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[apocalypsos]

So I went to my parents' house for dinner tonight, and my dad gave me one of his old prepaid phones, and my mom gave me her paperback copy of The DaVinci Code because I said I hadn't read it.

I just read the first page.

Okay, here's the thing. The first story I ever wrote was because I read a horrendous romance novel when I was about fifteen that made me fling the damn thing at the nearest wall and shriek, "I can write better than that!" And I couldn't at that point, but I was damn well going to try.

I think if I had read this back then, I wouldn't have become a writer.

I would have become the quarterback for the Eagles.

They wouldn't have had much of a choice but to draft me at that point, really, considering I would have thrown this book hard enough to brain Dan Brown from several states away.

Comments

[lady-shain.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, yeah. Could have used a better editor, I'm thinking...and as you go along, it gets a bit of the 'jack ryan' feel...you'll see what I mean (well, you will if you've read Clancy's stuff...)

The Jack Ryan Feeling...?

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

You mean where you fast forward through all the unnecessary military shit in the tanks in the desert to get to the exciting "OMG, the president's sleeping with his NSA advisor!" parts?

Re: The Jack Ryan Feeling...?

[lady-shain.livejournal.com]

I actually meant the 'Jack Ryan is always right, even when what he's suggesting is so unlikely as to be laughable'. Only Jack can save the world...

Re: The Jack Ryan Feeling...?

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

Ah yes. I'm familiar with that. It can also be called the "Jack Bauer Feeling."

Re: The Jack Ryan Feeling...?

[lady-shain.livejournal.com]

*nods*