FUTURE

I Have Started a New Novel Project

I have again started writing a new novel. It is not the first and probably not the last novel project I dare this year.

Starting a new writing project that is as extensive as writing a novel is relatively easy. It is more difficult to carry it out as I wish, with daily writing sessions of at least 3000 words.

It requires, among other things, that I have clear ideas and a fairly clear plan for the course of action. But perhaps most importantly, I have clear thoughts about the narrator’s voice that will guide the reader through the novel.

But now, as I said, I venture out on such extensive creative writing work again, and then we’ll see if it works out.

I want to put the story into a larger context, where I place people and events in an existential context and bring out the big questions in life that I think are important to almost every human being.

My main focus in this novel is nevertheless to tell a story about people who are in the middle of a chaos, and who seek direction and answers where they see opportunities to find truth.

Below is a draft prologue and chapter 1. The working title for the project is:

The Last Human in the Milky Way

Text & photos © Øivind H. Solheim , @oivind47, hiker, teacher, author of novels, poetry, articles, essays, short fiction and experimental writing. [email protected]