Sean_Cameron
Apologies for any notifications on Smile for the Coup D’etat - I’m re-uploading after taking it offline for a while.
I have also started something new, 2047: City Drift. It’s quite different to Smile.
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llolitalo
I love Smile for the Coup De' etat and I was wondering whether you agree on Joseph's ideology because he seems to be portrayed as the antagonist. To me, at least.
Sean_Cameron
@-shouganee I agree with him up to a point, although obviously he arrives at some extreme conclusions! Consumers do benefit pretty directly from atrocities that we would never think of committing ourselves, and the extent to which we feel guilty about this is very limited. Not sure about Joseph's logic that you should therefore be prepared to commit similar atrocities if you can't bring yourself to give up life's consumer luxuries, so that you face up to your own moral culpability. But then people do always say – with such conviction – that if you're not prepared to slaughter an animal yourself, then you shouldn't eat meat. It's a very common ethical argument - but, as I say, Joseph takes it to another level.
Sean_Cameron
FINISHED! Smile for the Coup D'état is now complete. The final chapter, 'Endless Changeless Time', has just been posted.
Now for the big edit...
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Man, writing's f***ing hard sometimes.
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I've just posted 'Slender Veins', the start of the climactic (although not final) scene of Smile for the Coup D'etat :-o
Have also updated my Universal Drift book with some short stories and writing fragments :)
Sean_Cameron
Revised blurb for Smile for the Coup D'état. Writing these things is a bitch – harder, really, than writing the chapters.
Does this give a fair idea of the book? Any thoughts or comments welcome:
A tale of two backpackers in Thailand spiralling into criminal pleasure-seeking. Broke, obsessive, and caught up in the mayhem of a military coup d'état, the narrator and his dangerously charismatic friend each arrive at their own conflicting versions of self-reflection, as the new political order makes their crimes increasingly hard to hide.
Mixing the excitement and drama of pulp fiction with the nuance and lyricism of literary fiction, Smile for the Coup D'état is a fast-paced story about extreme mental states, with characters pushed to their psychological limits with guilt, envy, cravings, violence, intoxication, and fear.
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@LaraBlunte Thanks Lara! Good advice. Surprisingly hard to do, aren't they? You kind of have to embrace cheesiness!
Sean_Cameron
Written a new short story, 'Witness of Dreams', which can be found in my Universal Drift book. It's a bit weird.
Interested to hear any feedback, as always. Check it out:
https://www.wattpad.com/story/44595941-universal-drift
Sean_Cameron
Haha - yeah. Gotta read the good stuff and hope that, eventually, something sticks!
Jotillidie
Hey I just read both your works and they're great! I also love the list of authors on your profile though I needed to look some of them up ;|
I would love it if you could check out my story sometime? It's really different from your genre you may not want to--It's called 'The Blanket's Paint'. Technically it's General Fiction too but it's LGBTQ+ themed. Maybe. If you want. I love you any which way, you're a great writer! Can't wait for your update!
Sean_Cameron
Smile for the Coup D'état is now a featured read on Wattpad. Check it out under the General Fiction category