Emergence Ascended · science fiction · spiritualism · writing

It’s been a long time coming!

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“Emergence Ascended” is now finished! I think I found an Illustrator for the book cover. (Of course, you will be the first to see it when it is completed.) I have no idea when it will be released on Amazon (Kindle and paperback), but my hopes are it will be released sometime in mid-November!

I have a few more projects lined up; next is my ghost story. I am very excited about this. As a discovery writer, or “seat of the pants” writer, as some call it, I feel pretty comfortable. I do hit a few snags here and there and sometimes have to write my way out of corners I put myself in, but I manage to muddle through. However, the ghost story is pretty complex, and there are a lot of components that need to mesh just right. So, I am going to make myself uncomfortable and try to do an “outline.” I know it’s strange saying those words, but I’m going to give it a go.

I already have a plan; I want to start by gathering up all my characters and writing bio’s on them. Establish relationships and behind-the-scenes details that may or may not make it in the book. I am excited about this process since I am usually getting to know the characters as I write them.

Also, since there are some complex mechanics, I am flirting with the idea of writing most or part, at least from the end. And work my way backward. I am not sure if that will stick; I will have to play around and see.

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I got something cookin’!

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Oh, I can’t wait to share! But it’s a project that is out of my hands, so I have to wait to tell you. I have always been horrible about keeping a secret. Not that I can’t be trusted with a confidential secret or something like that. The secrets I have a hard time keeping are things like a gift I can’t wait for you to enjoy or a particularly exciting piece of news. So this is as far as I can go; just a tease for something very cool coming up, so Stay tuned; it could be any day now.

As far as my progress on “Emergence Ascended” goes, The rewrite of chapter 42 is very satisfying, and I started chapter 43 with great momentum.   It’s hard to gauge because I don’t know what I am writing until I write it. However, I think chapter 44 will be the last. The fun stuff is over after that, and then there are edits and artwork for the cover. (I am in the market for an illustrator for the book cover, so if there is someone you like, send them my way.)

Now that I am getting close to completing this book, I have to resist the urge to start my next one. My attention deficit disorder compels me to start a new project when I have enough of the last project done to be considered ‘close enough’ and then jump to the next. And that explains why I have hundreds of unfinished works. (to be fair, most are not good enough to finish.)

I want to thank  “Jolene,”  whoever you are, for Leaving a great review of “Emergence Collective’ on Amazon. It means more than I can say. Ratings and reviews help bring awareness to my books and to me, So I appreciate it sincerely.

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Sacrifices must be made…

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It’s October. The veil between worlds is thin, and the old gods demand tribute. Blood will flow! Muahahahahahaa! Maybe I should have waited to post this until tomorrow, Friday the 13th (or lucky you to the Australian readers), To post my sacrifice piece. Okay, not a blood sacrifice, but I donated part of my soul to the cause.

It doesn’t happen a lot, and maybe it should more often. I don’t know. I had spent a fair amount of time writing chapter 42. One of the last chapters in “Emergence Ascended.” I am wrapping up the main conflict and setting up for the satisfying conclusion that will make or break my book. Nothing is worse than getting invested in a story only to have it fall flat in the end. (my new fear). I recently watched a movie that did just that, though I can’t remember the name because I try to forget disappointment.

The chapter flowed well and had all the elements I was hoping for. The tone was right, and I think it invoked the emotion I was trying to instill. Then, I deleted it. I even set up for it a couple times in earlier chapters (I had to go back and change those breadcrumbs, too)

It was painful. I do not get much time to write (this book could have been completed a year ago, to be honest), so the writing I do accomplish is precious. I deleted it because, even though I knew where I was going, it didn’t read like I wanted when I got there. My inner critic told me things like, “It’s pretentious, expository, and leaned too heavily on outside references.”   DELETE.

Sometimes, sacrifices are needed, and some are even worth it. So, I have mixed feelings, but the strongest is eagerness. Excitement to take another approach. I am so close to the end, its worth my effort to make sure the reader gets the best out of me.

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Emergence Ascended · Emergence Collective · writing

Decisions decisions…

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Remember, I’m still new to this writing thing. So sometimes I am reinventing the wheel or discovering a known thing (to the wizened writer). Every once in a while, I come to a fork in the road of the plot. I am a discovery writer, so as I am writing the story, I am making it up as I go. I have a mental road map about the direction the story will go. A rough idea about how it will end. I surprise even myself sometimes at how it is turning out, a new character I add to fill a gap might end up being integral to the plot as a whole and one I had not conceived of when I started writing.

So as it turns out, I again, have to come to a decision about what some characters are going to do. It’s not an issue with writer’s block, though I think it’s related a cousin, or uncle to writer’s block maybe. This has happened about 3 times in this story “Emergence Ascended,” and a few times in “Emergence Collective,” but the emergence collective one stumped me for a few months LOL. I write as I go, but I also think about the story as a whole when I am not writing (am I still a discovery writer?) In particular when an important scene (like the middle of the 3rd act). Someone I love has to die. Which of the bad guys deserve redemption? Am I supposed to pick up the dry cleaning? ( sorry that’s how my brain works and why it takes so long to write) I have a general idea how this book ends. but there are some situations that are almost interchangeable but will slightly alter my original idea (not that that is a bad thing) but which option will make the best, most satisfying end?

