It's not quite NaNoWriMo time again, but I've felt a recent lull in my short fiction at the end of my semester break at uni. So, after mulling over a few ideas, going on holidays, mulling them over some more I came home yesterday and started writing my second novel. Well, second time writing a draft of a novel. My last one hasn't gone through the editing process yet, and I feel like I've moved quite a way from it, so I'm not turning back to it just yet, but instead spending this month going all out on something new. Utopia Ltd explores the cultural anxieties of being an identity-less subject in a hyper-commercialised world. Also it's about a cult of individualist armed robbers trying to cripple society as they know it. My aim is to write a Chuck Palahniuk style transgressive fiction novel, placing a strong importance on identity, culture and commodification, in a semi-prophetical warning to the world as it is today.

Here's an excerpt of the first chapter: Fifteen Minutes at Gunpoint

Last November I posted the whole novel on my blog for a while, but I won't be doing that this time. I might tease another chapter or two here and there, but if things go well enough, I feel like it would be something that I'd want to eventually workshop and edit and workshop and edit and submit to publication. Fingers crossed, although it's still a long way away. I'm in chapter three at the moment, hoping to get to 4,000 words by the end of the night.

I hope you guys enjoy what I've written so far, it's the most that I've been able to show you guys for a while. Hopefully I'll be able to write some poems every so often, because I've begun to really enjoy that lately.

Thanks.