National Novel Writing Month idea

National Novel Writing Month is the month of November, and the goal is to write a novel at least 50,000 words long between November 1st and November 30th. I’ve attempted this feat several times, but this is the first time I’ve had a good, solid premise, and I believe I may actually finish this time. The story calls for research to be done, and because I have no idea how much it will take at the moment, the novel will be a general first draft.

Novel Idea - 2013.

My idea involves an ancient civilization (the first on Earth) whose technological advancement revolves around the improving of their domesticated animals, which were originally used to help humans do various work that needs to be done for a stationary survival standpoint. Instead of heading down the path that leads to humans create nonliving vehicles, humans spend their technological resource time on improving the animals that were already of use to them. This leads to an earlier appearance of the sciences of bioengineering, genetics, and biotechnology, as well as the creation of energy as animals produce it (no need for oil, uses metabolism system), discovered through scientific research, resulting in an almost entirely different planet.

With this different beginning to the technology of civilizations, the modern world would be very different; culturally, technologically, and sociologically. This book takes an alien’s/outsider’s perspective, describing the human race from an almost pure observational standpoint, relying on little communication. This leads to interesting conclusions, although they may be flawed, reached by an alien, or aliens, from another world as they observe us.