Looks like writing with a purpose is going to be a challenge for me. My notes for October 1.

Premise:
Protagonist – Synonym for “blaze” = Ray? Synonym for “fire”? Zest. Ray Zest.

Ray Zest wakes up on a later September Monday morning in the Chicago suburban home he lives in by himself, early, to a blazing sun and temperature in the 90s. As he leaves the house for work, he finds his next door neighbors, the Newtons, Christians, frozen in mid song on their front lawn. The Newtons had been having a Sunday night party on their lawn, not unusual for them since they usually hosted a Bible study at their home on Sunday evenings. Ray is in a post rapture world, one where the sun and heat, increasing heat, has taken over. He has been left behind and realizes quickly that no one will be coming back for him. He is now living in a godless world overtaken by the sun’s heat and constant light.

Ray must learn how to survive in a world that has become hell, a world without God.

Ray is never going to make it to work that day. There will be many people in the same state as the Newtons. No children will have been left behind or so it seems, until he finds one ten year old boy, the same age as his son, who did not get “raptured”. He looks for his ex-wife and ten year old son, who he knows had become a Christians after their divorce simply because both had witnessed to him and even got him to come to church with them on Christmas, the same church as the Newtons. They also are gone.

Ray survives even as he struggles with the reality that he is living in the literal hell that had been predicted. He survives to a point, eventually dying at the hands of other survivors who want to occupy the stronghold he has developed for his own survival.

I don't want this to be a story about how a man stuck in a post rapture world finds God nor do I want this to be a Mad Max meets Book of Eli. That is going to be a challenge. I don't normally write this genre, either, so that is going to be a challenge for me.