This could be the start of something great, something fantastic, something to make our mums proud, something amazing. Or simply, and in all the most likely scenarios, it could end up being another subject matter for our friends to use in order to take the piss out of us.
We are about to embark on a one year, one month project (the one year project has been done too many times) to write one whole, 200+ page, sci-fi novel; self publish it and raise £600 in the process. Why £600? We don’t know. It seemed like a reasonable and almost achievable amount. £600 would perhaps pay for relaxing a weekend away which we will surely need to recover from the exhaustion of being so creative for a whole year (and a month).
The additional challenges to this already challenging challenge are as follows:
- The book will be written by two novice authors who both have full time jobs
- Neither of us have any real knowledge or manic interest in sci-fi/ fantasy books or films
- We currently don’t know the difference between these two genres
- Both of us get bored easily.
- We embarked on this journey not out of a desperate need to become successful writers, but mainly as a stubborn attempt to prove one of our mutual friends wrong.
Day one of our big exciting adventure and we have already happened upon a name - "Kezra". We also have a theme - "Space Pirates". Exactly. You can see where this is (not?) going… join us and maybe provide us with some pointers. I fear we will need them…
