"I'm working on a novel, or at least words in a document that vaguely resembles a novel"
-me

An Untitled novel is a free to read and distribute hobby project by me, who has absolutely zero experience writing fiction of any kind. This download contains the prologue and first 33 chapters, which are sort of a self contained short story in themselves and about half of the first "book" (book in quotes since I'm just going chapter by chapter in blog fashion instead of doing it the more traditional way).

If you downloaded this strait from my website then obviously you know where to find new chapters. If you found this on some place like Archive.org or Postman's I2P tracker you can always check back later, I'll upload the next big chunk of chapters once I've finished proofreading them. If you found this elsewhere or want chapter by chapter updates I have a feed you can follow in multiple ways:

RSS: https://untitlednovel.dns7.top/index.xml
Nostr: npub1ypad9gxqv2m8376r43xexlzvqr4j6gkwyrlr2dy4gpea8e7v57cqcpktmx
Activity Pub: https://mastodon.social/@untitlednovel
AT Proto (BlueSky): @untitlednovel.bsky.social

You can also just bookmark https://untitlednovel.dns7.top/contents/ if you'd like.

Anyway, hope you enjoy :)

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As for the files, each chapter is shared as a text document, though a couple will reference image files using brackets that I stashed away in the "images" folder. Once I actually finish the first "book" I'll probably share it in epub, pdf, and mobi formats, but for now sharing each .md file I have for hugo as text documents was easier.

A couple of pro tips for reading text files:

1) If text gets cut off make sure that your text editor has "wrap text" enabled.

2) If you'd like to have it read by a robot voice you can use a few different options. Apps like Librera and TTSUtils on Android can both read it or export an audio file, Firefox (and forks) on PC in speed reader mode or any browser with the Read Aloud plugin can open the text files and read them to you, and software like Calibre or text editors like Emacs with the read-aloud.el plugin can read the documents to you on PC.

Links:

* TTS Utils: https://github.com/drmfinlay/tts-util-app
* Librera: https://github.com/foobnix/LibreraReader
* Calibre: https://calibre-ebook.com/
* Read Aloud Browser Plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/read-aloud/ (Firefox), https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/read-aloud-a-text-to-spee/hdhinadidafjejdhmfkjgnolgimiaplp (Chrome)
* read-aloud.el Emacs Plugin: https://github.com/gromnitsky/read-aloud.el
