Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 265, more Medical Technology Development, How to Develop Storyline

31 December 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 265, more Medical Technology Development, How to Develop Storyline

Announcement: My new novels should be available from any webseller or can be ordered from any brick and mortar bookstore.  Information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my 25th novel, working title, Escape, is this: a girl in a fascist island nation will do anything to escape--a young cargo ferry pilot not following the rules crashes on the island.

This theme statement lends itself well to each part of the development of a novel.  Note, there is a setting, an initial scene, protagonist, protagonist helper, antagonist, and the climax is obvious.  Let's talk about each.

More small digression:  I'm now on a demo tour in the AT-6 to Paraguay.  I'm writing from Ecuador.

On the colony world of the novel, working title, Escape, there are numerous continents and at least one large island.  The large island is a fascist nation that is based in pure extrapolated communism.  This nation is called Freedom.  Freedom has three groups of people on it: the Party Members, the citizens, and the armed citizens. 

Indeed, the extrapolation of a socialist or a communist nation is that the citizens are treated like chattel.  Their value is only the worth they bring to the state--they have no inherent value and no inherent worth. 

In Freedom, this value is tracked numerically for each citizen.  I mentioned before, when the value of a citizen becomes less than the value of his organs and fluids, he is harvested.  Many are harvested in the womb or as children.  Of course, Freedom has a strong eugenics program.  All fascist socialist and communist regimes dream of a eugenics program.  They want to breed the best and brightest citizens.  All fascist socialist and communist regimes want to control family constituents and relationships.

In freedom, the children are taken immediately from the mother and father to ensure a clean upbringing by the state.  The state is the best parent for the children.  When the child's value, including potential becomes less than their organs, the child is harvested.  Sometimes, the child of a Party Member needs an organ--one of the children citizens loses their life--for of course, the child of a citizen can never be worth the life of a beloved Party Member's child.  Medicine and medical procedures are made to sustain the life of the Party Members and not the citizens.  This is the medical environment of Freedom.

By the way, Merry seventh day of Christmas--this is my gift to you: more medical technology.

More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 264, Medical Technology Development, How to Develop Storyline

30 December 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 264, Medical Technology Development, How to Develop Storyline

Announcement: My new novels should be available from any webseller or can be ordered from any brick and mortar bookstore.  Information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my 25th novel, working title, Escape, is this: a girl in a fascist island nation will do anything to escape--a young cargo ferry pilot not following the rules crashes on the island.

This theme statement lends itself well to each part of the development of a novel.  Note, there is a setting, an initial scene, protagonist, protagonist helper, antagonist, and the climax is obvious.  Let's talk about each.

More small digression:  I'm now on a demo tour in the AT-6 to Paraguay.  I'm writing from Paraguay.

On the colony world of the novel, working title, Escape, there are numerous continents and at least one large island.  The large island is a fascist nation that is based in pure extrapolated communism.  This nation is called Freedom.  Freedom has three groups of people on it: the Party Members, the citizens, and the armed citizens. 

I mentioned art as one of the focuses of the fascist nation of Freedom.  Art comes into play because the Party seeks entertainment as a function of their rule.  Therefore, the arts of the "Development" Center are: colors and scents, movies and programs, music, books and photography.  This should seem odd to you if you imagine the purpose of a development center in a market based society.  Shouldn't a development center be focused on technology?  Not on Freedom.  Freedom is a nation without any competition.  It doesn't worry about military technology or military competition.  It only has to keep its citizens occupied and under control.

The Freedom Party is completely interested in entertainment and self fulfilment.  There is no consideration of the citizens.  There is no need to invent new technology except to help the party.  The main technology investment by the Party is for medical intervention and longevity.  They accomplish this through transplants and the use of human endocrine fluids and compounds. 

The technology of Freedom is all about, first, maintaining the lives of the Party Members.  To do that, let's assume a technological extrapolation based on preventing death.  In Freedom, with lots of citizens and few Party Members, there is an opportunity to experiment with human subjects and human tissues outside of any human mores or ethics.  The Freedom Party has discovered how to keep their Party Members alive with nearly perfect organ transplants and the use of other human hormones and fluids.  Any of this would be considered illegal anywhere else.  Freedom has people and lives to spare.  When the value of a citizen is less than their organs, snip snap, the organs are harvested and stored or used to maintain the life of a Party Member. 

The Party Members of freedom have discovered was to use hormones and other human tissues and fluids to tone and reduce the effects of aging.  The citizens provide all of the required ingredients. 

By the way, Merry sixth day of Christmas--this is my gift to you: medical technology.

More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 263, Labor Technology Development, How to Develop Storyline

29 December 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 263, Labor Technology Development, How to Develop Storyline

Announcement: My new novels should be available from any webseller or can be ordered from any brick and mortar bookstore.  Information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my 25th novel, working title, Escape, is this: a girl in a fascist island nation will do anything to escape--a young cargo ferry pilot not following the rules crashes on the island.

This theme statement lends itself well to each part of the development of a novel.  Note, there is a setting, an initial scene, protagonist, protagonist helper, antagonist, and the climax is obvious.  Let's talk about each.

More small digression:  I'm now on a demo tour in the AT-6 to Paraguay.  I'm writing from Paraguay.

