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Jun 26, 2006 20:43

They say that the most difficult thing to accomplish in a novel is the first chapter. Just the right words to draw the reader in. Just the idea to set the tempo of the work.

But inspired by a recent posting by Roy, and more specifically a novel by S. Frey, I am ready to begin.

I Dumbass,
- An autobiography by the

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belle_journee June 27 2006, 01:01:49 UTC

Can I get a signed copy?

house_of_straw June 27 2006, 01:19:08 UTC

Sure

Only 249,890 words to go ;)

belle_journee June 27 2006, 01:26:11 UTC

Woo hoo! You can do it. :D

purplerifka June 27 2006, 04:19:50 UTC

i want a copy.
can i get thanks in the acknowledgements? i always wanted to be mentioned in a book intro.

house_of_straw June 27 2006, 11:08:38 UTC

Oh rifka... your in the book. I will call you Matilda to protect your identity.

udmguitarist June 27 2006, 05:20:24 UTC

The perfect title... and you're off to a flying start!

Will this include a thinly-veiled recounting of that hilarious episode where they found you nude in a shed with a goat, two chickens, a Howdy Doody puppet, two grams of coke, a gallon of Wesson Oil, and a Chinese midget in a wrestling outfit?

house_of_straw June 27 2006, 11:17:34 UTC

That chapter will be entitled 'The Other Side of The Rabbit Hole'

I had to remove the mariachi band playing in the background for fear of losing some readers in some of that episode's more surreal aspects. Although, it's important to note that this is the only addition of a Howdy Doody puppet throughout the entire novel where he isn't counselling me to 'kill em all' and thus showing my only measurable growth as a person within the text.