I had been quite productive in the last few weeks, I can feel the end coming and that has inspired me and that inspiration turned into an urgency. thing were smooth and flowing (I get that weird flow state when I write sometimes) well until now. I will reflect on who is going to die, who is worthy.

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Audible · Emergence Ascended · Emergence Collective · narrators

Audible update:Stasis

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I bet you have wondered why I have not posted an Audible update lately. That project is on pause. It has been challenging to get clean recordings, and the amount of editing made the project bigger than it should have been. It is much work for a crappy outcome. OK, I was getting better at it. You can still listen on Spotify to my progress at narrating; the sound quality was also improving. (It was pretty cringy the first few episodes.)

So I was recording in my dining room; it is wide open to the kitchen and living room with vaulted ceilings, so everything echoes, and (5 cats) are noisier than they should be. So, I am waiting for a space to carve out for a permanent recording area. In the next few months, I should have a niche to call my own, and I will resume recording then.

In the meantime, I continue to chip away at Emergence Ascended, on chapter 30, with just over 50 thousand words, so I am nearing completion. I started my research on the ghost story I am writing next. I have been corresponding with a paranormal investigator group in the UK, so I look forward to some spooky tales to flesh out my insane idea. If you are or know a ghost hunter or paranormal investigator, send them my way!

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So close I can taste it

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I am making good progress on “Emergence Ascended” (the sequel to “Emergence Collective.”) I am getting close to the final chapters and I couldn’t be happier. I am working with an Artist, Nora Ravenhorn for some digital art. Here is an image of Serenity Gates, one of the characters in “Emergence Ascended” (click the picture for a link to her Facebook)

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Interdimensional or many worlds?

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This is a repost since it occurred to me that the headline would have made me skip it, too.

So, I have been thinking about characters for my next book, “The Yellow Man” (working title). It is basically a ghost story, and the main characters are a group of paranormal investigators (trust me, it’s not that boring; I got something up my sleeve). One of the characters is a hardened skeptic (I am not trying to follow the Mulder/ Scully trope, either). So, to get into his head and see his point of view, I have been thinking hard about the paranormal, its ideas, and explanations. I keep coming across a concept thrown about willy-nilly, and I do not think that people understand what they are implying. I know what they mean, so I don’t correct them (it’s pointless and unnecessary anyway because I get what they mean). The term Dimensions is in relation to our reality, our ‘world’, the universe.

Typically, it’s a statement such as “What if they are interdimensional?” or “They come from another dimension”. They can be ghosts, aliens, fae folk, whatever. It bothers me because of my personal interpretation (I am not a physicist). My rant is that two different ideas are trying to be mashed up together to get a result. It kind of a confirmation bias by ignoring how physics actually works (remember, I am not a physicist; if you are, PLEASE ‘splain it to me like I’m five). So, let’s explore these two ideas. 1 is can you actually travel from dimension to dimension. But we have to understand what we are even talking about when discussing dimensions. It is exactly what you should be thinking. A dimension is something that can be measured. And that is the important thing. MEASURED. Length, width, depth, etc.. all can be measured. Time can be measured. We perceive the 4 dimensions since it is our habitat. We call it spacetime. Let’s explore how dimensions stack up and interact with each other.  

A 4D spacetime can be seen as a combination of a 3D space and a 1D time. A 5D space can be seen as a combination of a 4D spacetime and a 1D extra dimension. And so on. Also because higher dimensions can have features or aspects that are not present or visible in lower dimensions. For example, a 2D plane can be seen as a combination of two 1D lines, but it also has properties such as area and angle that are not meaningful in 1D. A 3D space can be seen as a combination of three 2D planes, but it also has properties such as volume and curvature that are not meaningful in 2D.

To illustrate this point, let’s imagine how a higher-dimensional being would interact with a lower-dimensional world. Suppose there is a 2D world that is flat like a sheet of paper, and there is a 3D being that can move above and below it. The 3D being can see the entire 2D world at once, but the 2D beings can only see what is on their plane. If the 3D being touches the 2D world with its finger, the 2D beings will only see a circle that appears and disappears on their plane. They will not be able to perceive the depth or shape of the finger, nor the fact that it belongs to a larger entity.

All that being said (getting back to my character and I agree with him) is that if ghosts are from another dimension, we would either not perceive them as we can not perceive a higher dimension, or if they are from a lower dimension, they would not be able to interact with our 3D world, AND they would not be aware of our presence either.

That is my rant. Am I off base? Do I even make sense? Let me know in the comments, and give it a like.

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Ontological shock and the evolution of consensus reality.

