Good morning, whether you want it or not!
Time to make short work of today’s writing prompt – Am I seeking security or adventure? Well, way to single me out as a complete wuss but I’m sorry to admit that I’m inclined to lean towards security. I am not, at the moment at least, a particularly adventurous man. I do not do much sport aside from gym and jogging. I’m not at all competitive. I’m so economic I rarely go abroad on holiday. I don’t even go to many public events on account of being an eccentric wreck – that’s not to say I’m antisocial, far from it, but I can’t hack concerts, cinemas the like. I am about as bland as stale toast. You’ll not catch me skydiving, joining protests or robbing orphanages.
But I’m often bored as hell.
Thus, to use a ridiculously corny metaphor, I write myself adventures. I use the excitement I’ve glimpsed in fact and fiction as a kind of escape from being a wet blanket for a few moments – to make something truly thrilling, or at least a bungled attempt at such. If I can’t bring myself to do actually “exciting” things, at least by public image, I can create characters who will. It’s bloody pathetic, but I have no shame – I don’t intend to hoard all this fun to myself and don’t want to make it measly wish fulfillment. I want to be an author to bring excitement to other people like me. Bored, yet risk aversive. The quiet few.
Anyhoo, what do you make of it? I know no-one has even replied to my prompt posts yet and it might stay like that. Who cares? It’s always worth asking.
Have a good day!
Ben Easton - The Novel Hovel 
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