Yeah, like mid 2021, I was watching the 100th isekai with orcs, goblin, spells, levels, you know what I'm talking about; the shadow of Tolkien is fucking inescapable.
I was, idk, a mix between tired and apathetic after seeing the same type of fantasy, over and over;
So I hop on discord, as you do, I was lamenting, like a ghost, and one of my friends hit my with the classic "Then make something new" and my soul became word, that word was "Bet."
So I started writing shit, I also wanted to practice my english, so I started writing in english.
One thing led to another, and I was watching some Ork memes from WH40K, and inspiration struck me like a hammer a toddler;
"Everyone is an Ork."
At the same time I was listening to an audiobook for All Tomorrow and developed an interest in speculative evolution.
I mixed the two things together, like hard alcohol and weed.
And I just turned off my brain, and let my hands do their thing.
Then. And only then. I realized that I need feedback because English is not my first language;
I lack so much soft knowledge about this language that It pisses me off.
So if you could help me that would be much appreciated.
Be as critical as you can, poke every single hole that you can, in fact, bring a sledgehammer, If this shit doesn't stand on its own It deserves to fucking die.
Oh, and the cover is a drawing of a fuzzy character that I had in mind, If this shit works amma publish something about it, I commissioned it from u/GheiBoiAfiocionado
This biography of personal philosophy was started when I was inebriated, the middle bit was done when enlightened and the ending wrote itself.
I've dipped in and out of this between life, work, parenting, writing a fiction novel or two, training and healing along the whole way. These are the words that come to me about, well, everything; the way the world works and indeed doesn't work in my eyes. Whether it will work in the end remains to be seen but indeed during the two years I've been writing this the world has changed, both for the better and the worse. Wars, murder, politics, religious hysteria and mass hate has been balanced by an increase in enlightenment, acceptance of alternative therapies and widespread use of 'mindfulness' and the will for peace. In this time societies have stretched to the limits of depravity and saintliness and I presume will eventually break or twang back to an uncomfortable medium. Whilst it has been horrible to watch at times I have to admit that these extremes are necessary for a population to understand how far it can and should go, like a small child who tests at being good and bad to see it's parents reactions before settling into a balanced middle ground.
The question there is, what are the parents like? Well, as I see it, Dad's a bit of a devil and Mum's an angel so I'm sure the kid will turn out alright in the end.