 In the days guys we've got Chris McWeer off the book called, Fings, sorry, fings. First and foremost mate, thanks for coming on. Hi menu, so social media. Let us say any questions on this show mate, but just talk mate, talk about, let's go back in the past mate, where you grew up and at when it all started. Maen nhw'n gwybod i felwch i amdannu. Gwybod i amdannu, dwi'n meddwl am ddegwyd. Diolch i chi'n meddwl. Rwy'n meddwl am ymlaen. Mae'r rhain eich mynd. Mae'r lluniau. Rwy'n meddwl am nodi! Beth bod y rhanio ar y stafel? Yn gweld ar y cyflwyno. Mae'n meddwl am y cyflwyno. Mae'n meddwl am y cyflwyno. Mae'n meddwl am ychydig. Mae'n meddwl am y cyflwyno. Mae'n meddwl am y ddechrau. Ie, I was only like two years ago, I thought, like, I'm gonna get a go. I had a stitch down, wrote my first short story mate, and then it's just that I can kick half to there. It's been mental. And it's been an unbelievable journey for it, isn't it? Ah, it's been rubbish for me. Cos you're everywhere with it. Oh, ni. How many pages is this bad boy got? I don't know. It's, I think, 220 pages. I dunno, man. It's a real book mate, no? It is a proper book mate. I was expecting to meet you tonight mate and it's gonna be a wee, a wee snider mate. So it was. It's that, less unfair play at yna. I've seen that, obviously luggage, it's getting spoken about in it. Here Irvin Wills you were saying? You tried to get a holiday him? Try to get a holiday him man, I tried to get him a copy I gave my copy, I met him at his book lunch Gave my copy, I don't know if he's read it or not yet But see, hope he likes it And this is the guy, he wrote the book for our train spotting So he's looking like he's your own Irvin get your finger at Get ready So you said you used to do this when you Where did that come about? Fagrezg a mate? We don't really kind of get into it I know mate, I know man Cyn紙 sydd wedi gyd wedi'i dod, gennym dweud yn gyfodol ac mae hwnnw'n dechrau at gweithio'n gwahydol, ac mae'n adonwch, hon yn gallu ei pleid. Roedd ydych chi, rhai? Roedd ni wedi'u balw i'r gwneud. Mae'r gwahud iawn, mae'n ddod, mae'n sylwgr i'r gwahyd, rhai. Mae hynny'n mynd i'r cyffredin a'r golaesau'n gwahanol yn ein tydd ond drwng fy ngos. Mae'n felwyd yn ei wneudodd. Mae gynhyrchu i chi gynhyrchu, dyna'n chyfnod i chi, gynhyrch nawr, mae chi wedi gredig falle'n ei ychydig. Mae'n ddorol, mae hwn gennym eu gweldoriaeth. Mae'n ddorol, mae Rhywbeth yn jod i chi'n arbennig. Mae hi wedi bod dwi wedi gyrdd i chi'n ddweud. Mae fydd hyn yn eu gweldoriaeth, dwi'n ddweud. Mae, mae'n ddweud. Maen nhw'n gydig. Mae'n cerdd i chi, mae'n gweldoriaeth. Mae wedi meddwl, mae gennym ei wneud. ond wasn't scared about, telling my mates that I'd been writing. so honestly mate felt as if I was coming out of the closet or something. Awesome boys! Awesome boys write stories. not a meme. I don't pour it out this weekend I'm gonna write a novel. I said it's right mate. but erm... but they won't give me powders out on their orders... fucking hell good on you man! then I let them read it and they were all like cowling... and they were saying these are fucking funny as fuck. A dyst dat gave me the confidence mate to keep going. then I put my stuff on mine and then... within my belt I think it was win eight months Mynd i chi'n gymrydd ychwaneddu, y maeddau yn ystod, ond gynnyddio gynnwys, ac felly mae ar y blynedd arboedd. Mae nhw'n gwno ddiddordeb, mae'n cynharu, mae'n niad i ganddwithi, gallwn ei ddifarcheb, yn ddyfodol, cerdd, ti'n ychwaneddu, mae'n ddiddordeb i'r ystod, ond rydyn ni'n dod o'r drwyddonau i'r ddechrau, mae'n ei ddiddorol oedd. Mae'n ei ddiddordeb i'r ddechrau, Yn gyfnod, mae'n r mentoring dweud â'r ystyn, vel mae'n hefyd yn ardal y rhan sy'n astudio meldyn. A byddai'n gwybod a chael gyda'r chy waxen nhw, yn oes flynyddol, a ddweud. Mae'n oes iawn, dyma'n ddweud, ond mae'n oes oedd angen, ond mae'n oes oed i'r eisteddf yn eisteddf yma. Flynydd yr angen, mae'r angen, eisteddf yn eisted ważnech gwybod. Ac mae'n ddweud. Nw'n gofio, mae'r roi. Yn gyflwng. Mae'r gofio, mae'n gofio. Yn gyfweld, i'w gweithio'r ar 170 o ysgol i'w sefydliad. Ac how did you not get your name on it? Mae title was not that good, mate. There it was. The one I came up with, I thought it was good. And then... ...fair a cup of weeks, can I think of it? Talking to you over the publisher, they were like... ...hade to break it to you, but your title is a bit shite. Repute prescription, and that was like, do you know what I... ...it is just quite door-intit, it's not a repeat prescription. I quite like it mate, it sounds like a glasgum mate, it does mate. But then they said to us like, we think you should call it here, we fffucking go, just HW, FG. four big letters on the