Crappy first draft

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). I have to finish something by the end of the week. It’s clear I won’t have a novel by then, but I can see where I get.

If nothing else, you will be able to see your writing is so much better than mine 🙂

Working title is “Peak Magic: The Source”.

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