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As the covid pandemic started to chill out and the world was beginning to get back to normal, I wrote a post about a weird “feeling,” for lack of a better word. The feeling I had, began before the pandemic. I felt a strange sense of foreboding or unexplained anxiety.   And I could sense it in other people and the world a global precognition. There was a stress that I think everyone had but could not pinpoint exactly what was bothering them. (I believe it has contributed much to why society is so on edge today.) Now I am not suggesting that I am a psychic or a prophet or whatever; I just noticed the feeling before the pandemic, and when the pandemic hit, I felt that it was the reason for the subconscious anxiety. I wrote a blog post (or Twitter now X, or Instagram? I forget where I will look harder for it.) about the same, but a different sensation of anxiety I am feeling now. It is not as intense and not quite the feeling of dread; there is something.

IT IS NOT A PSYCHIC PREDICTION. Maybe. I’m on the fence about all that woo. But I feel that there is now, at this moment, a shift in the consensus reality of humanity. Specifically, the topic of UFOs (now UAP, I’m old school, so UFOs to me.) The congressional hearing on UAP recently released the Genie from the bottle to the general public. The admittance of the government that they are acknowledging their awareness of the phenomenon is pretty groundbreaking. Whether you believe it or not, it really doesn’t matter; now, people are experiencing a collective awareness of the subject in a different way than they had ever in the past. The topic is now given a legitimacy that it had never had before, Blowing people’s minds and making them question their beliefs about what was previously thought to be ‘known.’. That is an ontological shock. 

                I explored and played with the idea of the flexibility of consensus reality and how it can change in my book “Emergence Collective”. One example is the notion of ‘the Mandela effect.

 The term “Mandela Effect” was first coined in 2009 by Fiona Broome when she created a website to detail her observance of the phenomenon. Broome was at a conference talking with other people about how she remembered the tragedy of former South African president Nelson Mandela’s death in a South African prison in the 1980s. However, Nelson Mandela did not die in the 1980s in a prison—he passed away in 2013. As Broome began to talk to other people about her memories, she learned that she was not alone. Others remembered seeing news coverage of his death as well as a speech by his widow.

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-the-mandela-effect-4589394

OK moving on… In Emergence collective, I described a situation that had literal world-changing events, as the characters dabbled with abilities that allowed them to change the physical reality around them. In the Sequel (spoiler alert for those who plan on reading it) that is nearing completion, I continued the concept that things like urban legends like say, “A satanic cult summons a demon that lays waste to a community, then gets defeated, and all trace evidence of the battle and destruction was removed.” A generation later, humanity has all but forgotten that the event had occurred because consensus reality healed the scar from the people’s consciousnesses. So I have been exploring these ideas of what the nature of reality is. More to the point that WE, humans, our consciousness is the reality, and the world is a reaction to us, not the other way around. We are creating our universe as we explore it.

Where am I going with all this? I do have a point. With the evolution of our worldview, I believe the consensus reality is changing. I have noticed that recently (in the last few months.) There has started to be a literal clarity in photographs and video evidence of UFOs. In the past, every picture was fuzzy, but now, more and more photos are increasingly clear and more credible. After the Hearing on UAP there is a surge of high-quality images. I think that there is a link to the paradigm shift. As we all start to explore and contemplate the reality of UAP’s existence, we can see more evidence. We are changing reality.

Now back to my “feeling” I have. I believe our world will be changed in ways that we can barely comprehend now in the near future. All our wildest science fiction fever dreams are going to come true, from Alien visitation to teleportation and star wars like technology.

Some side notes, Yes, camera technology has improved, so there is that. But the awareness is increasing, and people are less afraid of the stigma the topic has had in the past. Bigfoot photos are also less fuzzy. (just saying) But I think it is less and effect of our current optic tech that is improving but the willingness to believe. So you know, I do not ‘believe’ in the UAP phenomenon as I am a witness on two different occasions. I know what I saw, it was nuts and bolts craft. Now the rest of the world is catching up.

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AI art for part 2.

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The golf ball-sized chrome sphere appeared in the middle of the pine and seventh avenue intersection. It hovered silently and unwavering as a tractor-green waste management truck collided with it, punching a perfect hole through the length of the truck. Out of control, the dump truck plowed into the traffic ahead, tossing a few small cars aside as it ground to a halt. Another perfectly round hole pierced through the vehicle following the truck, and it, in turn, smashed violently into the garbage truck. In a desperate attempt to avoid the collision in front, the third vehicle braked hard and turned sharply. It slid sideways, the momentum carrying the car into the sphere, forcing the globe through the temple of the driver’s head like a hole punch. The sphere sat steady unmarred, with a mirror finish that made it appear innocent despite the carnage surrounding it. 

Shocked at the scene, the onlookers quickly noticed the strange imperturbable object that had caused so much damage and bloodshed. One of the witnesses sprang into action in the seconds that followed the collisions. He rushed to the man with the perfect circle of gore just beginning to ooze out of his head, deciding in horror that there was no help, and looked into the back seat for any passengers that may need assistance. The body slumped over, its former owner no longer in control, and fell into the sphere still hovering inside the car.