In response to my real writer friend Eric Gauthier’s comments, I thought I would update you on how much have I written on my novel.

Answer: NADA!!!

Sigh. Things have been really complicated this week due to events at work. You may all take heart in the fact that I am writing. Unfortunately, its in terms of technical specs.

I hope to have more news for you about things soon, but for now … pray for me, my dear readers

Eric did ask though what did I have in mind for my novel. I actually have three ideas that I want to write up as a novel. I have described them all at some point on this blog, but I will reiterate them here.

One story idea I currently call “The Americaneer”. Its actually a premise my friend Adam came up with, but we fleshed it out together. It’s about a journalist as she interviews the title character, the world’s first and only super-hero who is currently indefinitely on death row, awaiting the day when the government can kill him for a horrible crime against humanity. Through their conversations we learn of his history starting from the Depression era all the way to the present, while at the same time her research unveils a larger secret.

The Americaneer’s tale would be both about super-hero comics and America. Going through the different eras would be fun, and the whole premise has that story machine feel that would allow it to easily come up with something to write up. I even have a deep, meaningful plot twist towards the end … though I am hesitant to make it an ending. Plus I worry all I would be doing is regurgitating other great comic works like The Watchmen, Powers, and the way Jenny Spark’s backstory was presented in Warren Ellis’s Stormwatch run.

The second possible novel is Wormwood. I am hard to this story in some way, the seeds of which go back several years. It fuses my love of spaghetti westerns, bruce lee, and zombie movies. It’s all outlined. So what’s stopping me?

Well a part of me would feel like I am cheating. There is 40 pages of the story, albeit in screen play format, so it would be well into the story.

But then again, this first week has been lost, so it all balances it out.

Finally, the last candidate for novelization is The Prince, my ode to the Master and Commander series. Set in the Napoleonic Wars, it follows a young midshipman who suddenly finds himself in command of a vessel with passengers carrying information valuable to the war effort. Plot is clear in my head, as well as the Dramatis Personae. The big roadblock here is the need of some technical knowledge for the setting. Still, I think I did a good job with Here there be Dragons, maybe I could do it again.

But in any case, for the next three days, only words from my fingertips will be the dry technical details of a new web portal.