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We authors are very lucky. We not only get the chance to travel in the normal physical way (see last month’s G’day), we also get to go on idea journeys as well. I’m having lots of fun at the moment taking a trip around a particular idea. It’s to do with lies and the place they have in all of our lives whether we like it or not. Here’s a question for you. If you had the chance to always know when people were lying to you, would you take it? I’ve been asking myself that question every morning except Sundays and public holidays for the past few weeks, because that’s the predicament of the main character in Doubting Thomas, the book I’m writing at the moment. Thomas realises at the start of the story that when people lie to him, his ears go hot. He’s very excited about this at first. He looks forward enthusiastically to a successful career as a professional interrogator – a detective, perhaps, or a deputy principal. But then he starts to discover lies in places he didn’t think he’d ever find them. Told by people he didn’t think would ever lie to him. And suddenly his world gets a lot more complicated and tricky than it was before his ears went ballistic. I can’t tell you what happens next because I’m still writing and my plans for the story could change at any time and I’d hate to lie to you. Honest. I’d feel really bad. I know this for a fact because I lied to you two paragraphs ago. Did you spot it? If not, see below. I’d better go now before I tell any more porkies. Once I told 23,948 in a single G’day. Honest, it’s true. Until next time, oo-roo and happy reading (I mean that),
(Everyone knows that authors work every day including Sundays and public holidays.) 30 March 2006 Back to the top of the
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