The Glass Ceiling
“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.” Bill Cosby
“You've got to believe you can be a stand-up before you can be a stand-up. You have to believe you can act before you can act. You have to believe you can be an astronaut before you can be an astronaut. You've got to believe." Eddie Izzard
“Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” Douglas Adams
I’m terrified.
On the very cusp of jacking in work, becoming a stay-at-home Dad and writing full-time, I’ve realised that my magnum opus has a plot hole big enough to destabilise the space-time continuum.
I may be the greatest chump in existence.
How can I still believe that it is possible to make a living as an author? Statistically, I am more likely to be struck by lightning on the day I win the lottery.
I must be mad. Certifiable.
But it’s irresistible.
The hint, the scintilla-wisp of possibility, the world espied through a chink, the scent of fresh-cut grass teasing through the curtains – how could I not do this?
Here’s what I’ll resolve to do – run out screaming and, if I fail, run back in screaming, take a breath and run back out again. Like swimming in the cold Atlantic, at some point you either get used to it or die of hypothermia.
I am mad. Certifiable.
“But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.” R.P. McMurphy
Marvel Gumshoe is originally from Kildare in Ireland but moved to Limerick (also in Ireland ) just before the end of the millennium, to get a better view.
Marvel’s poetry has been published in several low-key journals and accidentally broadcast on local radio.
To earn his crust, Marvel works for a small children’s charity. The charity is small, not the children. Although, some of them are but that isn’t the point.
Marvel is currently working on several novel projects:
The Unbearable Shiteness of Being
The Flesh-eating Diplomat from Outer Space
and
St. Unsub and the Dragon
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