Here’s a scary thought about Seven Worlds.
The second anniversary of it’s creation is almost upon us. Next Saturday, in fact. The thing is that I might not get online to write a second year anniversary post on Saturday and the Jimster will be here and I might be severely hung over from the tribute bands open air gig at Kentwell, the night before.
Two years though. Ye Gods, it feels more like forever. *ponders* Well to be frank, it almost is forever as a lot of Seven Worlds is made up of old characters and old ideas that have been floating around since I started proper writing back when I was nineteen. That was when I had the ideas for my first “juvenile” novel, The Intersection. It took me eighteen months to write that on a rattly old Amstrad PCW that eventually died before I’d finished it. Thankfully I’d been printing it out as I went and I had an electric typewriter to finish it up on.
Next came Meg and Bren’s first proper attempt at a novel – this went through two versions. The eventual novel that transpired from that is now what I feel is the prequel of their own world in Seven Worlds, World Five – No-one Butters The Toast Like You. I will probably reference things from the previous novel as I progress through World Five, as flashbacks. I played with this for most of my mid 20’s, from 1995 to about 2001 or 2.
In 2002, I began the first draft of a novel about God, which will now become World Four. I finished it in early 2004, it reached 30000 words. It was then I began writing the Darth Floyd novel, which soon metamorphosed into World One of Seven Worlds, once the whole concept came into being. World Two is probably the only novel that I hadn’t actually written anything solid for, but I have to admit that there were ideas floating around between The Intersection and the first Meg and Bren about writing a novel about a community. World Three stars Phil who has been floating around since 1999 and who appears in my TV script Agoraphobia Jungle.
So you see – it’s all been in my head for a while; it was just the act of tying some ends together that made Seven Worlds actually happen. It’s a big important thing to me in the scheme of things and this is why having children at this stage would be disastrous.
So there you have it. A history of me and my writing. Now you know!
