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Will Once

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Laughter in a crazy world...

Life is too short for bad wine, a home without love or a world without humour.

I write science fiction, except when I'm writing about chess, or fantasy/ horror or spy fiction. Most of all I wrote to put a smile on your face. We may not be able to solve the problems of the world together, but it would be good to have a chuckle about the absurdness of it all.

Think Terry Pratchett/ Monty Python / Douglas Adams ... I'm not as good as any of those but I'm a heck of a lot cheaper.

"Love, Death and Tea" is the story of the world's first pacifist zombie, trying to solve the meaning of life and escape from a corrupt Government whilst constantly being confused by shoelaces.

"Once upon a chess game" is an unique mix of chess p
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Will Once Is billionaire a job? If so, I'd like to apply...

Seriously, my current profession is part consultant and part writer. I write when I am not being a co…more
Is billionaire a job? If so, I'd like to apply...

Seriously, my current profession is part consultant and part writer. I write when I am not being a consultant - it's a bit like Conan Doyle when he worked as a doctor. In between patients he would write his stories about the world's first consulting detective.

What I would really like to do is to be a full-time writer. Then the consultancy work can fall away like a butterfly shedding its old skin. (less)
Will Once I try to do something other than writing. Going for a walk, working on another project, writing a different part of the book. That seems to let the su…moreI try to do something other than writing. Going for a walk, working on another project, writing a different part of the book. That seems to let the subconscious chew on the problem in the background.

If that doesn't work, whisky.

And if that doesn't work, more whisky.(less)
Average rating: 4.18 · 96 ratings · 44 reviews · 8 distinct works
Love, Death and Tea

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Blinking into the light

An insect crawled out of my salad. It was a garden centre restaurant in leafy Surrey where ladies of a certain age meet to talk about nasturtiums and put the world to rights over a skinny latte and Victoria sponge. They didn’t say anything about the additional protein frolicking in the lightly dressed side salad.…
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“Did you hear about Katie Parkinson? ... She's going out with Christopher... They've been kissing."

"It was like a Semtex explosion in my brain. I did not know whether to cry or run away.”
Will Once, Global Domination for Beginners

“It’s all about truth,” he said. “We don’t trust governments because they don’t tell us the truth. They make every story sound like it’s good news, even when it’s not. Those who are in power sing their own praises. Those who aren’t in power criticise those that are. And no-one tells the whole truth. That’s why we look for conspiracies. We know we are being lied to. We just don’t know what they are lying to us about.”
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“I would only ever love Katie Parkinson. That I would have to take over the world to get her. And I realised what I had to do to achieve total global domination.”
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