Aspiring young Colorado writer John Simmers is angry because he found true love.

John tells us he started creating a novel of a lifetime when the girl he now dates came along.

"I was in a beautifully dark mood, the kind of darkness that inspires true art," John said. "Creativity needs anger, and anger needs loneliness. In that sense, love is really a dead end."

John met the young girl over the internet in a chat room. She's 21, he 25, and she's too naive to understand his storytelling. "My novel is too depressing, I can't even talk to her about it. Actually, now the book seems kind of silly. But I was sure I was on to something big, bigger than life. She's all about life though."

We met John's girlfriend, Susan, at the mall. She says she liked John because of his "outlandish" thinking, but she also said she likes to have good old party fun most of the time "not thinking too heavy." Susan told us she was amused when John blamed her for his writer's block. "If he was a true writer, like, I don't know, other true writers who are dead now, then why would he hang out in chat rooms like hot tub or cyber party?"

John told Susan she had to dump him, but so far Susan rejected his idea.

John says Susan told him "It's not about you," but he can't stop taking it personal. "If it's not about me, then why does she keep dating me? Our love, while temporarily healthy from the outside, is destroying what might be the biggest thing of my life – the novel of a generation, perhaps."

By FakeToday correspondent Philipp Lenssen (3/14/2005).