Writing our first Sci-fi novel from scratch with no idea how, mainly to prove a point continues...
We went to the only place we could think of to begin our journey with a serious and meaningful discussion about Kezra and the Space Pirates.
In hindsight, the pub we went to perhaps wasn’t the best place, but still after only 10 minutes we had a seat, two drinks, a pad of paper, a pen and a sticky table to help our plot brainstorm. 15 minutes in, the centre of the pad had a small bubble on it containing the words “Space pirates”; coming from this bubble was an arrow leading to the word “plot” followed by “?”.
Despite this somewhat rocky start, a mere one hour into our meeting we had the skeleton of a semi-plausible (space pirate) story set. We now have a sister character and two warring factions of space society. There’s a whole page (!) dedicated to plot points which we think we’ll use as chapters.
We’ve decided to now split up the work. One of us will begin to introduce the Kezra character and the other will work on the sister. We plan to then re-group, swap ideas and discuss our next steps.
In all honesty we left the pub feeling a bit smug. So far it’s been a doddle… all we have to do now is start writing….
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