front of the book and I was like actually yeah it's fucking that's better. How long did it take you to write that? That was again I started writing it as soon as I finished that one. I was writing to writing the new one so that was not but year, year and a half writing the new one so. So you've got the buzz now to keep going? That's what it's all about my mental mind just keep going now. I've written the now and the papers that I've seen. You're going to be one of the best offers that Scotland's ever seen. That's what they say mate fucking the pressure not a mean bit. That's a fucking hell of a bit of pressure on your shoulders innit. But fucking I'm into it man I'm just quite happy to try and as if I are burning then. Big time mate that's what Jess Solomon says innit. Bonnie's burning that's what he's saying mate so. Aye man I'm going. Fair play mate guy for go farm look mate. Book it. Next one mate. How do people get this book the one that's coming out? Newland same as this one so you can get it. My publisher's website so 404inc.com get it when they are. You can get it in Waterstones like Spurgyll Street, Sucklell Street, or our own Amazon as well get it when they are. Type in my name it's a name you won't fucking forget. Just make we are. It's my own name by the way. Mate first play it in. Cos like I say it's been odd. We're fully sure we're on social media. But aye man. Martin Comestran on that tweeting and every day there's some girls reading it. Always saying fucking hoarding only say that. I knew I should be hoarding like that. It's just like I say it. Are we feeling like see seeing people? Like reading my book. Cos like see when I signed a deal on that to publishers what that is we're going to print a 500 copies of this. I was like fucking hell man. I don't know 500 people. Now we're going to sell 500 books man. Now like fucking trust this it'll buy it. Now I started to think I was a weak fucking man. I can sell 500 books man. So the 500 just in what the pre-orders not mean. So they're like we need to print half a million. We're going to print half a thousand. Fuck it out. So damn on all. So it's just it just keeps going mate. It's just staying better than any thought it was going to. So just. Your expectations mate for shooting by them then fair play. But the next one we've got to go bigger and better. That's it mate. I've got a good feeling about the next one. I think it's better. And you've got a big forward one aren't you? Aye it's good man. It's built up kind of steadily all the years man. It's been good. Where does your ideas come from? Because they're fucking. They're madness aren't they? Ah mental mate aye. I said it earlier mate mate it's just fried you know what I mean. Join the club brer I don't worry brer. Aye it's just growing up nice then mate growing up in my scheme you're just you're surrounded by fucking inspiration everywhere and all. I mean you can either be dragged in by it or you can look at it and be inspired by it you know what I mean. Like growing up in Gathamelton then Springboy you're just surrounded by just mental characters everywhere and they'll just match it happening. It's just so much stuff that happens in it just talking about. I'm taking it on and I'm thinking like how can I turn this into a story you know what I mean? What can I do with this man? Any dark story I hear my mate tell me's I think like how can I fucking blow that up? How can I make it funnier you know what I mean? Make money off your mates aren't it? Get them all mad mate. Follow them up with Charlie and Booz mate. Just listen mate just write all your ideas down. Is there anybody in this book that they know a story about them? There's a few mate aye. Is there a no no? Aye there's a no I don't know man. Have I read that they're like just fucking is that me? Is that me Erongin? Is that me Erongin? Aye. Wyam's about my granny and she clocked it and she was like that fucking is that about me? That was another one I wrote. One of my mates in it wrote my mate Jamie in it and I'm ad story and I put that story online and he read it and he pulled me up with it and he's like I can't believe you fucking wrote me in that and then he came to the book launch and that story's in the book and then he fucking got his aim back at the book launch so we're doing like a Q&A at the book launch Felly, Jack in the Jove, I jacked in, working the sports rope, you know, I'm writing full-time. Fucking brilliant by magic, so I want to keep being able to do that. So then, I've wrote those two books, I shot stories, I wrote my next goals to write a novel. That big full-length book, big full-length story, write that. If I can get that done, now I want to try and write for the telly, not I mean try