Anyone who reads this blog will know I have a little piece of my heart reserved for Louis L’Amour dime store westerns. I used to read them just for light fun. They’re great because there is no moral controversy. There’s a very clear line of wrong vs right. They’re a bit nonsensical and fantastic. They’re light and fun.
The first one I ever read, I settled in for a good long novel, and instead I got a series of short stories. I didn’t know the Bowdrie novels were only short story pieces. I was hoping for a novel about the character. Still, they were great little ditties.
So, today, having written my 600 plus words on my own novel, Murder in the Kingdom, I decided to branch over a bit into one of my pet projects. I thought it might be fun to write about politics and our world and society from the perspective of someone like Bowdrie.
I did this a long while back, and it was fun. I wish I could find that sucker. It was about the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. This one, I’ve decided to use this little Burning Man fiasco as fodder.
Apparently it rained a lot on the playa and there’s mud everywhere. Not only does it make the conditions terrible, but people are trying to leave early. They’re being asked to stop and actually people are standing in front of exiting vehicles because they’re leaving in the mud is tearing up the road way. It’s a mess.
So, why not use this as the perspective!
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