The Birth of a Story
For those of you who’ve been following the Social Disorder podcast lately, you’ll already know about the Dystopian Fantasy I’ve been writing for the past 8 months. But, if you haven’t been, I’ll take a moment to catch you up!
Through the medium of podcasting, I have been put in contact with so many different and amazing people and their ideas! It was through this process that I found myself originally drawn to authorship at all.
Between 2023 and 2024, I wrote two philosophical treatise that directly explored many of the ideas I had been exposing myself to through podcasting and its necessary research on a plethora of subjects.
Though I’m proud of both of them — Consciousness, Reality & Purpose as well as Layers of Truth — I came to the conclusion that speaking about big ideas and meta truths directly isn’t the best way to present them to a large audience. Not everyone has the palette for wordy philosophy, and that’s understandable. It’s dense and difficult to process.
What I noticed when considering this was that many of the great cultural philosophers of the west — people like Nietzsche, Jung, Chesterton, Tolkien, Lewis, Huxley, and Orwell — made their greatest contributions to society not from their treatise (speaking at the reader) but from their great works of fiction!
Because making a philosophical statement invites argument in a way that presenting the same ideas in story form does not!
I made up my mind, after inspiration from one of my own favorite stories, to set out creating my own epic work of fiction!
Thus, Fractures was born!
Archetypal Truth
In the proceeding 8 months, I planned, structured, and wrote the first volume in what will become a 4 book series!
Fractures in Love is a 160,000+ word rollercoaster of dystopian fantasy that will lead the reader through many of the societal cruxes we’ve all been exploring, but set in a fictional world full of mystery, deceit, and peril.
Through the story of a 12 year old girl, born into slavery, you will run headlong into concepts like:
Freedom
Tyranny
Morality
Murder
Trolly Problems
Racial Divides
The Archetypal Feminine
The Archetypal Masculine
Chaos & Order
Passion & Control
The Kickstarter Starts TODAY!
Now that the writing is done, that last thing necessary to make this story happen is editing and publishing it!
Thankfully, in the internet age we live in, I don’t need to go through a giant publishing house and have my rights to the intellectual property held ransom. But, with the availability of self-publishing comes personal cost that I need to cover on my own. (Editing especially is more costly than you may think!)
That’s why I’ve set up a Kickstarter to help fund my goal of completing this book to the highest of industry standards! What Kickstarter is is a crowd funding platform where people can not only help to fund a project, but where they get special rewards for doing so!
In this case, I’m talking about signed editions, special editions, and more!
The 3 Week Campaign goes live TODAY at 4pm EST! (That’s 2pm for all my Mountain Time listeners)
Please, do me a favor and go to the link below to check out the campaign and help me reach the goal! I am confident that you will love all the time and effort poured into these special editions and add-ons!
CLICK HERE FOR THE KICKSTARTER!
Thank you for all the support over the years!
We’ll see you soon over on the Social Disorder Podcast!
~ Drew Weatherhead