The Weapon of Young Gods is my first stab at a novel, after some desperate attempts to get into grad school in 2002, and subsequent rejection-fits of verbal vengeance in 2003. The story went through a few permutations in 2006 and 2007 before I started posting its true first draft in January 2008. It's basically an effort to write what I know, without sounding too much like I'm ripping off people like Hunter Thompson, Bret Easton Ellis, Irvine Welsh, etc etc.

The final catalyst, though, was Rian Johnson's Cali-noir film "Brick," and WOYG has thus sort of become a pretentiously muddled, sun-fried spew of juvenalia, where I go through the motions of a whodunit via the handy (and familiar!) device of teenage, and twenty-something, narcissism. There may be nothing more than a first draft- we'll see- but the real fun has been spontaneously creating a companion soundtrack CD of echo-bass-guitar ambient weirdness.

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If The Weapon of Young Gods is ever finished, it'll be yet another book that's blogged before self-release by some DIY vanity publisher (for obvious reasons, right? There's even photographic (and sometimes musical) accompaniment. Who knows why I chose to do it this way- but my three loyal readers apparently appreciate it.

Anyway, it's looking like 2010 will be the year of Many Big Things, and a WOYG self-publishing would be a nice way to top it all off.