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Critique Request: Chapter One Of My Novel, WELLWATER
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Critique Request: Chapter One Of My Novel, WELLWATER

Hey folks,

I'm working on my third novel now, and it's been quite a while since I did this kind of writing (grad school really sucks up your time!), so I'd appreciate if anyone was interested in giving it a little look.

What I have here is a draft of Chapter One of my novel, working title WELLWATER. I've got some concerns about it, but I don't want to say them right off the bat and risk steering you into them, though I'd be glad to discuss them with anyone who has the time and interest to read through it.

In this chapter, a small-time gang on Jupter's moon Callisto is hired by a pair of assassins to get them onto a freighter carrying a person of interest; they'll do the rest. At the same time, a tech journalist living on Pioneer Station in the asteroid belt receives an encrypted message that dredges up old, radiation-burnt wounds from her past - sent from that person of interest.

Anyway, I'll leave it there; I'd love to get anyone's thoughts who is willing to offer them. Thanks!

u/IkujaKatsumaji — 18 hours ago
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Critique Request: Chapter One Of My Novel, WELLWATER

Hey folks,

I'm working on my third novel now, and it's been quite a while since I did this kind of writing (grad school really sucks up your time!), so I'd appreciate if anyone was interested in giving it a little look.

What I have here is a draft of Chapter One of my novel, working title WELLWATER. I've got some concerns about it, but I don't want to say them right off the bat and risk steering you into them, though I'd be glad to discuss them with anyone who has the time and interest to read through it.

In this chapter, a small-time gang on Jupter's moon Callisto is hired by a pair of assassins to get them onto a freighter carrying a person of interest; they'll do the rest. At the same time, a tech journalist living on Pioneer Station in the asteroid belt receives an encrypted message that dredges up old, radiation-burnt wounds from her past - sent from that person of interest.

Anyway, I'll leave it there; I'd love to get anyone's thoughts who is willing to offer them. Thanks!

u/IkujaKatsumaji — 24 hours ago
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A Hypothetical Question About Motivation Re: Mining Outer System Bodies

Hey folks,

I'm working on a little writing project, and I need to set some of it on a mining station on either Triton or Eris (long story as to why it needs to be one of those two) in the mid 2300s. The issue I'm running into is trying to come up with a justification for why a small to mid-sized mining company would send an expeditionary team, or a larger mining operation, out to a place that far out when they could presumably get much of the same stuff in the asteroid belt.

Now that brings up a point that I'm sure some of you would immediately say: they wouldn't do that. Assuming that we're operating on a technological level where a trip to Triton or Eris from Earth or Mars would take weeks to months, it would be much simpler to mine the asteroid belt.

Yep! I realize that. And yet, in this hypothetical, they did it anyway. The mining company sent at least an expeditionary team, and maybe even a whole mining operation, out to either Triton or Eris. Presumably, they must've had a good reason; what might it have been?

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