For a long time the idea of writing and movie making would have been impossible for me to even dream, because of my ADHD. Now that I am receiving proper instruction on how to live with ADHD however , I am working on my first novel, "Whither We Tend".
Simon Gates is a mild mannered insurance agent from Stratford, CT who is thrust into the Post-Trump America where civil war and the Resistance bubbles feverishly below the surface. When he has a car accident with a cop killer, he decides to take advantage of a new Army program designed to defend America's homeland with a volunteer force of small business owners.
The Hawk, an ex-military contractor with a gift for writing, just happens to write a plan that will address the state of an Un-American America and posts it to the dark web. Its a solution to end the game where the rich get richer and the poor hate everyone, and he begins by waking the monster that was the Militia movement and becomes The Resistance. That plan quickly morphs into a movement to restore our Nation to its former glory by tamping out the one thing that holds back the unification and militarization of the underserved in America, racism.
As the two men take mirroring paths to a waiting conflict, they accompany the reader to learn that "us and them" are not so different after all. It is not the enemy we know that causes us the most harm, but the friend we think we know that is most dangerous to us as Americans.
I should have it done by Thanksgiving and hope to have it for sale before too many months into 2021. Just as Lincoln wrote in his House Divided speech on June 16, 1858, "If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it."
By the state of the Union, I do hope we will find out if this novel is just an exercise in fiction or if it is in fact a premonition of the way we tend as a society.
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