How to Start With Dystopia

I've had a book inside me for a long time. It's the old adage of you have to go through hell to realise what heaven is, right? But I actually wrote a post on Medium back in 2018, 2019. And I started talking about the idea of starting with dystopia. If you start thinking about how bad it can be, then you can work out how good it can be. So by the time it got to sort of late September, early October, 2021, my partner was on maternity leave. We had a baby during the pandemic so that's always right. and we went to live in California at one of our families,. places that we were lucky enough