Scott's World - where identity and personality are a matter of choice, and where the 'AI' Seneca navigates the narrow path of survival for humans on a world not their own. It is a world where choice is being taken out of human hands, by dint of ever more complex analytics, NOT intelligent AI. The real risk is that we'll end up failing to exercise our own judgment.
What is the 'time clock' that exerts pressure? Departure of the SunStorm?
Layers added for bootstrapping the setting.
0.1) Bootstrapping, setting, story type/plot, character type. Loosely organised notes to start making connections and record ideas. YES.
1) 1 sentence summary: A man bypassed by life must decide between human failure or inhuman success.
2) Paragraph: PLOT
Harvi R, a junior data scientist, board gamer and urban explorer is isolated in his team, and a bit of an outsider. The isolation goe futhurer when one of his gaming friends decides to get edited. present a figure who si out of step. Then The indicdnet on station 19. The nature of the incident is critical - the victim has had his decision support algorithms trashed - he was 'decision blind' - and whilst others investigate the Murder, Harvi R is send to look at the data crimes. Is the incident the murder of an edited? What draws him in through the murder?
Investigation at station 19. Discover that the murder was suicide - something else killed him but what? This puts the whole of station 19 under suspicion.
Seneca fake recall of implantes - but Harvi knows that this is it some other crisis? An attempt to kill Harvi?
Resolutions, revelation of the frond garden, crime solved. the plants will grow, a truce with SENECA, but this was Seneca's plan all along. The frond garden is an area outside station 19, some distance away, where they have been cultivated small genetically modified creatures to survive on the surface of Procyon. They have progressed beyond slime, and have moved on to simple plants.
3) Characters
0.2) Notes on setting - basic 'why is it here, what are its problems?': Procyon - a constricted colony with the Sunstorm in orbit above on 'Scott's World'. SENECA runs the colony - an AI designed to address the issue of engineering failure (see Deep Background) and humans are willingly being edited to enhance stability. Seneca deems that the escape route offered by the Sunstorm to be too great a distortion and it is decided that the ship should leave. Editing accelerates - what is the point of resisting? Escape valve is Interchange - the culture 'hangs' around the individual's free expression in their personal simulated space. Minimises use of resources on non-essentials, and highlights the utilitarian nature of the real colony.
4) Expand each sentence in the summary paragraph to a full paragraph (one-page synopsis) HERE
5) One-pager for each character
0.3) Flesh out history, culture and current politics
6) One-page synopsis to a four-page synopsis
7) Expand Characters into fully-fledged people - get to know them!
0.4) Write the biographical narrative of the setting - get to know it! Lockdown its internal geography make sure it needs the locations you need for your story and that the place makes internal sense.
8) List all the scenes needed
9) Expanded narrative description of the story - more detail on each scene
10) First draft
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