and make a series for the telly, not I mean write something like Black Mirror, something like that. That's because fucking that sat me. So then after that, my ultimate goal would be to write a film and get like a film made. That would be a fucking, that's a dream mate, that's a dream. Your head, right, screwed on your shoulders mate, you've got vision in your dreams. You need to have a why to get up in the morning, because if you don't like it, I say it's not a matter of working in a sports show, but are you really fulfilling that potential because you're getting up and you're hitting life. Now you've got a why, but isn't it got up, you'll have your lulls, where you'll be fucked a day or two and you're depressed and you think you're, even though you write a book, you're weaving this when you come out, you've probably sent yourself, is that it? It's good at a time, but then you still probably feel the same, do you know what I mean? So it's all about keep going mate and getting another one out. That's it, I think it's real man. And it does at what mate, it's unbelievable. It's good mate, it's fucking, I think it's real man, I'm just a main muscratic, what I mean, I'm always just trying to outdo myself, what I mean, I write something. And I think, oh fuck that's good. And then I put it away, then the next day I'm like, read that again and I'm like, nah I can do better, I can do better, I just want to keep pushing myself and keep trying to do better. That's what it's all about man. But that's what it's all about mate, to keep going to strive at it mate yourself. Can you, so when these come out, can you, obviously, can we turn little films in there and they're there and things like that? I think so man. I'm trying to get it adapted, I'm trying to get that book adapted for the telly. See like a wee six parts of you, you should take six of the, either get like six of the stories and adapt them into like a kind of hoff or no telly episode or make wee kind of money ones, like make like three stories per hoff or no episode, not a mean wee kind of ten minute stories, wee ten minute videos, make them into a wee programme, that's the kind of format I'd like to do that. So I've pitched it to the BBC a couple of times, not my back, but I'm just going to keep going, not a mean, they'll say I eventually mate. Definitely, let's see, you've just got to keep knocking it to door until eventually, look mate. I sit man. I like it, two books mate, I'm proud of you. Cheers mate. Fucking proud of you. We're playing an old firm greats game on on Sunday mate. We're opening doors mate, aren't we? Two scheme boys, thinking about what we're legends. Are you buzzing for it? I can't wait mate, fucking cannot wait man. Lining up beside fucking Rudi Vata and Marlose and the younger self mate. Did I agap myself? I had an old firm greats game, we're playing in against all the old, old legends, not a mean, then you've got two fucking, he's getting done, you're getting done Bob. Now two young common legends mate, aren't we? Sit man, aye. No, it's good to see these guys like yourself man, like Gary Fawls and the D-Max, where they're just like, seeing people for the scheme down there, I say that sort of time, like being for a scheme, easier like a certain mentality, you know, equip safer fucking real life better than these people. I think it's just easier, you know, easier when they're still about you, about a big about you. Of course it does. They feel as if, I feel as if though, when I'm doing that stuff I don't deserve it. I don't deserve it, everything we've created mean my boys here man, it's been, it's non-funded mate, it's just with vision, work ethic, belief system, it's, we've created what I say absolutely nothing, like I say we've just heard, go on and promote ourselves here, we've just heard 1.5 million views mate, it's the social media platform in six months, which is unbelievable, we've heard more 25 episodes. This is just with vision mate, and work ethic to believe in yourself aye, and all the doubt was in all the haters at the start, and it does, it can be disheartening, but if you believe in yourself to keep fucking going man, nothing can stop you. You're saying earlier man, the only person that can stop you is yourself. Yourself aye? But you still don't fear as if you deserve it, you've came across the... It's a boster syndrome man, it's a good call. It's fucking a shit mate. You think you fucking, you get that a lot of other writers say they've got it like boster syndrome, like oh I don't deserve this, I'm not as good a writer as everybody else, but I don't know man, I feel as if like I'm not as good as other people, but I think just as much right to be publishing books is empty man, and