My Novel:

I'm about to start working on my semi autobiographical novel, which is tentatively titled ''Ripped Abs Hero'', which follows the protagonist 'Martin Allen' from the age of seven to twenty. The narrative is Martin Allen detailing his trials and tribulations: school, love, friends, sex, fights, basically all of the standout moments of his life which led upto his transformation with the help of his unnamed mentor.

Allen is a loser, an overweight, 'ugly', social misfit, with inept social skils and few friends up until he discovers a mentor who inspires him to transcend adversity, and completely turn his life around.

The novel takes place over the course of one cold december day (december 11th). Allen is thinking about his life as he wanders around a fictional Sunderland encountering an array of residents. The novel begins as Allen can't sleep at 5:30 in the morning and decides to walk 3 and a half miles wearing shorts in the biting cold to the beach, in which he runs along once he arrives there at 8am. He finds the run difficult as he has been slacking from exercise, is an occasional smoker and the cold winter air attacks his chest. He walks back soon after.

At ten am he ventures into the town centre where he wanders around and see's a girl who he tries to pick up, but fails.

At twelve o clock, in a contemplative mood, he meets a girl who he'd been speaking to on the internet, he confesses that he is a fan of Joyce and considers him the greatest writer and poet of all time, although he hasn't finished reading any of Joyces work. They discuss literature.

At two o clock he takes her back to his parents empty house and has sex with her.

At three o clock she leaves, he makes a tuna and cucumber sandwich and sits on the settee thinking.

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At eight o clock he goes to the gym with one of his best friends 'The Slasher' who picks him up.

At ten o clock, he feels tired, and considers the future and leaving his beloved hometown indefinitely and muses that when he comes back, he is transformed, and if he comes back maybes he can get his beloved Lotte to be his girlfriend after all.

That is the schema thus far,

-Michael