I'm not done talking yet
Hey, did I mention that the Political Machine has been updating this whole time while I've been away? You know, maybe you should go catch up on the chapter starting here. If that's not enough, go ahead and buy the book.
But yeah. If you have been reading, then you know what's going on in this story. This, oddly enough, is one I had planned from word 0. Which is to say that it was banging around in my head in some form before I even started writing chapter 1. I picked which presidents I was going to use, started doing sketches of them. Carl had shared with me a tidbit about Buchanan that he had a big neck scar, so I decided to make him a floating head. (This makes perfect sense to me.) So then I thought to myself, hey, he's the fuck-up character, maybe he did have a body and he lost it. Or HEY, maybe he and his body had a big fight, and it left him!
Because Buchanatron's body seceded from him, ha ha I'm fucking precious.
So I sat down to start writing chapter 1, and decided that Buchanatron's body would be the mysterious villain who sabotaged the security system. At the time, I honestly thought that this would be revealed by the end of chapter 2. Then, well, stuff happened, and I didn't do that. True story! But anyway, chapter 2 came and went, then 3, then 4, and enough time was passing that I started waffling back and forth over whether I even wanted to include the original idea at this point. Even wrote an alternate explanation for the sabotage that would be revealed in passing in the final chapter, but didn't like it enough to use it. So hey, here we go with my original idea.
The only remaining problem: I wrote chapter 1 before Buchanatron's personality had really gelled. I was still thinking of him as the annoying, occasionally acerbic fuck-up, not the loveable idiot fuck-up he turned into. So even though this chapter demands that the body be no smarter than Buchanatron, I have him out there as responsible for craftily sabotaging advanced technology. WHOOPS. But I think I have a workaround for that which I'll be using by the end of the chapter, so that's good.
But yeah. If you have been reading, then you know what's going on in this story. This, oddly enough, is one I had planned from word 0. Which is to say that it was banging around in my head in some form before I even started writing chapter 1. I picked which presidents I was going to use, started doing sketches of them. Carl had shared with me a tidbit about Buchanan that he had a big neck scar, so I decided to make him a floating head. (This makes perfect sense to me.) So then I thought to myself, hey, he's the fuck-up character, maybe he did have a body and he lost it. Or HEY, maybe he and his body had a big fight, and it left him!
Because Buchanatron's body seceded from him, ha ha I'm fucking precious.
So I sat down to start writing chapter 1, and decided that Buchanatron's body would be the mysterious villain who sabotaged the security system. At the time, I honestly thought that this would be revealed by the end of chapter 2. Then, well, stuff happened, and I didn't do that. True story! But anyway, chapter 2 came and went, then 3, then 4, and enough time was passing that I started waffling back and forth over whether I even wanted to include the original idea at this point. Even wrote an alternate explanation for the sabotage that would be revealed in passing in the final chapter, but didn't like it enough to use it. So hey, here we go with my original idea.
The only remaining problem: I wrote chapter 1 before Buchanatron's personality had really gelled. I was still thinking of him as the annoying, occasionally acerbic fuck-up, not the loveable idiot fuck-up he turned into. So even though this chapter demands that the body be no smarter than Buchanatron, I have him out there as responsible for craftily sabotaging advanced technology. WHOOPS. But I think I have a workaround for that which I'll be using by the end of the chapter, so that's good.