Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-36393004-20181007040949/@comment-36393004-20181008210045

DrBobSmith wrote: Let's review our assumptions:


 * A large number of asteroids varying in yield between the Chelyabinsk and Tunguska events shoots up the planet. The results are rather like many random air burst nukes, lots of scorched Earth and probably damaged marine life as well.
 * There's no radiation but large sections of the country, including the protagonist's home town, are flattened.
 * The protagonist used to live in farming country, with corn fields.

If the world just ended and I am going to be struggling for survival and all my buddies are preppers with firepower to spare, I know exactly what I would do. I'd go and take nearly uninhabited farmland. Why not? You'll need room to grow. Better to hold it now when everything is disorganized. That way you can make yourself into the king of Podunk County, Alabama. Heck, you might even take some people as slaves to work the land.

Our protagonist may have been chased off his own farm. He may encounter other would be kings along the way. He lived in what "used to be" a corn field but isn't used for farm land anymore. His family wasn't preppers and he didn't know anyone that was. He set out looking for family but hasn't found any, he had been taught a lot of things but not how to grow his own food. He had in-fact been run out of town and I will get to that. I am glad you brought it up. It's the main reason he doesn't like talking about his brother. I'm glad you're getting into this though Bob.