I really enjoyed writing that last night, but as usual I was drunk and stupid.

What is Swipe about?

Lest I forget, my dear filmlab, the spine, (o far n distant spine!) of the novel is about a comic-book artist who was broke, and then he wasn't, and then he kept buying stuff and then finally lost his mind to the world. There's gadgets, cars, toys, clothes, and more. Just what can't you buy with infinite credit that lets you spin out debt into your next 4 generations?

There's also comics, modern art, space tourism, the entire fucking history of white-collar theft, a romance (nay, several), dealings with the Singapore Indian Mafia, and the rich vs poor, the state vs Ike Lew, the old people vs young, and just a smidgen of the big old familiar crate o' sadness, on which we all stand when our dreams don't come true.



Here's another bit from the book.


"Isaac Lew sat in the bubbled viewport (being merely present in the immediate vicinity of the port would qualify you as sitting), and regarded his dinner with disdain.

The majestic beauty of Earth 100 miles above terra firma rolled before his eyes, but he could still barely believe he was actually in space. And nearer to him than Earth, what they had chosen to serve him for dinner.

Specially created by Nissin for astronauts by the original Japanese inventor of instant noodles himself was a cup of instant noodles, with a special lid to prevent the soup and noodley contents from orbiting the interior of the space station. Ike wondered how he had escaped a life of abject artistically-enforced poverty into a life of consummate luxury and endowment, culminating in his becoming Singapore’s first space tourist to blast off Kusu island, only to end up eating instant noodles all fucking over again as if he still had nothing to his name.

Fate knows what irony is. Ike Lew had to go to space in order to come back down to Earth."


Movie pitch: It's Fight Club meets Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain.

Except that I can't write French so will need subtitles for the subtitles.

Inspiring myself!

In other news, I think I'll only get the Epiphany when I get a pay rise in June.

I'm really going to hit the book hard now because during lunch with my colleague yesterday, he said he was going to finish his second book before he looks for a publisher.

And I haven't even finished my first yet!