{"id":849463,"date":"2025-11-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/?p=849463"},"modified":"2025-11-06T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:25:13","slug":"cowardly-lion-drunken-antelope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/cowardly-lion-drunken-antelope\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowardly lion? Drunken antelope?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I\u2019m in the car with the kids, especially if it\u2019s with the boys, I play a game of \u201cWhich would you rather?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The questions I ask are things like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cWhich would you rather be? A cowardly lion or a drunken antelope?\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cWould you rather have the feet of a goat or the tail of a giant crow?\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cWould you prefer to swim like a fish or fly like a bird?\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cWould you rather speak like a croaky old man or have a nose as long as your finger?\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cWould you like to smell like a flowerpot or feel like a turnip?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The kids ask questions too. Teddy \u2013 who is a wonderful child, but can be extremely boring \u2013 asks only football-related questions: would you rather score 900 goals for Banbury United (a less-than-wonderful team) or 90 goals for a Premier League side?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tally, his twin, offers questions on whatever fantasy topic is obsessing her at the time: \u201cwould you rather be an air-element creature who\u2019s afraid of flying or a water-element one who doesn\u2019t like getting wet?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Except for the whole football-related thing, journeys go quite fast and pleasantly. It\u2019s striking how deeply engaged the kids get with even the most absurd questions. \u201cHmm, who\u2019d win in a battle between a giant squirrel and a platoon of 12 miniature, but grumpy, sheep? Now, let me see \u2026\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s easy to think that this kind of nonsense is a model for writing books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Come up with a wonderfully imaginative concept. (uh \u2013 a world where people walk around with daemons in the form of animals, Philip Pullman\u2019s brilliant <em>Northern Lights<\/em> concept.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keep the strokes of imagination coming \u2013 a device for truth-telling, armoured bears, nomads who live on canals, gangs of child abductors, witches, parallel universes, a knife that can slice through those universes, soul-eating spectres, and more.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Write it all really well \u2013 quality of execution always vastly matters, of course.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Get a bestseller, a film deal, and about 200 tons of critical praise.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>And yes. Kind of. But mostly no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s conventional to praise the imagination of novelists \u2013 conventional for novelists to honour that aptitude, conventional for teachers to praise kids for their imaginative feats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But imagination is easy. Our car-full of idiots spouting nonsense about goat\u2019s feet and boozy antelopes is easy enough to create. A lot of the questions feel kind of dull, but plenty don\u2019t. They have some bite. A proto-novelist concealed in the footwell could get enough ideas to fuel a fair few novels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The real problem isn\u2019t coming up with stuff; it\u2019s disciplining it. There are at least three different disciplines which matter here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reality<\/strong> is one. I wrote a novel involving the manipulation of data in an undersea cable. That\u2019s not an absurd idea: there are loads of cables. The war in Ukraine has exposed their vulnerability. There are plenty of companies who offer the ability to operate sub-sea robots to repair breaks and the like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But (if you\u2019re writing realistic, adult novels) you can\u2019t just wave your hands at all that stuff. You need some measure of accuracy. That\u2019s not really because your readership is going to know all about sub-sea cable repair. It\u2019s more that your writing won\u2019t smell authentic unless it\u2019s deeply rooted in reality. The more you discover about the reality, the more you\u2019ll find details which seem utterly compelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So that\u2019s a constraint, a fierce one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, <strong>novelty<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your strokes of imagination are of no value if they feel jaded. Picking up Pullman\u2019s ideas about daemons has no real use now: he\u2019s done it. You could fool around with the exact definition of that idea (daemons take human, not animal, form; children don\u2019t have them, adults do; only the evil or the powerful have daemons; etc), but no matter what you did, the idea would lack novelty. It would lack that sense of something fresh and compelling that readers (and agents) demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s another fiercely hard constraint to meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then, <strong>coherence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pullman wrote two back-to-back trilogies about the same fantasy world, but (for my money) only the first of the novels really excels \u2013 that book is a true kids\u2019 classic, one that ought to be read and honoured in 100 years\u2019 time. The rest? Crikey, it just gets so baggy. It\u2019s one thing after another. A cowardly lion, then a drunken antelope, then a 900-career-goals player from a north Oxfordshire town, then, what?, a boy with the feet of a goat and the odour of a flowerpot?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having everything in your novel be new, compelling and yet also clustering round some meaningful central concern? That\u2019s hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The difficult thing in writing isn\u2019t imagination as such. It\u2019s roping up those creatures of the imagination into an enclosure that feels realistic, new and coherent. That\u2019s hard. That\u2019s why we\u2019re here, scratching away at these pages, trying to get them to feel right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019re doing something hard and something worth doing. And if you\u2019re doing something hard, but worthwhile, then for the love of every goat-footed boy in Banbury, get help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/\"><strong>Help is 30% cheaper in November<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can become a <a href=\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/join-us\/\">Premium Member<\/a> for 30% off (our lowest price ever.) You get our library of self-paced video courses. You get our community. You get AgentMatch. You get live weekly events and workshops (including themed content such as Getting Published and Build Your Book). You get entry to all our competitions. You get\u00a0query letter reviews<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(once a year).\u00a0You get to Ask Us Anything. You get to be supported by probably the most supportive and expert writing group on the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So: <a href=\"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/join-us\/\">join us<\/a>. We\u2019d be thrilled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FEEDBACK FRIDAY \/ Ingredients mix<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What are the big imaginative strokes in your novel? Like what are the 10-15 biggest elements in your novel?<\/strong> If you\u2019re writing kids\u2019 fantasy novels, that\u2019ll involve obviously imaginative elements like daemons and talking bears. But even if you\u2019re writing perfectly realistic fiction, there\u2019ll be some big elements that give flavour to the entire novel. So: list them out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The questions I want you to think about when you review your work and give feedback to others are: <em>does this list feel coherent and new? Does it all fit together? Does this collection of ideas feel like a novel?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because this is a new sort of exercise, let me give you an example of what I\u2019m after. If I were thinking about the make-up of <em>This Thing of Darkness<\/em> (my subsea cable story), I\u2019d list the following big elements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cold cases<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cImpossible\u201d robberies carried out by elite climber<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Locked room murder puzzle (Marine engineer found hanged in locked room)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Exam for sergeant<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Exhibits officer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ships, marine surveying, the American fianc\u00e9e of dead engineer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sub-sea cable and interference by hedge-fund types<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Very good amateur climber who helps Fiona<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Abduction of Fiona<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Post abduction trauma and lots of dope-smoking<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Burgling a young woman in London, smoking dope with her, losing shoes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Climax on a trawler in the Irish Sea. Bad guys. Guns. Fiona sinks ship. Rescue.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Post-rescue coverup (by Fiona). Arrest of elite climber<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>That all feels like a reasonable mix to me, except that the \u201cexhibits officer\u201d bit feels a little out of place. And honestly, reviewing the novel now, I\u2019d consider ditching that exhibits officer strand. It added a layer of complexity and atmosphere to the novel which it barely needed. (My books don\u2019t lack either of those things.) Otherwise, yes, that all feels like a nice package \u2013 imaginative enough, but also coherent and intriguing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So: that\u2019s your example. Now go and prepare your own list. Post into <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/myjericho.jerichowriters.com\/forums\/forum\/feedback-friday\/6-november-ingredients-mix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this forum<\/a><\/strong> on Townhouse. (Remember to log in first!) As ever, be generous with your reviews of others\u2019 work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Til soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I\u2019m in the car with the kids, especially if it\u2019s with the boys, I play a game of \u201cWhich would you rather?\u201d The questions I ask are things like this: And so on. The kids ask questions too. 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