XBook Chapter 26 - William Sorts Out His Mind (Or, Plot Vs Story and Why Too Many Distractions Are Distracting)

Daniel's Nemesis Podcast

THIS CHAPTER IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART. XBook. A novel that was written when I was trying to work out the world, and my place in it. The form of expression was that of an alien invasion in 1918. The world has just come out of its Great War, and Ginger, a human fighter pilot, is the one man to attempt to stop this invasion. He is on the alien Mothership right now, hiding from an entire civilisation in their air ducts with one round of ammunition in his pistol. Today’s subject is William, Supreme Commander and leader of the aliens. Due to increasing pressures, he launched a massive invasion after the first, small invasion failed. He now has a pesky human scurrying around somewhere on his ship.

Surrealism, existentialism, stream of consciousness, finding meaning then deconstructing that meaning and leaving it in shattered pieces only to be later tucked under the carpet when my parents come to visit. This is the world of XBook. An anything-goes novel, in which… anything goes.

DNP: the podcast that started as me reading out a chapter of my own book and then criticising that chapter, now resembles a fucked digital ASMR podcast. I have been cast out of my own podcast in an act that proves fiction is much greater a force than criticism. Unable to record my voice, text to speech is my only substitute in this audio field. It’s a long story - you’ll have to check out the previous podcasts for a catch-up.

2:40 - William Sorts Out His Mind

31:52 - General Notes

40:14 - The Psychologist’s Chair

Please Remember: This is Fiction, Always Fiction. Logic is as Logic does.

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