Comments on: Joshua 2 vs Joshua 3

By: MG

MG — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:34:06 +0000

I can’t wait to see him! And…beer breath? I’d have thought the birth of baby was worth champagne! XXX to you all.

By: Raph (your nephew)

Raph (your nephew) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:45:14 +0000

pita! pita! pita! my brother is sooooooo cute! hes all pink and his skin is dry but i dont care! hes awsome!anyway, g2g, my dad is breathing beer breath down my neck and forcing my to unload the dishwasher… oh dam! he read that…

By: esruel

esruel — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:28:33 +0000

Are you really Calvino incarnate?????
I remember the blog post – I think I went off on one about Dickens not long after. (Just read a bit of Great Expectations and wowed my brain again!) I seem unable to read anything new – and my latest work is veering wildly towards Dickensian Newcastle. I’m sure Tolkien and Dickens are amazing influences, but will they help me get published? Too unthinkable!!!!
Too good for a working title – just don’t do a Bond and change it to A Moment Of Zero, or some such nonsense! lol

By: MG

MG — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:45:37 +0000

Thanks es, I can’t take credit for it though – that passage is a quotation from ‘If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler’ by Italo Calvino. I blogged about Calvino and that novel once.

So ZERO MOMENT, kinda like INVISIBLE CITY is a quote from Calvino.

Just a working title though…

By: esruel

esruel — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:09:20 +0000

Hmmm, Zero Moment – I keep getting the idea flashing in my head that the small piece you quoted is as fab a blurb as you can get for a book. A mystery to be unravelled! Should it appear on the jacket, it would draw such attention – and then you match it with the title!
Zero Moment definitely has a ring to it. Keep it. It works!

By: MG

MG — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:30:20 +0000

Oh it’s the final thing, I hope. After this it should go into a bound proof. Not changed massively since the first draft, which I finished last May.

You know what, in many ways I wrote book 2 before book 1 – because the first draft of book 1 had an older, more reflective and teenage (i.e. crazy about girls) Josh. Definitely sound editorial advice – all that mooching over girls might have been quite off-putting for younger readers!

I wrote book 2 with him as the younger 13-yr old, then went on to rewrite book 1.

By: Lukas

Lukas — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:51:56 +0000

Congrats on finishing the edit! Is that editing the rough draft…? Or the final thing?
Lukas

By: MG

MG — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:38:24 +0000

Yes, that’s why I’m spoiling it now! These posts will be so ancient by the time the book comes out that no-one will bother trawling through to find the spoilers. Plus, you’ll have forgotten what I said…

I FINISHED EDITING JOSHUA 2 TODAY!

From next week – what will I do with my afternoons?

By: Lukas

Lukas — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:24:18 +0000

Thats cruel MG :’( We have two years to wait for that book and your spoiling us already, how could you! :’(
Is that a possible Villain for Josh? :O
Sounds EXTREMELY interesting, Can’t Wait!
Lukas

By: MG

MG — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:04:51 +0000

Okay guys, thanks for your input. The official working title of Joshua 3 is now ZERO MOMENT.

Here’s where it comes from. In ZERO MOMENT Josh comes across a book…actually another copy of a book that features in INVISIBLE CITY. And scrawled in that book are some strange things including this:

“I would like to swim against the stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with it an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts bring with it consequences; so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it. . . .”

I’ve just given you so many clues…