Homo Luminous : Cut Materials from Chapter 1
For your reading pleasure, here is a section of back story that I removed from Chapter 1.
"Why cut it," you ask? Well, the first draft of Homo Luminous was running about 130K words, for one thing. Another was that this was WAY too much back story to start the novel. I wanted to drop you, faithful reader, into the action more quickly. So, as Steven King puts it, "You have to kill your darling."
This section met the ax earlier in the revision process. I was, and still am unable to kill it completely, so it rises again her, as an example of what not to start a novel with.
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