The Farm - A VERY Rough Draft

Hi everyone,

First off, I must apologize profusely. Living where I do I cannot expect to import comics or movies to share since customs will almost certainly pick them up at the border, I cannot draw or paint, and in general I share very little with the FP community.

I'm sorry.

With that said however, I would like to offer up this sample of a first draft of a story I started writing a few days ago.

Now some of you are going to look at the attached PDF and say, "A few days ago? WTF?".

I was ill, smacked around a bit by a relatively minor viral infection. It happens, and the upside of it happening is that while my body feels like shit, my mind just flows...

I sat down at my computer and starting writing. I wasn't sure what I was writing, where it was going, who'd be the hero in the end and who the villain, I just wrote, and wrote, took a nap or two, drank a lot of soup, and wrote.

Unfortunately my body has overcome the viral infection, and I've spent about an hour now staring at this story without a continuing thought in my head. I don't know when I'll continue it, or if it will ever get finished, but in the interests of sharing with the community that has freely shared so much with me, I present the first unfinished draft of, The Farm.

Hopefully, even if I never finish it, someone else may be inspired.

P.S. I also hope the PDF-X format I printed to file has brought across the fonts that I used.

I just had to edit this to explain that inspired bit. I'm not a writer. I try to be, but when I re-read through anything I've written (that isn't technical) it all just seems to fall flat, have no tone, no soul. What I meant by inspiring others was that even when I can't write anything normally, I can write something when I'm sick, and feeling like shit. If you can't write normally, but you feel like there is a story inside you, don't put it off next time you're laying in bed crook.

Get up, sit in front of your computer, with a white russian if you like :), and just write.

It may be, like I think my own writing to be, shite, but if you get up and at least try then maybe you'll have a best-seller on your hands.

If you don't try then you will definitely never get published.

(Damn it, I still sound like an egotistical cunt.)