My goal is to fail faster. Feel free to share your thoughts of this project with me. Here is the source markdown that was used to generate these pdfs.
This might become my first complete novel. Or at least the first draft of one. I discovery write and so this can be a challenge. I've decided to try out an excercise recomended to me years ago. Write the full thing as a first draft. Then set it down and write something new.
The grain of this story came to me while driving alone from dawn to dusk. After having had done that for the two previous days prior. I did one full pass and discovered basic plot, themes, and some core relationships. Then I started growing detail with a second pass. All just a fantasy in my head to pass the time. A week later I started writing. I hope to be done by the end of October.
We'll see if that happens. I hope it does. I truly think this story is a great fit for this marathon. It could help me grow into someone who knows they can write a novel.
Gia has secrets. Some of which she knows are true. Others she's not so sure. It can be hard to balance trying to defend nature and start a family. Fail to do the former and all is lost. Lose the latter and what's the point. This can be further complicated by experiencing life with schizotypal. And that recently a fungus from the future has informed her that climate change is much more dire than human models predict.
The following are the first drafts of the chapters as they are written. If you found this feel free to read them. Please don't share your thoughts with me until the exercise has concluded.
These first drafts are filled with grammer, tense, and word substitution errors. You might come across sentences that require a bit of decoding. Sometimes "could" is written where "couldn't" was meant. Fixing these things breaks my discovery writing loop, probably, so I'm not going to. Best of luck. And thank you for reading.