A Serialised Novel
In January of 2016 I started writing something. Or, at least, I started filling a notebook with ideas, doodles, and notes on Bristol and the city novel that I wanted to write about it.
Three and a half years later, eight notebooks on, many pens passed, and countless doodles – relevant and irrelevant – hence, I have finished what has become The Floating Harbour. Given its length, it is probably a novella, but I’m not sure there’s any real validity to different definitions of what counts as novel or novella. Whichever it is, it is a story. A story about Bristol somewhat, but it evolved far beyond what I originally conceived, though elements have certainly remained.
It could have been called A Day In The Life.
As announced here, I am going to release it serially: chapter by chapter, once a week, every Sunday morning (UK time), starting with the 4th of August. The novel will be entirely free. You can download PDFs from this page and from the posts I make for the release of each chapter. Each chapter on this page will become a link to download the PDF from once it has been released (the Prologue is included with Chapter 1, and the Epilogue with Chapter 11).
At the end of the serialisation, I will make available a PDF of the whole thing altogether.
(Horrendously exaggerated, absolutely fabricated) praise for The Floating Harbour.
Copyright disclaimer for The Floating Harbour.
My up-turned buskers hat. May it overflow or remain empty.
The Floating Harbour
by William Altoft
Prologue
She Rises Then
Chapter 1
Mist On Water
Chapter 2
The Day, In Gentle Force, Begins
Chapter 3
The Church Muses To The Mid-Morning
Chapter 4
Cascade Girl In The Mist
Chapter 5
The River Keeps Me Company
Chapter 6
For All The Syllables, The Words
Chapter 7
This Room, This City, This World
Chapter 8
Can You Hear His Story? He Is Telling It
Chapter 9
A Path More Covered, And A Darker Night
Chapter 10
Fire And Starlight
Chapter 11
With Time Already Passed
Epilogue
A Bird Facing Left By Water
william altoft 
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