I Don’t Know What Gave You That Impression…

Me: There are three ideas that came together to call this book into being —
Rick: Alcohol, wizards and explosions?
Me: (laughing) No…

This book is based around three things. The thing with the magic and the alcohol. The thing with the pirates. And this friendship.

I’ve mentioned the magic (although I haven’t explained about the alcohol). I’ve mentioned their friendship because that’s really what the book is about. But I haven’t really talked about the pirates because once I realised I was only dealing with a time period of about four hours I wasn’t sure how much of that would get to be in this story and I cut some of their introduction so they really just had a cameo in this book. But now…

To extend an analogy I started days ago — imagine the pirates are a gun, okay? And early on in the book someone threw this gun into the room and the main character pointed at it and shrieked like an overly emotional child. The conversation I cut and then added back in is him picking up the gun, loading it and twirling it about a bit. And the scene I wrote on Monday is him shooting himself in the foot with it.

But this book isn’t about weaponry *cough* pirates. So I don’t know if I should be doing that. I mean, he can always shoot himself in the foot in the next book…