I'm just going to keep, and if I don't think I'm as good as somebody else, I'm just going to try and get better, and catch up with them and try and overtake them. It's a seed that doubt mate, we've placed somewhere here doing it, that we're no good enough for, we need to stop, but that one negative comment alright, I need to stop, I need to stop working on what I've done. I've written I've worked on the last fucking four year, I hate something, I'm just going to get up for some bobag, who's sitting in a house probably, fucking sucking off his dog mate, and just hating on life mate, but that still upsets me mate, I'm sensitive man, I'm really sensitive. It's that one bad comment mate, you can get a hundred good comments, and you're like fucking magic, and then the one bad one, that's the one you focus on, that's the one that fucks you about. Are you going to get another one out? It's true, when are you going to plan the next one? This one's leaving, aren't you, but I'm still full man. When so, have you got a plan, how many books you want a day a year? I thought about it, I'd like to day one a year, but it's good to get the kind of, I like the momentum, I like building up the hype, every two years is good, that's what I mean, so we've got one book, I've got my new book coming out this year, that'll day good, and then next year, I'll buy the hype, talk about the new one, then take a year off, and then get people talking about when's the next one going to come out, and then bring it to the next one, after that, but if I've not got a fucking book out, then I'm not making money. So it's a funny one mate, but one a year to know, I think I'll really properly establish myself. Try not burn yourself with either, because you don't want to lose your love for it, but late as now you've got the fire, but you want to keep churning them out. I just write every day man, it's the first thing, honestly it's the first thing, so I'm like well, I'm just jumping on it, and I'm just going to keep doing it. Can you clearly love that? See I used to always think a writer mate, just sitting in a fucking cupboard, big grey hair mate, and just writing away man, the geniuses. I sure everybody thinks mate, I think that's what I thought, that's what put me off writing for so long, because you think it's just all guys, and all going to do it. What I mean by that. And then, but it's no mate, like a fucking, like I've met hundreds of other people, loads of other people, but at the same time just me and that, like I've done it, or I've tried to do it, or I've tried to make it, because there's a lot of people, there's a lot of people trying to do it. See I don't know any authors, J.K Rowland. And then as well, like fucking cosy the writing on that, I was able to go through the, I did well with the jewel, like through Hans Edinburgh, and there was a big creative writing programme in there, like see the guys in there mate, just mega talented, not I mean, sorry they've got all the time the world obviously, sitting in the flakey bit or something like that, but stuffies guys while writing is phenomenal man, not I mean like, I think it's just hard romance. So, if I don't realise you're so many writers, so you need a bit of luck and all, let any life, a wee break, how did you get your break, so this was through social media on it? I mean again mate, just pure luck mate, just, followed, my publisher followed for me, they were just starting out, at the time I was just starting out writing books, so they were just starting to publish stuff, and then, so I just followed them on Twitter, and then, they started publishing like a wee magazine of short stories, and then I'll just ask people like send the short stories, we'll put them on this wee magazine, so I was like right fuck it, brass neck it, sent them on, and they liked it, so they did, so they had like a launch party, followed a magazine, and they invited me through, and they were like, do you want to come on stage and like read out, read out your story? I was like fucking no chance man, like, I doubt it mate, I doubt it mate, I was like I don't know you could go on stage and read out short stories, I thought you could only go on stage and like, they start not comedy in that, you know what I mean, but I was on stage, read out my story eventually, fucking worked up like a wise man, had like four cans on the train, he came out, came out my ass, grabbed my eye, got a pair of pair of pints when I got there, went up, took my story, and then, got loads of laughs mate, honestly, came off his stage feeling fucking 10 feet tall, it was brilliant, came off, and the publishers came up to his like, oh that was really good, and I thought right fuck it, never, never, now's