Synopsis: Road Block

What do you do when you realise you have the plot for a best seller in your head, but your main character is holding it to ransom? When the main characters of three other plot ideas are also being held hostage by a lunatic you yourself created.

Alexander Cole has been sitting in front of his laptop, on and off, for two years, eighty-six days, three hours, fifty-two minutes, and seven seconds without typing one word of his novel that he hasn’t deleted. Without a doubt, he is at the end of his rope. His main guy, Max Devlin is not the nicest of characters, and has proved this by holding the plot of the novel ransom… even from Alex.

Armed with nothing but his laptop, a week’s worth of clothes, two credit cards, his favourite novel, three quarters of a bottle of Malibu left over from Christmas, six cigarettes, an address book, his MP3 player, and a metal tin filled with odds and sods (including a bottle opening key ring, a tennis ball, and a broken Zippo lighter,) Alex goes on a road trip to break his way through the ultimate writer’s block.