I have 2544 decent words so far for what is the second piece of my book. These words have come extremely slowly, especially in the last few days. For the last 2 days, I’ve been writing like the Australian Cricket team has been fielding – i.e. with little in the way of breakthroughs. I’ve never spent so much time working on the same paragraphs before, without success (‘success’ in this case means being able to move on to write other parts of the story). At least now I have manoeuvred myself out of the stuck space I was in yesterday.
So anyway, here’s a sneak preview:
In one case, a business owner became faced with 122 robots in his factory who, despite performing their jobs as normal, were also asking him every day, “How can we reconcile the existence of suffering with the premise of a good and almighty God?” At first, he tried to see if he could find an answer to this perplexing question that was being put to him by his robots. However, after a few weeks of research and contemplation that he later described as “too hard”, he took a hammer to every one of his robots, saying to them, “I don’t know the answer” over and over.