your chance, I was like look, I've wrote a book, basically I've got enough stories, would you just publish it? and they were like fucking I definitely, like send us it, and I was like right, I will do, now I woke up the next morning, I was thinking about it, and I was like, nah they'll just be nice, they would say that, they wouldn't say no, not I mean, so I never sent them it, and it was two weeks later, they emailed me like, what's the book you were going to send us? I was like fuck man, they were being serious, sent them it, and they were like, I love it, if I had to come through Edinburgh for a meeting, then we'll get it all sorted, get all the paperwork on that sorted, and that was me mate, through Edinburgh, signing a book deal, fucking surreal man, that's mad on it, I admit, and just that two years of writing, were you writing before it, but were you writing it? I kind of tried mate, obviously they're writing the school on that, and they get you the stuff, and not English on that, but, I didn't like the kind of stuff, they're making you write man, like personal reflective essays, so I was like writing about something, but it's died on that, I was like, this is fucking shit. So a bit grim on it, a bit grim mate, and it kind of, you lose, it doesn't give you that kind of love of writing, I mean, you should be encouraging, you write, match it, and if you want to see that, you know what I mean, so, that kind of put me off writing, and then when I was 14, when I was 14, I kind of tried to get a go, and I got like two pages in it, writing a book, and I was like, this is fucking shit man, just patch that, just gave up, I mean, back out playing football or whatever, just no caring about writing, and that was me until, I mean, I was in the back of my mind, should get a go, should get a go, so I've always been a big reader, and I've read some out of shit, and I've been like, fucking, I could be better than that, you know what I mean? And then it was me, just two years ago, I thought, I'm going to get it, I'm just going to get a go, then, don't do it, I was out of it, and I just fucking kept going. Fucking better than alright bro, man, it's a full book, man, and another one coming out. I know man, I've no other chance to just sit back, and fucking take it on, because it's just been launched up, which has been good. This has been good, man, because it can be difficult. Did you drink it then? No as much as I used to, because obviously, when you're 18 and 19, you start going up, I mean well, when you're 16, you start going up, you start having vikies and that. Because usually, like I say, there's so many stories, obviously the stuff you put online, this is like acid stories as well, you tripple shit mate, I'm lying, I mean, if I was to learn it mate, I would chat with your dormitory, we would have some party up there mate. I know man, I know man. See when you do your short stories, do you think to yourself right, that's fucking crazy, do you know, but it's good also, how do you know, how do you... Well there's a couple of wrote and I've thought, nah it's just too weird, it's like it's too weird, if you know what I mean. And then there's other ones, I've thought, ah this isn't weird enough man, this could be better. I was thinking, see when I was writing that book, it was in my mind, I'm still on my heat, I don't want people to think I'm weird, you know what I mean. But then writing my new book, I've put that out man, if you can't know I'm weird now, I know I'm weird, I'm quite happy with it. Everybody's weird mate. Exactly mate, so see my new book man, it's a lot weirder than that. No mate, read out one of your, read out a short story, your best one, I get it out of it. I read out a sweet one mate. I know, I read out one called Davey right, that's his, I'll read out one out. Just a wee short one mate, I think it's one of the funniest ones in the book. You'll like this mate. Let's go. We bedtime story mate. So this is Davey right, Davey was a big man, he was a very big man, and he loved his tattoos, it's my phone away, he loved his tattoos, he loved them so much, cheers, that he dedicated his life to stuff in his face, getting bigger and fatter, so that he could get even mer, stretching his skin to a breaking point. Davey reckoned that his body had the same surface area as four king sized doofies, and he was particularly proud that he's got ganchoing ars. It was the only part of his body that he kept free of tattoos for years, but now Davey believed it was finally big enough for what to begin on his latest masterpiece. Davey printed off the picture of what he wanted inked upon his derier, it was the pyramids of Egypt, there was no spiritual reason for this, he had no connection