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Live Novel Writing

 

The Worldbuilding for my ‘Plurality’ universe is growing with each new book. I use a Knowledgebase while I am writing to keep track of names, technology, locations, etc.

In the past, many readers had requested a Glossary and Dramatis Personæ so I decided a while ago to make the full knowledge base available in the ‘Member Zone‘.

Lately, things were getting a little out of control, so I just spent a few hours tidying things up and adding tags etc. The interface is not ideal, a user cannot filter by tags, so I have made some links here that will take you directly to a full list of articles according to the tags below:

Singularity’s Children

Saloa

The Plurality

Anthropocene — Anthropocene is the working title of my new book. I would consider anything in this section a **SPOILER** at this point, but if you want to watch the articles accumulate as a sort of ‘live view’ of the novel writing process—while not getting anything but oblique glimpses of the narrative itself—please be my guest! 🙂

Bitcoin’s Coming…



“The globe’s powers had been rabbits, nibbling shoots on the central reservation of a six-lane highway, aware of, but unconcerned by, the approach of a far-off beam of flickering yellow. They were prepared to make a leisurely lollop to safety if the meandering scooter—which each fully expected would eventually resolve from the glare of the approaching halo—came too close. Far too late, they had understood that the light was not the low-wattage lamp of an approaching electro-cycle, but the single remaining headlight hanging precariously from the rusty cab of an apocalypse-punk, articulated war-lorry fishtailing towards them on eighteen screaming wheels of certain death.”

This is how I described the arrival of the new paradigm in ReImagination. It’s MeshCoin—and it has layers in the Singularity’s Children Worldline—but same difference.

A Clear Flash from the Murky Past



My next book (the one after Saloa which is pretty much done now and in the final stages of the publishing pipeline) is going to enter the muddy waters of alternative ancient history and I’m currently very sensitized to articles like:

“A Cosmic Storm Leaves Its Mark in a Tree” high-tech technique confirms that the Vikings didn’t make up their stories about reaching the Americas.

(not sure about the Powered by Northrop Grumman link for the Viking article, but the tech described in the article is cool:
https://now.northropgrumman.com/vikings-in-north-america-pinpointed-by-cosmic-storm/ )

 

Seems to me that increasingly, stories once considered myth are turning out to be true: Troy, Sunken Countries, Viking Exploits, Great Floods…

 

…so why not Plato’s Atlantis and ancient high technology?

Taking shape in my head is a story of of the giants who came before the time when Sapiens Sapiens had obtained a monopoly on terrestrial technology… a story of great crimes and the punishments of vengeful gods.

 

(Main image: Frank Frazetta)