FIRST THINGS FIRST – A big cheer for everyone that participated in the second EVE Blog Banter this time around – I think we can all agree that it’s an immensely fun project and worthy of immense praise – so a big shout out to the venerable CK, the mack daddy of EVE Blogging and to everyone who took part in it again this month!

Moving forward…I decided I’d share a little bit of something I have been working on with you guys so I could get some feedback on it, but first allow me to give you some background so you understand the state it’s in at the moment…

In my final year of University, we worked on a “creative writing” module which was a lot of fun and gave me some nice insights into the way people read and write. We were all tasked with coming up with something and writing a 7,000 word “draft” either a full short story or part of a wider text. I chose the latter option as I had a few ideas and the one I began work on I felt could possibly become more than just 7,000 words. I got good feedback from my classes at the time which was a nice feeling as up until that point I hadn’t ever had the experience of having my writing read by “strangers” so to speak.

The text i’m showing you is currently the ROUGH outline of how I want the first chapter to pan out. This is pretty much the version I submitted in University and as such It’s not as fleshed out in parts as I would like so I’d ask you to bear that in mind. My main purpose for putting it on here is to gather some feedback and see if this story is something people other than myself are interested in haha! For example, I was pondering a prologue chapter before this but currently have held back as I think the storyline should probably be allowed to develop on its own with out prefixes from a preamble chapter. We shall see

The gist: It’s a nonsensical tale, of strange happenings and boggling events. If I were to list influences I would say Red Dwarf, Douglas Adams and Philip Pullman with a twist of Neil Gaiman.

So, a brief summary:

  • It’s in a very rough state.
  • It’s incomplete…this is not the full story.
  • It is subject to many changes….
  • There may be errors.
  • The formatting is a bit out due to my inexperience with HTML

    • Here it is. Tell me what you think with a comment or an email. I think I am going to eat a crumpet or two. Ta ta for now!

    EDIT: Formatted it better so it wasn’t a wall of text – it looked fine for me but there was an error somewhere which should be fixed now – Thanks Mynxee!