I have been working on this book for a couple of years now.
I have thrown away 3 complete manuscripts of it also, but bad writing is just
bad writing, no sense keeping any of it but the story line.
I spent the time while the Angles and Olympians book was
being beta read to refine the Character profile pages and changed some of their
profiles to better match where the story line was heading, I also added some new
character’s to the story. The main “hero” of the book is a NYPD officer in the
future that ends up in the past, specifically on the day the Towers where hit,
he was inside them and knowing his history knew he had to get out and tried to
save as many as he could in the process. I am thinking of changing that a little
bit to reflect his arrival immediately after the towers fall, I have two
versions and I am still deciding on which one to use for it.
I have come up with a reasonable explanation for his time
traveling, I did not use a machine, I have decide to use his eagerness, in his
college youth, to make money and volunteering for an experimental drug from a
Big Pharmaceutical company while attending New York University in
Manhattan. It is falling a little short on
realism but I have written down some ideas on how to make that part of the
story line more plausible. I am using the theory of the untapped potential of
the mind to move it’s “essence” so to say, to different time periods and occupy
different vassals, specifically one vassal in particular. With this of course
there needs to be a nemesis, so I have created a serial killer that also has
this ability, and I will have the crimes mirror each other in both time zones.
So far I have made the serial killer extremely brutal, I may have to tone it
down a little bit, but I may not, this book is not intended for children in any
way and it helps keep to the realism. There is so much more to the story than
just these two characters, there are two additional subplots that are happening
also. I have completed the outline and have the first couple of chapters done,
of course this is the first draft only.
This book will be a full novel, I am figuring somewhere
around 80K words maybe a little more. As of right now I have this being a
trilogy, but may leave it open for future stories also, I will have to see how
people react to the characters and the story line.
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