Setting the inspiration and intention for this blog
Reading The Broken World by Tim Etchells
The Broken World by Tim Etchells
Score: 8/10
First published: 2008
Original language: English
Welcome to my blog.
This was the novel—the only novel—I could finish during my first year of employment for Mulcahy Sweeney Literary Agency. And my boss was the one who gave it to me…
The reason I’m returning to it now is because it’s written as a guide. I like guides. (I like being told what to do through the safety of a book.) It’s cheeky too because there are always two levels at play. There’s the video game the narrator is ostensibly talking about and then there’s his real life which keeps creeping in. For me this is the perfect framework for writing about anything. I want to hear what you have to say, obviously. And I want to know that it’s been well-researched, seriously. Plus it’s cool that you’re being generous with your words, directing them towards things that are outside of yourself… yeah, nice. But I need to know who I’m reading. I need to feel close to you—even if only superficially...
Ok it’s time. Are you ready to read the opening of this novel by Tim Etchell’s? The Broken World…
When you first start The Broken World, you’ll see just normal logosand after that you will see a field of ordinary black and then thetitle music will softly start to sound softly.
This is the first walkthrough that I ever wrote and I hope you canforgive any error in my advice or in the English, I guess that’s how itgoes. I must have been in The Broken World about 600 times (or probablymore) and tho many times I came back dead or badly injured I know itbetter now and sometimes come back alive. I think I know some towns inthere better than the back of my own hand – at least that’s what Torysays. Oh yeah. I dedicate this guide to Tory. Hi Tory.The black will slowly turn to the white and the sound will rise andwhen you push the Start all things will begin. Be patient.
This guidehelps in every place and makes it easy to fight all the bad guys andfind a good way through – so PLEASE read the guide.
Did you get that? This guy has you COVERED. Just how I’m going to cover you in perfect words like an electric blanket of entering spells. I want to dethrone every ostensibly scary book there is—No novel should seem unapproachable once I’ve had my hands on it. I’m going to take you through loads of books (all the hardest ones) and show you why they’re so good (sometimes) and other times whyyyyyy they’re so bad—I’m going to take out all the prettiest bits too so you can enjoy them without having to spend hooooouuuurs and I mean hoooooooouuuuurrrrrs alone wading through the crusty whole (I’m a shy girl, let me take the hit)—disclaimer: you should also probably read the books themselves but maybe just maybe if I bust my tips hard enough you won’t even need to (?) It’s about de-mystifying and enabling access—only maybe though, because that aspiration is Dubious. (But perhaps could you buy into this fantasy for me anyway? That somehow my writing is useful… important… necessary?)
(Hey seriously… thanks for letting me do this.)
Really fresh—from the grips of my dirty bedroom,
Tilly