Writers of the World! What are you working on?
Writers of the World! What are you working on?
Introduce yourself and list your published works or WIP that you wish to share!
I'm writing an action/adventure novel.
I'm currently writing a brand new original IP called 'The Simidolian'. I been working on this book since 2019-2023. My original work started when I first created a very rough novella called Roman: Dead or Alive. This slice of my literature would lead me to create a fully fledged novel sometime in November 2019. I have reached for Alpha since March 2022. Have began polishing the novel since January 2023. My goal is to continue polishing my novel, reach for 'Beta' and head to official release.
Some context is necessary for my literature, so here is what my novel is meant to be. My goal is to create a sci-fi space opera allegorical literature where it is a metaphor based on two unseen video games; Star Wars: 1313 and Prey 2. My theme will focus less on crime detectives. It will have a heavy emphasis on psychological thriller, a caper story, and espionage. Since this is meant to be a new IP, I wanted to make a complete origin story that shares little resemblance to The Mandalorian.
It follows a marine named Jake Avolsky who stole a bounty by eliminating the Hommodiel’s forces leader name Hommodiel Del Boili. He is selected to take part of a secretive guild called The Simidoian. For his final test, Jake would have to confront a splinter resistance called the Quadia Pather. The Pather Leader is planning to avenge the death of Del Boili. Worse, they are planning to awaken the Pathers cells from their slumber using 'The Awakening' device. Launch a rampant terrorist attack toward the United Galactic Frontier and possibly around the galaxy. Hence, 'The Awakening' will be the title of the first book. You won't see a title that states 'The Simidolian' or 'The Simidolian: The Awakening.' It's just called 'The Awakening'.
My goal for alpha is to begin the long chore editing the entire novel and gear up towards reaching for beta. Doing just that, I’m planning to have a Patreon page and ‘closed alpha’ Discord channel where fellow readers are free to support my work, offer me feedback. There's also a personal blog page I created to showcase my work. You can head on over if you like.
I wanted to avoid making a replay of what J. K. Rowling did to bringing the Harry Potter* to film. I decided that I would take the opposite approach. While I never intended to begin my career in full time writing, my actual interest is planning to be an indie game developer. My intention is to take all the resources I work on, translate it into its own interactive format as a medium.
That said. I do find it imperative that I need to keep myself up to date on most documents. This will include; but not limited to worldbuild, software documentation, chapters, etc. For the time being, I'll keep most of my material under wrapped for some time.
The Awakening will take place sometimes after an insurgent warfare, called the Kuaddi war. As a rookie, Jake Avolsky would have to complete his final test where he would have to sabotage the black market. He would need to hunt down a Quadia Pather leader and stop their reign of terror before the Pathers strike planet Earth. This is going to be the story I want to craft. It will be set in stone.
Oh, there will be no ‘baby Yoda' appearing in my literature. It will be skewed toward the adult audience.
Like a runner who's about to pick up its feet, I'll get a head start towards editing. Looking forward to beginning the long road ahead.
If you like to get an idea on the inspiration, I do recommend you read 'Tone and Inspiration' post for more details .Any ideas or feedback are welcome.
- For those that don't know, Nintendo of America was planning to acquire the rights of Harry Potter from J. K. Rowling. Due to an ongoing bid; Warner Brothers acquired the rights of Harry Potter. Harry Potter was meant to be made as a major motion picture. When licensing the film adaptation for video games, Warner Brothers gave the license to Electronic Arts. This will be the publisher that had a hand on both the book and films. Not Nintendo.
What kind of legal permissions do you need to publish a Star Wars universe story though?
I'm sorry, but I believed that you must be misunderstood about my project.
This title I'm working on is intended to be a brand new original IP, NOT a fan fiction IP. This project will not be affiliated with Walt Disney. I will be single handedly be responsible for create the narrative design as well as the world building from scratch.
Former journalist/creative non-fiction writer/editor who is now working on a high fantasy story, new to the genre. I started out trying to write a short story as a gift for someone. I ended up really enjoying working on it, and it kept getting bigger and more detailed, so I eventually decided to try actually writing a real book/series. Currently planning on three books, but my book three outline is already significantly longer than for the first two so I may end up with four.
Not entirely sure what I'll do with it when it's finished, leaning toward self-publishing but I'm still learning about my different options. I don't see myself making a living this way but I love the idea of having even just a few readers out there who like my stories and want to read them, so I'm going to give it a try.
Really interested in connecting with other writers for peer editing, feedback, etc. So hopefully this instance will be a good resource for that!
I'm working on a story in the FreeRIDErs setting, if anyone's ever heard of that.
Haven't heard of it.
It's an open universe setting hosted on shifti.org
I wrote a lot of terrible stories in it (that I've had retconned away), and have been rebooting my contributions to the series.
