HAPPY NEW YEAR, boys and girls! I hope y’all made it through 2020 without too many scars. As we slide into 2021’s DMs I’ve decided to try another little literary experiment: I’m going to post a novel chapter by chapter here on the wee blog this year. One chapter a week every Monday, starting next week.
It’s called Detained, a thriller with a dash (well, more than a dash) of sci-fi:
The employees and patrons of a remote rural bar get the shock of their lives when they’re unexpectedly and violently detained by a secretive military unit. The soldiers think this will be easy duty, but some of the people they’re detaining have unexpected skills … and when they fight back, things take a turn for the deadly — and the very, very weird.
I write a lot, and sometimes novels fall by the wayside because I either can’t figure out who would want to publish them or because they’re missing … something, usually quite mysterious. This is one of those novels.
I’ll be posting it here weekly, which will take us through to December. Each chapter will also include download links for PDF, MOBI, and EPUB files for that chapter. Then when the whole thing’s been posted I’ll make a complete novel version available as a complete PDF, MOBI, and EPUB download right here on the site for free. I hope you enjoy!
I think this is a cool idea. It worked for Andy Weir and his novel THE MARTIAN.
Very cool idea. I am taking notes 😉
A great idea. I learned about you when I found a copy of _Writing Without Rules_ at the Goodwill, which I enjoyed. I don’t think I have ever laughed more reading a book about writing. 🙂 But humor aside, the take away I carried from that book was something I already knew but it is always good to be reminded: if you wait until you are highly knowledgeable or an expert at something to jump into it then often you’ll never get started in the first place.
I have a similar problem with my own writing where it is often “missing … something, usually quite mysterious.” I hope you’ve been able to grasp the Djinn’s smoke with this story and that you found that mysterious something. I look forward to finding out!
Hey Ann – thanks for reading (both WWR and Detained)! I’m glad WWR resonated, I really felt like too many writers try to pretend to have discovered some secret, when we’re all really just constantly trying to figure it out. As for ‘Detained’ it’s one of those projects that I really like but just didn’t gel in commercial ‘can I sell this to someone’ terms, so this is a perfect way to do something fun with it. Let me know what you think when it’s done!