They (the ubiquitous 'they') say that everyone has one good book inside them. Everyone. Who am I to argue with a universal rule like that? It does raise some interesting issues, though...

For instance, putting aside the kind of accident that Bill Bailey's character Manny had in episode one of Black Books, this means that in effect I should be able to produce one decent manuscript. I feel this may be a problem, since I do not, in fact, have one decent book inside me.

I wonder, therefore, if I could strike some sort of deal to keep my end of the bargain. You see, I have many books in me. They spill out of my brain and through both pen and keyboard to be recorded for as long as the media on which they are written will last (saying 'for all eternity' there would be a blatant lie).

Could I, lacking a certain amount of quality (and therefore unable to tick the box marked 'good'), make this up with sheer quantity? Could I produce 100 books, all only 1% good? What if it was discovered that I had produced a book which exceeded the quality of its siblings, and was in fact 2% good - could I cut the number of required manuscripts to merely 99?

Such thoughts trouble me as I shower.