Story draft part 2

Time to end the analysis paralysis and to put something out there. Better to fail because of what I create rather than fail by not creating at all, right? So here is the unedited first crappy draft of the beginning of my story (I haven’t even read it back myself yet, just pasted it here)….

Time for another “brain-dump” draft. (Part 1 is here if you want to start there.) You might have noticed I did not succeed in reaching my deadline. But it’s all good, having that deadline kept me pushing forwards when I might otherwise have rested or had a beer. Main reasons for not reaching my deadline were…

OK, the headline is kind of wrong, as obviously this is not my first ever plot. This is the first plot for this project. I have read that I need a “one line” description of my story before anything else. It should give a sense of “who”, “what”, and maybe “where”. Travis Connors, thought his new…

Once again, here is another couple thousand words of potentially terrible writing. It was fun just to download from my brain to the keyboard but I am fearful of what I might have produced. This has come from my head, to Scrivener, to here, without me even reading it back. Hopefully by the time I…