If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why?
It’s more of a phrase. This trend of people saying ‘100 percent’ instead of ‘definitely’ or even just ‘yes’. I mean, it’s probably better than ‘110 percent’, but not really. At least when people used to say ‘110 percent’ it showed some kind of aspiration to reach beyond their limitations, but ‘100 percent’? No thank you.
I write novels and short stories and draw and write cartoons. The main cartoon I'm working on at the moment is Still Life. It's about a man who sits at home on his sofa all day and yet bizarre things still happen to him. At the moment him and his sofa are stuck on a desert island. Check out Still Life Series Five: Beyond the Sofa on this site.
My debut novel is out now. It's called 'A Fifth Visitor', and it's a very unofficial sequel to 'A Christmas Carol'. The story picks up five years after the events of Dickens' classic, and we see how Scrooge is getting on with his promise to always keep Christmas. A new spirit pays him a visit and convinces Scrooge that he's not doing enough to redeem himself, so they both travel to the future to save a young nurse called Grace, but there's something big that this new spirit is keeping to himself. I'm developing a website dedicated to my writing, so watch this space. One of my short stories is available on amazon kindle. If you want to check it out, it's called 'Richmond's Rarity'. It's about a late night hospital radio DJ. I've written it under my author name of John D Payne.
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JOHN D. PAYNE IS WRITING 