aquagaze

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31 / woebegone wanderer /
kitchen nightmare /
melancholy's echo chamber /
geek of all trades /
alleged educator



I wrote something. It’s the longest single continuous piece of fiction I’ve written, probably ever.

What you’re — hopefully — about to read, is the result of a search for a new “project” to work on in my free time. It’s a search that started once it became clear that a certain billionaire’s vision of his favorite website’s future was not going to ascertain the continued existence of my current main creative outlet — an attempt to elevate the humble art of online role-playing into the kind of medium that can sustain an ambitious, sprawling narrative.

Despite the role-playing community at one point definitely being big enough to allow for such a bonkers idea to succeed, Twitter has never been a particularly ideal outlet for creative writing of any kind. Moving on from it means I’m now in a situation where I have to learn how to convey my ideas in a more conventional way. I don’t have a lot of experience writing prose, and I don’t really have the ambition to be an author or literature. I think of my writing as a means to an end, a way to get a story across in a more or less cohesive or structured fashion. Keep that in mind while reading.

As to how this story will continue, I don’t know. I like collaborative writing, and some friends have expressed an interest in helping me out so we might do that on a Discord server or something. If that doesn’t work out, I might try to continue it on my own, as some kind of web novel. Who knows where it might end up?

Anyway, I call it The Lost and the Found. Here’s its prologue. Enjoy.

If you took the time to read this, please let me know what you thought! Sharing and feedback are always greatly appreciated.


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