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Thresholder: National Novel Writing Month 2022
🕑 Added 2022-11-02 16:45:19 +0000 UTCThis is Perry's third world, or fourth if you count Earth. In the first, there was Richter, a brilliant scientist who gave Perry a working suit of power armor before dying to an attack by an adversary that seemed to come from nowhere. In the second world, he became a knight fighting in a war against a callous enemy. There are others like him, thresholders, always in opposition, and it's becoming clear to Perry that this is going to be his way of life, hopping from world to world. Now he finds himself in a place that's doing its best impression of Victorian London with the serial numbers filed off, with a new enemy that will test all the knowledge and power he's accumulated so far.
I have a long and abiding love of National Novel Writing Month, but have been in the midst of serials for a long time now, and haven't had a chance to do it since ~2017 when I finished writing The Dark Wizard of Donkerk. Well, this is the year that I come back to NaNo, and because I think it's doable, I'll be writing something new alongside This Used to be About Dungeons. This will also be a part of RoyalRoad's Writathon. I won't be making more posts about Thresholder until it's finished, or maybe at some significant plot milestone, but it will be streamed daily(ish) on Twitch and the Google Doc will be publicly available for now. Be warned that if it turns out good, or good enough, it's likely to end up on Kindle Unlimited or another exclusive platform where it can make money, but until then it'll be freely available. Also be warned that I'm doing no editing whatsoever, as is NaNo tradition, posting chapters without so much as reading over what I wrote.
GDocs Link (where it's written)
RoyalRoad (updated on a per-chapter basis, short 2K word chunks)
Twitch (will be streaming most days around 11AM Central)
Comments
fbt
wow, thanks for mentioning it; I didn't know about that one. I just started it, and I really like it! I have a horrible track record of deeply offending authors (Niven, Zelazny, Bradbury, the couple that did the Liaden books, etc) by saying I loved their first works most, but...it does seem to be a pattern with me. It's a bit less polished, sure, but it has that something special to it that really makes it sing.
giom
Talking about the Dark Wizard of Donkerk, do you plan on publishing it? It's one of my favorite writing of yours and it's the one story of yours I always recommend getting into first because it's short, sweet and tight.
