Pulp!

About a week ago, I sat at work and decided I needed something to write about – something absurd.  I went ahead and chose Joe The Plumber.  In the same vein as my posts about Michael Phelps and Carl the Retard, I decided I would write a one or two part series of immature jabs about that flavor of the month, Joe the Plumber.  My original goal was to just make outrageous claims about Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, the man McCain dragged into the spotlight and used as a bargaining tool for votes, and have something my tens of readers could chuckle at.

That’s not how it turned out though, is it?  I ended up writing a six-part fiction piece about a completely non-existent plumber named Joe Theodore Cleveland.  In the end, the story was absurd and graphic and a bit disturbing.  In fact, the story was more like an insane tribute to violence and bad taste than a light-hearted jab at the real-life Joe the Plumber.

Let me say this before continuing.  Please go read the Joe The Plumber is an Asshole series starting with EPISODE 1.  I think you may actually find it a bit enjoyable.  It is certainly a juvenile piece with a lot of inconsistencies (read: not as well written as I wanted), but overall it is funny.  Go do that.

The reason there are inconsistencies is because by the time I got to EPISODE 2 of Joe The Plumber is an Asshole, I found myself writing about a completely fictionalized sociopath, and not the media joke that is the real Samuel J. Wurzelbacher as was my original plan.  That’s the blessing, and I guess curse, of writing.  Sometimes the writing takes control of you, rather than the way you think it should be.  So as I wrote the remaining episodes, I found that I was trying to tie up loose ends to make sure the new Joe The Plumber story would kind of make sense in the end.  And I think it did, ending in true David C. Garcia form with a load of bodily function quips and retard jokes.  Hey, what can I say?

Anyways, this weekend as I worked on EPISODES 3 and 4, I stared thinking to myself, “You know what, David, you beautiful creature you, you are actually writing pulp.”

And that was it.  I decided I actually had a nice little fictional escape I could delve into on the side.  Normally, I take off the weekend from writing THE BOOK as it puts a huge emotional strain on me.  But I still want to write.  I have Sunday evenings to work on TSAT, but there is still a lot more writing I want to do.  So at that realization, I decided that this is what I am going to do:

I am starting a new section in my blog dedicated to pulp/flash fiction.  I will work on this during the weekends and maybe during the weekdays in between book sections (i.e.: while at work and when Meggie is watching her TV shows).  My plan is to write graphic pieces of fiction, maybe detective-type stories or shambling thrillers.  I don’t know.  I wanted to finish the Joe The Plumber is an Asshole series before I dove into this, but now that that is finished, I have a new writing project I can dedicate myself to.

What do you think, dear reader?  Will you follow along?  Do you think this is a good idea?  Have you read the freakin’ Joe The Plumber is an Asshole series yet?  There are a lot of questions you need to answer.  Give me your input!  I need validation!

Either way, that is what I plan to do.  The pieces will be entered in as content of the regular blog, but I plan to start a new page on the site right next to the ABOUT, TSAT ARCHIVE and BOOK PROGRESS page links.  I’ll keep all of the links to the content archived there and in order.

One last thing:  The cool thing about this is that each story I write will be a self-contained unit, but there will be common characters who appear in different pieces.  That way, if there are unanswered questions about one person, you may be able to find out information about them in other pieces.  Pretty cool, huh?

- David C. Garcia