Back at it.

Confession time. And I'm putting this in here where not everyone will see it, but those of you who check these things will. Now, I've written some of you into this thing and promised to kill many of you off. I've also, undoubtedly, promised a war with my choice of music. But here's the facts: I can't kill all my characters lightly. Having Junius turn into a psycho killer who mows people down might not be entirely keeping with the world that I want to write. I mean, I think it's fair to say that everyone got mowed down at the end of JWU, and there'll be some mowing down to happen here in the Towers, but I'm not sure Junius is ready to go ahead with that yet.

Do you think Junius is ready to turn into a cold killer? Jane Gannon read the pages and she seems entirely convinced that he isn't. Now I've had him kill those two in the stairwell and I'm not sure what his next move is. I just can't see him mowing down everyone on Rock's hallway and going in blazing up Rock and Berry Rich both. Can you? Maybe this is lifting the veil too much, taking the curtain aside. Or maybe it's just showing you the process of me being a writer: the fact is this: I'm getting to know Young Junius (the character) just like you guys are. I'm getting to know him by his actions. Step by step. So what's his next step? What are his next steps? I guess I'm confessing that I can't see him as The Punisher right now. He's 14. More a victim than a murderer. But we'll see how everything turns out. Today I felt like I needed to confess this. There's my confession.

I'm sure by now that you know if you're reading this I'm not a straight rugged gangster. Of course I'm not. If I was I'd never be doing a podcast. So there's an element of blow-hard-ness to the writer character I play in my casts. You who've been listening for a while know this. I suppose all I'm saying is that the element of shoot 'em all and watch 'em die part of my schpiel is a bit of an exaggeration too. Even Sigler did it: he made those characters in Nocturnal with the listener names and how many of them did he really kill? Not that many. So okay, this is real fiction, not murder wild fantasy in the streets. OK, Clarence is still a crazy, wild motherfucker. But who else is? Raise your hands.