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 editing the first draft of my hardish sci-fi novel.
It's the story of an arguably failed attempt to colonise another solar system, that falls into factionalism and civil war thanks to a couple of unexpected discoveries, with themes including the dangers of populism and misinformation.
I'm using Evie (a AI voice app) to read the draft back to me which I've found really useful for catching all the silly little typos that my dyslexic mind just can't see.
I've also started properly worldbuilding the world now that the first draft is complete (if I started this earlier I would probably have used it to procrastinate and not actually get the draft done!). I'm using the Notion personal wiki app for it and I'm pretty impressed by it too.
I'm off work next week and have a fancy new laptop so looking forward to getting a good bit of work done then.
An ingenious way to aid in your writing journey and a benefit psychologically, as having something that you wrote read out loud, via AI or human voice, can have a positive effect on your brain. It becomes better associated in reality by doing so. =)
Oh, this sounds like an exciting read! My brain connected it to being similar to The Expanse in regards to " factionalism and civil war thanks to a couple of unexpected discoveries." I love that series! And I hope you don't take it as there isn't enough room for your story in the genre because of it. I want to read your first chapter! =D
Oh my goodness. Are you me!? Hahaha. I've gone back and forth with wanting to build out the world to have a framework to use as a guide, to "no, no. I need to just write the first five or so pages before then. I need characters and a starting point before the world and what comes with it." That sure didn't stop me from looking for inspiration though hahaha.
I'm looking forward to hearing a bit of how you progressed over time. Keep at it. A wise person once said, "Do, or do not. There is no try."