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Jeez! Can you believe that it has been a week, no eight days, since I last posted? So what have I been up to? Well you have every right to ask especially as it occured to me this morning that I have not as yet been at all clear what I am doing here, explained my purpose, elucidated my undertaking.

You see the Half Lived of the blog title refers to my novel. I've been at it for the past twelve months on and off and a couple of months ago I decided to give two fingers, the V's, the rods, to 9-5 and quit my job to finish writing Half Lived and it is going rather well thanks for asking.

Half Lived - Love, Language, Obsession.

Half Lived - Life is violence and violence is life…

Kenny-Sue O'Collaterol of The Manchester Evening Texan Echo writes;

Half Lived is a picaresque, hilarious, enlightening, dark, misanthropic, romanticising romp through the life and minds of its Scouse-Manc-Tex narrator, Truman; an obsessive, over-sensitive, opinionated, loquacious, loathing-never-loathsome, sharp-witted, often unwittingly witless, silver-tongued, leaden footed, multi-phobic idealist. Truman loves obsessively himself, Rose and words, though not always in that order.

For Truman life IS violence and vice versa in the same what that for Thomas a Beckett all action is suffering and suffering action. His life is a dynamic, fluid, multi-faceted, cyclical yet ever-changing state of minds.

Ultimately Truman is embarked on a transatlantic super tanker trawl of (self) discoveries in sight and sound, head and heart, words and pictures.

Or not, as the case may be.

Wise words Kenny-Sue.