I just watched Choke the movie. It's been a while (at least a year) since I read the book. I had totally forgotten how random and weird worlds and characters Chuck Palahniuk creates.
And I have to stop and think why won't I create such worlds myself.
If I am ever going to make an impression on someone based on my writings, I won't be able to make it by writing ordinary stuff. Really. I need to create something that makes people go WTF when they're reading it. I need to create a text that takes people away into a scenery where people have weird histories, weird occupations, and weird friends. Make the unlikely seem likely.
Why would anyone read about a normal 23-yearold cashier when I could write about a 23-yearold cashier who is actually a university lecturer who's working a shitty job to try to find a person who buys four things that total into 16.32, because such a person is the long-waited sidekick on a trip to nothern Russia, where the university lecturer-cashier has heard an abandoned nuclear test site is, and she aims to go there to find....something I'll figure out later.
Why be normal when people get too much normal in their daily lives anyway?
I need to leave this world behind the next time I write something.
