I'm very slowly coming back around to having a desire to write more. Procrastination gets the best of me at times, my ADHD other times, and my Depression has its moments. But I keep a desire to write a few stories of my own nevertheless.
Right now, I'm working on my first novella that feels like it's gonna become a novel. But we shall see. Especially since I'm thinking most of this up in the moments I have and haven't gotten the things I like written down hardly enough. That being said, I'm learning continually to allow myself to have this Zero Draft and come back weeks later and declutter the passages, spruce it up, and expand on it in my First Rough Draft.
It's taken me quite some time to pin down the bigger elements of the story, but this is what I've got as a WIP summary.
What if plants were weaponized by a group of people that wanted to 'restart' civilization and bring a better balance of nature and humanoids? Would these people be considered bio-terrorists? Are they all bad people? Why go to such great lengths of destruction and elimination of a large group of people? Was there a better way to approach this 'rebalancing '?
Some Moral Reasoning for the 'deranged' bio-scientist and those who follow him.
He sees the nation (and perhaps the world) full of corruption, deceit, separation from nature, and sterilization of what once was in regards of living side by side with nature. Discontentment with the benefits of nature and the animals that live within it. And so he has reasoned that his cursing or mutation of the plants and animals to do his bidding more or less, as a way of cleansing the world. A cleansing of the horrific, (….))) . With the hopes that this will bring nature back to a higher or equal positioning of power of domain that of its counterpart, the humanoid.
I'm planning out a similar character! They see humanity as out of control and an increasing affront to nature, so they're looking to 'cleanse' or reset it. Yet he's a pacifist monk, by background.
Yep, same...
On a separate note... how long is y'alls stuff?
I'm at 107k and still pretty early in my fic. I'm writing it for the sake of getting it out of my head, and the virtue of being so sprawling is what holds my interest, but it does add a sort of... existential anxiety, especially when I get stuck (or even obsessed with) reworking a tiny part.