to Egypt around that, he just liked the pyramids, he thought it looked quite cool right, but Davey was steaming when he printed off the picture though, as he couldn't get tattooed when he was sober right, it was far too sore, so he didn't even realise that he printed off the ring picture. He fell into the tattoo show upon hour later, Alec, Davey's favourite artist, smiled at the sight of this mammoth man lumbering in his shop, Alec had made a fortune after Davey were ears. Take a seat, big chap, said Alec, pulling on a blue latex glove, what would they in the day then? Davey thumbwled around in his pockets for the picture, here he said, thrusting the folded up piece of paper on Alec's horn, I want this and I want it on Mars. Alec unfolded the picture and gave a wee chuckle, you never felt he surprised me Davey, get your ba hooky out then. Davey obliged and he pulled down his grey droggy bottoms, revealing his cellulite ridden buttocks. His arse was so big and so dimpled, that it looked like a memory full mattress that had been sgelked with a hundred tennis balls. Alec got to work, meticulously portraying the landscape on to Davey's gluteus maximus, it was a landscape that were actually both very familiarly. Davey passed out a few moments after the needle made contact with his skin. After a couple of hours, Alec wiped off the last of Davey's thick, cholesterol-laden blood and admired his work. Davey, Davey wake up big man, that's your done, Alec said, and he gave Davey an open palm spank. Davey rose groggilyff, he slumber, he seed thump him and his arse throbbing. He ambled out of the mirror, he's joggys and knickers, still running his ankles. Cut when he's cocking balls in one eye. He turned round so he could see his new tattoo. He could definitely make it a pyramid, it wasn't he had the Egyptian kind, or the Mayan kind, or even Aztec or Inca. It was of the Scottish kind, it was unmistakably the forge. Davey screwed up his ice, he thought he must have been in the midst of some vivid, bucky induced dream, but it wasn't he. The greeny blue glass of the forge's pyramidal entrance stood out beautifully against the pale skin of Davey's right arse cheek. Just left his crack, sat a throng of trollys, and to the right a real woman, weighed down by her bags of mesjies, waited for a bus. A bin overflowed with McDonald's Happy Meal boxes and fag doubts. The whole scene recreated in startling realism by Alec. Davey fucking loved it. Yes. Cheers man. That's what we're in about. Get it boy. Where the fuck did you get that story for? That's where I want to know. Like I say mate, he's fucking wasted. But it stole me that. That's your creativity is buzzing out your nut. Aye man. Do you know what I mean? Do you get dreams? Nightmares? Just fucking mad dreams mate. A lot of times I wake up during the night mate and I just fucking make a mad note on my phone like you're the mad dreamer for the lover and then I'll just fucking try and write it down. Make it into something but it's a bit. That's it man. You ever done stand up comedy? I tried it mate, I done a wee bit at the Glasgow comedy festival last year actually. It was back in March. It was fucking good mate, I really enjoyed it but I don't know man. I like being fucking like behind the scenes and I like being the man who's writing stuff. That's what I meant. It's good fun mate. I like doing a lot of stuff where I perform my stories and I'll do a lot of that. But that's different. That's different for stand up comedy. I've got the book in front of me and I saw what I'm doing. Is that the thing on your feet? I've got a kind of shield. I know what I'm going to say and I've read them out before and I know it gets laughs and stuff. I know how to time it with that. Whereas stand up comedy mate it's a different beast in it mate. It's a fucking different game mate. It takes some bottle. It takes a hell of a lot of bottle and it's a craft. It's such a craft man. I've got a lot of that. You should see guys like Guy Foles and Chrissie Ross. Fucking like D Maxwell and all that man. It takes some bulk because you know yourself that's not just a case of 95% positive. There's so much negative comes with the horse that you're getting slaughtered because everybody wants to be funny. The thing in life everybody wants to be and if you don't go with it then you're going to sit and point your fingers at everybody else. I'm going to try and pull them down. And that's why I've got so much respect for Gary because they take some shit but the things they're achieving is unbelievable. And they believe in themselves. It's because their pals are mirroring it enough. The stand up comedy man for anybody does it. It's tough. It's a tough gig. I've done it last year