Vernon Gregory Little

There is a little second hand book stall on the Khao San Road which is pretty cool. So far I just got Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre.

Did you know Pierre was almost forty by the time he got VGL published?

I figure that gives me about ten years to pull something out of the hat! Sure, it would nice to be a celebrated writer by the age of thirty but as I'm 29 in three weeks time, I'm cutting it a bit fine. Plus all I have is a notebook and a head full of little snippets of something that could be good, but certainly not a full on premise for something anybody would want to read.

Sure, Pierre had plied his trade up to that point as a designer, filmmaker and cartoonist and I'm still just a bum with hardly any qualifications (hey, all I got is my charm, baby - but I got it in buckets!), but still. Pierre did spend his time travelling around too.

I guess it just shows you should live a little first, before you can put all that experience into words and construct something great.

One day, my friends, one day - I'm never giving up on this dream.