1.25-Jan

Take a swing at trying to write an opening chapter
(Do this on the lunar calendar)

Write chapter 1

Every chapter of celestial dispatch has some text and some image to break up text

SERIALIZE THE NARRATIVE

**500 words - plus cliffhanger, see you next month. **

begin the beginning

Merc had become more enamored of technology than magic. The clever machining and ingenuity of his tribesman and later fellow craftsmen often equalled the effect of a spell - with arguably less work.

To find a ley line, observe phases of moon, select crystals and tap into the cosmic warp and wuft of being and potentiality - just to make a small building fly across a lake or ocean seemed excessive, in comparison to an easily built barge, driven by a diesel outboard motor. And it was certainly less conspicuous, he reflected, as he cruised along an outlying bay in Lake Erie.