Hey everyone, I really appreciate all the follows and votes for my mediocre story! I've also really enjoyed everything I've read so far on the site since joining. There is a wealth of creativity here and it's really cool. It seems like this site may actually do the trick and get me to finish something after all! Now I'm second guessing whether or not I should have led with a different story which I have developed a bit more and has some more interesting story arcs, rather than this one that may ride the line of being stereotypical or cliché. I guess it just means I need to finish this one faster, and then also try to generate interest through the characters' idiosyncrasies.
In any case, please don't hesitate to provide grammatical or editorial feedback if you see it! Nothing that I'm publishing is in any kind of finished state, and I have no problem with criticism.
Also, I feel that I need to re-do my cover, and possibly change the title. I don't think I've published enough for readers to have a sense of what the title should be, but if anything occurs to you, I'm happy to hear it.
In case you're interested, the next story to publish (of which I do have a full first draft of a screenplay written already) will be a surreal story of magic and science set in the near future:
Marcus is obsessed with the impossible goal of absorbing every bit of human knowledge. As he progresses further in his mission, he finds that reality appears to be taunting him by changing the rules of the game as his world breaks down into an unpredictable entanglement of magic and irrationality. Forest gnomes, sentient robots, murder investigations, and alternate dimensions intersect in this small rural town -- and yet the townspeople themselves may be even more difficult to understand.
