Work-in-progress meme

[mightyfastpig]

Snipped from vinnie_tesla:

Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

• Snapshot
• The Re-education of Mimi
• Dogs and Wolves
• Skin Man
• Gods of Selfless Love

Comments

[vinnie_tesla]

The Before Knives

[mightyfastpig]

Post-apocalyptic setting, many generations after our era ("the Before"). People who planned for the collapse of civilization decided to store vital information (basic metallurgy, mathematical formulas, germ theory, first aid, etc) by etching it on objects even the most ignorant people would not abandon or lose: blades made of nearly indestructible ceramics. So, the most effective weapons are also the source of knowledge.

This creates a class of warrior-scholars, their duty to rebuild civilization undermined by their own role as fighters.

[vinnie_tesla]

Hah! Do they generally see that as their duty? Or does that sort of emerge of the course of the story?

[mightyfastpig]

Hadn't thought it through that far. More like the conflict of trying to build a just society through the use of violence, a common theme in Westerns and post-apoc stories.