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Happy Koloss Head-Munching Day!
🕑 Added 2019-12-20 03:45:37 +0000 UTCHappy Koloss Head-Munching Day everyone!
For those who are unaware, Koloss Head-Munching Day is just a fun name (based on the blue colored monsters named Koloss in the Mistborn books) that is used to refer to Brandon Sanderson's birthday. Brandon Sanderson is an amazing Fantasy author who I'm a huge fan of and on his birthday, he releases his "State of the Sanderson" post in which he details what he's done in the past year and what he's planning for the next year.
I've discussed Sanderson earlier today on my Discord and to summarize things, I'm a huge fan and he's the reason I started writing because of something I heard him say which goes something like this :
"If someone says they play basketball with their friends, you don't ask them if they plan on getting into the NBA. They do an activity they enjoy, they have fun, it's good for the body and mind and that's it. If people enjoy writing, then people shouldn't ask "will you get published?" or "will you make a living out of it", they should just say "good for you" and drop the pressure of it being good/sellable as long as it's good for the body/mind and the person is enjoying the act of writing"
That way of thinking made me realize that I do have a story in my mind and it could be fun to write it without having to think of "will it ever be good enough to be published" or any of the other stuff that makes people not write books. So I started writing and I really enjoyed doing that, it's a LOT of fun to write.
The story I want to write is huge and I've been working on it for over a year now. Somewhere along the way I got stuck and I decided to change things a bit by free writing a different story that I improvised with no idea where I was going. I wrote a couple of chapters and liked it quite a bit, then I forgot about it for 6 months. Earlier this month, I found it again and decided to finish the story. I wrote an actual plot for it, and wrote two more chapters (getting it about halfway through the plot I wrote) then fixed the first two to match where I was going with it.
I decided to release that story here for any who may find it interesting. The story is called Kill the Human and is YA (Young Adult) science-fiction and doesn't take itself seriously at all. It is also very different from the other novel I've been writing (which is definitely not YA, I might release a sample chapter of that at some point if there is interest)
Disclaimer: this is the first rough draft so it may not be any good or may be hard to read because of the style and pacing. The narrative style in this is also very special because of the epistolary format I used (written as if it were transcripts from audio recording rather than a narrator telling a story).
If you enjoy reading books then maybe you'll like this. Maybe you'll read it and love it, maybe you'll read a few pages and drop it, or maybe you'll ignore this post 'cause you don't care. Either way, I hope it makes at least someone laugh or smile :)
Comments are welcome and appreciated!
Update: Oups, I forgot to include the first scene of chapter 5 when I compiled it into the docx! I've updated the attachment to include all the scenes now, sorry about that. I've also compiled it into an epub for those who prefer that format (which I guess is most people who read books).
Happy Koloss Head-Munching Day,
KaKaRoTo
