and can't compare (the rich people are blocked off) themselves to anyone else. Thus, they don't have emotions. The rich people are the same but try to kill Logan when he says they have gone against everything they stood for, they reveal that he has no right, because he was in fact a servant in the mansion, and killed the owner with the wine bottle (as I said). They say they will have him hung. He kills one exile, hating it, runs from the city, but is stopped by a huge mob of people with torches. They want to burn the city down. It's explained in part two why, but he decides that he has to fight them or everyone will die, because in the city, no one knows war, and he knows there's no point trying to survive any longer. He tries to divert their attention while the other guy who got him out of the city tries to get everyone to defend themselves by teaching them hatred, breaking down the blockade between the nobles. They do, but are too late. Logan dies. A dog comes along.
Part Two - Secret, but way better, like.
If you read all of that, you're weird. And I know it's stupid but I want to think it could somewhere. I'll update this with more entries about how I'm doing, as if you care.
So go ahead; reply and make me feel happy, as if someone's interested in it, that is to say.
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