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A PERSONAL QUESTION to help me finish my NOVEL
by Terry 37 Replies latest jw friends
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Terry
b00mslang asks:
Is it serialized or are you doing only one story?
Is it a Sci-Fi that uses Mars as a setting or is it in reference to war?
I constructed most chapters (not all) like the old movie serials with a kind of mystery, crisis or cliffhanger at the end.
I skip around in the time flow (but NO time travel is involved) just to keep things from being too linear.
Mars is the setting in the same way CHINATOWN meant "A place where anything can happen."
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James Brown
Terry it sounds like you are writing historical fiction.
My favorite author in that genre is James Michner
Have you read him, Terry?
It seems like you are already inspired and motivated.
I was just wondering if you have been inspired by Michner.
I'm not much for reading fiction, but when I do, I read James Michner.
He has a format that he follows in many of his novels that is enticing and works and captivates
over and over again.
To bad hes dead.
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Vidiot
Terry - "I keep asking myself, 'What kind of book would tempt an active Jehovah's Witness to read about their religion?' The answer I came up with is: A book which did NOT appear to be an Apostate rant."
I've often thought that a fictionalized adaptation of the WTS's eschatology (played straight, warts and all, with no sugar-coating) might disturb some JWs enough to "wake them up".
Something similar happened to me; PM me if you're curious.
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Terry
Terry it sounds like you are writing historical fiction.
My favorite author in that genre is James Michner
Have you read him, Terry?
There is j-u-s-t enough history in my story to contextualize the presentation, but not enough to be regarded as accurate in any academic sense.
James Michener was very, very popular when I was a teen. So, I know what you're referencing. What is different about what I'm doing is by leaps and bound rather fantastical.
In Hawaii, remember Jerusha? What if she were married to Tarzan? See what I'm saying? :)
I wanted it to be fun, offbeat and mysterious. I also wanted a point to be made about mind control. There is a real battle of WILLs in this story.
In my estimation, Judge Rutherford was a terrible human being responsible for so many ruined lives, I wanted him as a villain.
The book has some heroic personalities in the old-fashioned sense of non-cynical.
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nancy drew
I like the title it captures your imagination and titles are very important remember Heinlein's book "the moon is a harsh mistress"
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truth_b_known
PM sent.
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SAHS
“Terry”: “Is it disturbing to you when an author jumps into the flow of history and radically departs in order to drive an important lesson home to the reader?”
No, I think that certain historical elements are important to the overall import and flavor of your message. The secret is in the weaving – the historical context should be woven into the story in a manner which preserves clarity and coherence and doesn’t cause confusion.
The goal, I think, would be to allow all types of readers to readily make the intended connection to mind-controlling, totalitarian administrations and regimes – especially the one we’re all to familiar with: the WTS.
It looks like The Monorails of Mars could be an excellent vehicle to allow many lurkers and fence-sitters to get a glimpse of their little sectarian forest from a bird’s-eye perspective and to shine a critical and objective light on the inner workings and operational strategies of that little forest’s leadership. Sometimes it takes the subtleties and nuances of a radical and introspective type of parody to force people to look into the mirror and see the connection with their own personal involvement in their little utopian “spiritual paradise,” even if it’s firstly just on a subconscious level. Such choice eclectic creativity may certainly be up to what it takes to allow those insightful seeds to be planted in folks’ subconscious to germinate and graduate into full-fledged and deliberate conscious thought – and decision.
Perhaps many JWs, especially nearer the fringes, will first look at that and say, “How ridiculous!,” only to soon thereafter exclaim, “My God, that could be about my own story! It looks like that really illustrates exactly what I’ve allowed myself to get tangled up in!”
Your book will be just the thing to show people in WT land what their Society really looks like from the outside. Let the presses roll.
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DATA-DOG
I loathe allegory. LOL!! Do what you will!
DD
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Terry
SAHA says:
Perhaps many JWs, especially nearer the fringes, will first look at that and say, “How ridiculous!,” only to soon thereafter exclaim, “My God, that could be about my own story! It looks like that really illustrates exactly what I’ve allowed myself to get tangled up in!”
Your book will be just the thing to show people in WT land what their Society really looks like from the outside. Let the presses roll.
That would be wonderful!
I really wrote the book for myself. It is filled with "easter eggs" referencing things of a genuinely mysterious nature.
Even the names of minor characters can (not always) be traced to rather amazing offsets of interest.
Anyway--that's my story and I'm sticking to it:)