Wednesday, April 4, 2018

I Don't Know What I'm Writing, But

    I don't know what it is that I'm currently writing but it's moving along quickly with 9 chapters written since this weekend and most of it already edited. It's a story about a country that has fractures, with misogyny ruling. Girls are raised into their mid-teens by breeding communities and then auctioned to the highest bidder. They're raised and trained to be entirely submissive to males. The government is haphazardly run and disorganized. It seeks faction leaders to perform pay for hire executions and to get rid of undesirable troublemakers in general. These factions are basically left alone and are self-sustaining. The streets are a dangerous place. Even if you are aligned with a faction and have their protection it doesn't necessarily mean that you're safe. There are outsiders living in the woods practicing forgotten arts, like homeopathic and holistic medicine.
    Enter 15-year old Jade, a tempestuous redhead whose father is more than happy that she's finally reached the age where he can send her to auction and make her some other man's problem. The savage and cruel businessman, Mann, bids high on her, but a twenty-something gun-for-hire faction leader with an order of execution shows up and begins bidding against the evil brute. As the price rises for Jade, the drugged and seemingly docile redhead on the auction block, Archer executes the order, killing Mann in front of all the men gathered to bid on the girls. He reverts to being high bidder with Mann dead and wins her. But, before can even get her home, she catches him off guard, grabs his sawed off shotgun, and threatens to kill him. In the struggle that ensues, they both sustain damage. Archer realizes that what he bought for a steep price is not what he expected to take home.
     Jade is her own person- fighting the protocol of her training and trying to find her own place in a society that treats females little better than they treat their dogs. She refuses to submit to her master and though he's furious about that and constantly urged by the men in his compound to just put her down and take the loss, he's not quite ready to go that far. Her resistance to what she is expected to be unexpectedly draws him to her, even while she is repelling him continually and making him even angrier.
     Then, trying to pull herself together to return to the compound after being brutal raped in an alley a few days earlier, Jade overhears two men plotting against Archer. She finds herself angry about who the paid assassin is.
     Both Archer and Jade experience a gradual turning away from the way the world is at the present time toward the way they want to world to be- but whether or not they'll survive the often vicious battles that break out, the treachery of people they thought were friends, and attacks of a personal nature meant to drive a wedge between them once and for all, is unknown because the ground they call home is a constantly shifting landscape more difficult for two young people to navigate than anything either one of them could ever have imagined.
     I don't normally write this sort of harsh realism, so where this is coming from- I have no clue. After finishing The Clockmaker's Son, a cross genre horror/romance novel, this story idea rose like a phoenix from the ashes in my brain and has taken flight with no planning whatsoever. Where it's soaring to- I really have no idea at present. Whether it will ever be a novel is uncertain because it's harsh, brutal, realistic, crude, vulgar, voyeuristic, disturbing, raw...sort of like reality TV in the future when society more or less has reverted to the dark ages.
     We'll see what happens.
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