A couple years ago, one of the co-creators, a man named Robotech_Master, was killed in a Hit & Run... A emotionally devastating loss to the community to say the least. My little reboot project how now evolved into me trying not to let the flame die out as the other co-creator can't bring herself to touch the setting anymore (She still likes talking about it and is glad it's still being worked on, but, actually writing it.... a little too much for her at this time)
Anyway, it's on that website as I said, but to give you a run down.. it's about 500 years in the future when Mankind has recovered from an Apocalypse triggered by the end of the Oil Ages (Known as the Post-Oil Dark Ages), and taken to the stars. Although Earth (a terrible place to live as it's still in ruins and has a strict government, it's still a popular vacation spot for those who want to see the Human Homeworld) is still the seat of humanity's Government, though given how long it takes to travel between worlds they're not as able to enforce their policies on other worlds.
It's been discovered many worlds have a "Meta Material", minerals that go beyond what normal minerals are capable of and can seemingly do what those in previous eras would have considered magic. Little is known about these, outside of how to make use of them.
The main planet that FreeRIDErs takes place on is called "Zharus", and on Zharus there exist two meta materials, Sarium and Qubitite. Previously Zharus was a dumping ground for Earth's undesirables, an inhospitable desert planet with a metal shortage full of this stuff called Qubitite which ruins most equipment... That was until they realized they just weren't using this stuff correctly, once they realized how it worked it become a whole new ballgame. Zharus is now a post-scarcity utopia, especially now that this Q Technology has been invested in by Joe Steader, a billionaire who got rich recovering popculture media from Earth's past, restoring it to a format that can be enjoyed on devices of the time, and selling it as the "Latest thing". Joe's efforts have caused Zharus to develop a popculture known as "Twencen", where it's trendy to indulge in ideas, themes, and aesthetics of the 21st Century.
Got all that? breathes
Moving on, the series is named after the RIDEs, the Reticulated Intelligence Drive Extender. At one point there was a war over whether or not to share this technology with other worlds, in order to wage this war a new form of power armor well equipped for the Gondwanna (The largest continent on the planet) Desert, aka the Dry Ocean, nicknamed "The Billion Year Drought" due to its harshness, ran by a new form of AI caused by digitally recreating an animal brain and increasing its intelligence until it can act as a quantum super computer capable of interfacing with the human user directly, and performing commands as fast as the human can think of them.
RIDEs have a drawback, it turns out RIs aren't as adaptable as human ones are. So for a perfect sync, or "fuse", the human needs to be similar enough to the RIDE and changing the human is easier than changing the RIDE. So to accomplish this, RIDEs are equipped with fast acting nanites guided by the RI to make the humans more compatible. So you can tell who uses a RIDE and who doesn't, because those who do will typically have some animalistic feature (usually a tail or animal ears) created by their RIDE to aid with fusing.
Most of the series takes place in the aftermath of this conflict (Known as the Nextus-Sturmhaven War, named for the two regions that lead the conflict against one another), when RIDEs have entered civilian use after being sold as Military Surplus.
This has caused some interesting social changes, as RI due to being based on animal minds, do indeed have genders. Remember what I said about compatibility and having to change the user to match the RIDE? Well, I think you've read enough to know where this is going!
If one attempts a merge with a RIDE of the opposite gender, you will become that gender. Yes, that gender, not just that sex. RIDE Changes go pretty deep, and are capable of not only altering your body, but your very gender identity (to avoid dysphoria and to perfect the connection).
Due to the human body not being designed to be shifted about like this, and the fact that nanites have a cooldown period, major changes require at least three years before they can be properly reversed. So if you are genderbent by a RIDE, there's no going back for three years. The phenomenon of people using a RIDE of the opposite persuasion and becoming said persuasion has been affectionately dubbed "Crossriding", and forcing someone to Crossride is a crime known as "Genderjacking" which carries a different penalty depending on the city-state/polis. (Each polis has their own hat, Sturmhaven is a matriarchy, Nextus is a bureaucracy, Cape Nord is a patriarchy, Uplift is academic, Aloha is hedonistic, and so on and so forth)
Crossriding has lead to many aspects of gender roles and heteronormativity becoming things of the past, especially since due to RIDEs being military surplus and most soldiers in the military being men, female civilian RIDEs typically cost much less than male civilian RIDEs.. So for some, fulfilling the desire to join the RIDE community may come with some, necessary sacrifices to keep it affordable.
This is the story of the Planet Zharus, and all the shenanigans that result because of everything I just said.
And if it sounds interesting to you, the series can be read here - https://shifti.org/wiki/FreeRIDErs_(setting) - It's entirely non-profit and is open to anyone who wants to read or write in it. We also have a discord, well it's more for the shifti as a whole, but we have an FR discussion setting since it's one of our universes.
Sorry I didn't mean to go full "Used Car Salesman" on you, but there's a LOT of backstory to this one which makes it hard to explain in just a paragraph.
Anyway, I'm working on a prequel story to explain the origins of one of the antagonists I created.... Which has become its own novel at this point, I had finished it, but the ending didn't sit well with me or my test-reader so I'm redoing the final chapter.