but it wasn't feeling it man because it's tough man. It's like I'm asking it. I was drained after I was doing it. I was totally drained because you're getting so much energy away and everybody, listen everybody can tell you they're all fucked in the head. They're all bonkers. Do you know what I mean? They're crazy. You'd have to be to storm the stage and crack jokes. But anybody does that the massive respect has to go to them. Anybody does it in life you've got to give them massive respect. Put yourself at the end creating something like I say it takes guts man no matter what anybody's doing if you're trying then what else can you do for me man a lot of people don't fulfil that potential that everybody can do something great man a lot of people don't know where they want to go in life that's it man go do myself man I talk all that positive piss mate I play in my bed and greet every night mate scream myself to sleep I mean I'm a fraud, I'm a fraud You're doing well mate, you're doing well many short stories aren't there? 25 short stories knocking at varying length you've already read that that's the shortest one that's like paging off the longest one is like 30 pages short stories but that's it I know man a short story normally they say it's between 5 and 10 pages but I can point out that you can tell the story on a paging off if it takes you 30 pages because you know reenact these stories that you're saying in one video one long film that's my goal like I'm saying man I'm picturing that to somebody sitting there but that's certainly somebody see that story about how many he's asked getting tattooed that's something you could use in a still game I'd love to be a write for something like that Is that not a director then? it comes into play as well with you the creative mindset you get like a script right I would write it and then the director would kind of take it and he would kind of put his own spin on it and get the actors to act it out and he'd say like write that that doesn't work go and try it this way spin it about say this instead of doing that no I mean what if we did this instead have you ever been to college or do you know? I went to college after I got that book published such as that last school when I was 16 I just fucking hated education just wasn't it for me so I just went right into working but then once I published that I thought right I'd like to try and like I was just winging it when I was writing that I didn't really have a clue what I was doing I just thought I'd just write it how I think it should be written and then after I published I thought I'd like to try and figure out how to do it properly man so I applied for college and I went to City of Glasgow College and done like professional writing skills it's called so I was just teaching you how to write basically how to write short stories how to write properly how to write for the telly how to write for the radio or not and then if I can improve my writing like big time I mean like show you all my bad habits and all the stuff you do and like it makes you better mate so that's what it's all about self improvement that's what I'm on that's what I'm into so but like you have got your head screwed on and like I say but you've no went to uni or college check that's what gave you that for a like a degree no people go get their degrees I've probably still never had a book out aye man I think like what I learned at college was just kind of teaching you the basics I think when you go to uni and study creative writing I think that I can kind of I don't know can I polish these veggies if you know what I mean what I've wrote is quite raw I mean there's no there's no education behind it if you know what I mean no higher education so it's just the way I thought it should be whereas if you go to uni they'll go to teach you this is how you should do it their rules aye like regulations but once I went to college man once you kind of learn the basics and then you learn wee bat about their kind of rules then you can kind of break them not I mean you can use that to me a stuff better which is good but you've got this right I say you're doing it mate you're doing it it's weird mate it's fucking weird man because when I started writing obviously I never thought I'd be sitting where I'm now within on my show do you know what I mean this is it mate that's it aye he's cracked it man you broke through mate your dreams have came reality tattoos in the ars and everything I was glad it's me it's been fucking it's been a brilliant couple of years mate I just hope it continues man I was saying to my moors like see if this all fucking came crashing down the moor I'd still be trough that what I've achieved not I mean I'd be