Working like this is the only way that makes sense, even if it is tricking myself.

So I've got this thing I'm working on. It's a novel, Science Fantasy, you know, with castles, vat-grown flesh, and pistols in it. Its working title is Clusterfuck, a Novel. It rose out of two distinct stacks of story corpses. The characters in both stacks resemble each other and some of the thematic stuff is similar enough that I'm mashing them together to see if they form a new entity with an actual plot.

Simultaneously I can't forget they're also a pile of story corpses: jagged beginnings...