EVERGREEN: Project Overview

I'm working on a couple of fiction projects at the moment, and I've decided that the time has come to start sharing and potentially workshopping them a bit.

The first project is tentatively titled "Evergreen," though I'm 99% sure that's going to change as I get further into it. I'm about 80 pages deep so far with most of the main story outlined. My biggest motivation for sharing is for funsies and mild accountability purposes. I also need to get used to the idea that the endgame of writing a story is that people should eventually read that story and provide feedback. That's a terrifying thought and it provokes mucho anxiety. So, fuck it. Full speed ahead.

EVERGREEN: THE ELEVATOR PITCH

A Post-Apocalyptic/Weird Western story that's roughly 1/3 George Miller, 1/3 Rio Bravo, and 1/3 Trailer Park Boys mixed together in a discarded Big Gulp cup and hurled against a brick wall. Serve at room temperature.

EVERGREE: Sypnosis found on the back of a hypothetical paperback:

After two decades of roaming, robbing, and reaving across the wild wilderness that was once the American Midwest, Rochelle Dellacourt has finally stumbled ass-backwards into something resembling a settled life. The former outlaw has become the elected Sheriff of an isolated pot farming commune known as Evergreen. She'll have to set aside her moonshine jug and draw on every bloody lesson from her shady past when the seemingly random murder of a drifter leads to crazed road gangsters, a rogue military detachment, and a sinister post-human terrorist descending upon her little backwater town. They're all searching for a legendary stash of long lost Old World tech. Rochelle's ragtag militia of outcasts, mutants, and burnouts must defend their home against long odds; and a bad situation becomes exponentially worse when the diabolic cult leader known as The Diesel Witch descends from the Ozark Mountains with a fist full of secrets to claim Evergreen for herself. Rochelle's going to have to face down a lot of monsters, including the one in the mirror, to save her quirky little adopted home. That is, if it's even worth saving at all...

Chapter One to follow.