I've just completed a 200,000-word fantasy about a butthead who posed a challenge on an obscure website called, for lack of a better term, "AW." My mc writes, "Prove I'm full of sh!t. Show me that AW is full of self-discipined writers, not a bunch of posers. Show me to be the bastard I am for assuming that we have too many of the latter.If you think I'm being a jerk here, use that energy. For all others, let's celebrate your successes."
Anyway, so this guy poses the challenge and people actually respond, and amazingly, most of them have completed something. Hell, some of them actually submitted their work, and some have even been PUBLISHED! Meanwhile, this guy is called a "butthead" innumerable times, in a multitude of ways, shapes, and forms (to wit: And, you are a butthead, sir; Neuro, you are still a butthead; I never tire of calling Neuro a butthead; And now I get to say Nuero, you're a butthead. And I think I love you; But you're OUR butthead, Neuro. . .), which tickles the daylights out of him, and which, it turns out, is the real reason he posed the question: He loves to be called "Butthead," because that's what his dear mother used to call him. . .
I've also written four other novels, one of which is in the final fine-tuning stage (QL nearly complete), two of which are approximately seventy-five percent complete; and one of which is insane and may never see the light of day. . .but it is my last novel, "Butt Seriously, Folks," that I am most proud of.