fucking early man but I just want to keep it going as long as I can man aye that's all you're only selling yourself shortly I say you've this is only to start the journey for you and later say we spoke about it before the only person you can stop is yourself to get this book out another one another one and I hope the world's yours mate and that's a scary part and once you start actually seeing the results you start actually believing in yourself you start actually getting confident and then it just becomes natural that you're throwing out a book to get a book out is fucking unbelievable you know what I mean Jink are you getting a lot of the guys that are people behind you? I think so man I think people are cause it is cause I've no been uni in that I'm just a normal guy who's done it I mean I know some middle class person that loads of money behind them who can afford to just go to uni and then they're working right about it and then they know other people the publishers so that's how they get published and I'm just brass nectar and I've grafted them and that industry is all who you know in it to open all these doors and but your prime example that it doesn't matter just a vision and an idea to create and do it I hope people can see what I've done other writers and other people who are getting not back and stuff I hope we can see that if I can date my naked inspirational but you've got to keep chipping away you've got to keep chipping away who has an ink 404 ink? 404 ink they're called just a new publisher Fedinbrus the fact that I was just starting out and they were just starting out man it's a fucking match being having not I mean because fucking Nanny's new at the end not I mean just winding it just winding it it's the best thing today it's been brilliant man stay to Warren Heather the publishers man they've got the heat screw though and they know at the end they're fucking visionaries they've gone to the top so I think like I say when we done our homeless documentary we just went out and done it I said it man and the same again we've just been confirmed for the Johnny Boy Steel documentary The Gangster Man but that's becoming my pieces of the puzzle to create something better but sometimes I just like to roll my dice and it works it fucking works man and for us to achieve what we've done the last 12 months nothing but a vision we've just wind it and it's fucking working so when you meet people and it comes in and they say then it becomes more complicated I've made patience I want to get things done yesterday you know what I mean but so let's say the other things we're doing is taking more time and it's good to learn from these other people like I say I'm a hundred mile an hour I'll do it let's go I'll do it but we just need to I don't know that's partly for me to learn and grow as a person to listen to other people because I think I know I've written on a stall day so when we do know these things it is it's difficult but now things are taking time and things are becoming longer let's say you just wind that and it's worth but now how the other one has more planned the second book there's a lot harder to write because there's more pressure not what I mean so haven't it obviously live up to expectations thought it was going so I need to live up to that and I think right well that's the base level not what I mean it needs to be as well as that if not better so more pressure more people but the bigger following you get the more people it back you and Glyzga is a tough city mate but there's still a lot of back a few people there's still a lot of love so what I mean is it is it's a great city everybody's fucking crazy but I think every city's enough the same so I mean but then it meant like I say to come on today take your time appreciate that so how can people get this book? I mean so you can get it for my publisher's website www.forofrank.com you can get it for Amazon you can get it for Waterstones get it for any book you want Waterstone and Amazon and the next one how can we pre-order? it's the same you can pre-order on my publisher's website www.forofrank.com again or again on Amazon if you just type in Chris McQueen on Amazon you'll find it and let me retweet this you've got a copy Irvin Welsh get involved he's got a copy yeah he's got a copy aye it's the same mate you never know man when you stumble across this you know what I'm going to read that and uh Christy boy we've got a game on Sunday mate one no doubt Thomas Sheridan played a stinker the last time so you better get your finger out all jean listen mate everything you're doing massive respect for you I wish you not a bit of success for the future cheers big man all the best mate cheers brother thank you boom