On the colony world of the novel, working title, Escape, there are numerous continents and at least one large island.  The large island is a fascist nation that is based in pure extrapolated communism.  This nation is called Freedom.  Freedom has three groups of people on it: the Party Members, the citizens, and the armed citizens. 

Communist societies assume labor is free, but "there never is a free lunch."  Labor, even government labor is never free.  Slave labor is never free.  In the island nation of Freedom, the citizens and armed citizens are fed, clothed, and housed.  They are provided the basics of life.  They are taught that life is work and work is life--they never get to taste the fruit of their labor. 

The citizens of Freedom are also tracked--that means they are bred and evaluated as children for the purpose of training for specific technical and artistic (developmental work).  The protagonist of the novel is a girl/young woman who was bred, traced, and trained specifically for visual acuity and scent acuity.  She is unique and very effective in her work.  She has no idea that her skills provide a piece of artistic development to the Party Members of Freedom.  Indeed, Reb's work is similar to that of a fashion house and perfumer.  She designs color and scent patterns that are used for clothing, furniture, art, designs, etc.  She has no idea how her work is used--except that she did design the colors for the blue and the green drug given to citizens.

Isn't it interesting that socialist (Nazi for example) and communist (USSR and China for example) fascist societies focus so much on art.  Soviet Realism was the official art form of the Stalin regime.  Mao even had his own cultural revolution.  Hitler collected, burned, and commissioned art all over Europe.  The extrapolation of Freedom is that the entire Party is focused in art and sensuality--in many ways.  This is a simple extrapolation of their society and culture.

By the way, Merry fifth day of Christmas--this is my gift to you: art and technology.

More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 262, more Technology Development, How to Develop Storyline

28 December 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 262, more Technology Development, How to Develop Storyline

Announcement: My new novels should be available from any webseller or can be ordered from any brick and mortar bookstore.  Information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my 25th novel, working title, Escape, is this: a girl in a fascist island nation will do anything to escape--a young cargo ferry pilot not following the rules crashes on the island.

This theme statement lends itself well to each part of the development of a novel.  Note, there is a setting, an initial scene, protagonist, protagonist helper, antagonist, and the climax is obvious.  Let's talk about each.

More small digression:  I'm now on a demo tour in the AT-6 to Paraguay.  I'm writing from Paraguay.

On the colony world of the novel, working title, Escape, there are numerous continents and at least one large island.  The large island is a fascist nation that is based in pure extrapolated communism.  This nation is called Freedom.  Freedom has three groups of people on it: the Party Members, the citizens, and the armed citizens. 

The Party Members have everything and the citizens do all the work.  To ensue there is plenty of work and because they are retrograde, anything that can be accomplished by a human is done by a human.  For example, cutting the grass to produce military grade roads is accomplished by hand labor.  This isn't that odd for communist and socialist societies because the value of the human labor is low.  There is no reason to mechanize anything if the cost of human labor is low.

In a high technological market based economy, human value is based mainly in service labor and intellectual labor.  There are pockets of manufacturing and agricultural labor, but it becomes more and more valuable to mechanize manufacturing and agricultural labor to free up human resources for intellectual and service pursuits.  Communist and socialist societies see labor as free, and in their slave based economies, it generally is. 

In the nation of Freedom, the labor of the citizens comes at the cost of food, drink, and habitation.  The punishment occurs when the value of the citizen drops below the value of their organs--then slash, slash, slash.

By the way, Merry fourth day of Christmas--this is my gift to you: more about technology.

More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 261, Technology Development, How to Develop Storyline

27 December 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 261, Technology Development, How to Develop Storyline

Announcement: My new novels should be available from any webseller or can be ordered from any brick and mortar bookstore.  Information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my 25th novel, working title, Escape, is this: a girl in a fascist island nation will do anything to escape--a young cargo ferry pilot not following the rules crashes on the island.

This theme statement lends itself well to each part of the development of a novel.  Note, there is a setting, an initial scene, protagonist, protagonist helper, antagonist, and the climax is obvious.  Let's talk about each.

More small digression:  I'm now on a demo tour in the AT-6 to Paraguay.  I'm writing from Paraguay.

Let's talk about technology.  I did a whole series on extrapolating technology for science fiction.  I am using all the ideas I wrote about in this novel.  I'm giving away a bit, but by the time the novel is published, you'll have forgotten it all.  The world of Escape is a colony of earth.  I'm not certain how much I'll describe this (if at all) in the novel.  The colony is technologically superior to our times and yet slightly retrograde in some ways. 

The superior technology are all the modes of travel, management, and operations of the truly free nations on the planet.  The retrograde are personal equipment and goods.  Therefore, I don't have human integrated technology--I left the technology slightly higher than today, but still fixed in manufactured goods.  For example, in the future, books will be projected from an installed chip or device in the brain to the person's mind.  In Escape, they still use electronic books.  The electronic books are higher tech than ours, but they are still not human imbedded.  The people of Freedom are both retrograde with some high tech.  Their high tech deals with medical, coding, human materials, foods, and drugs.  They are very retrograde in some areas, especially those that can be easily replaced with human labor.

By the way, Merry third day of Christmas--this is my gift to you: more about technology.

More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 260, more Setting Climax Development, How to Develop Storyline

26 December 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 260, more Setting Climax Development, How to Develop Storyline

Announcement: My new novels should be available from any webseller or can be ordered from any brick and mortar bookstore.  Information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my 25th novel, working title, Escape, is this: a girl in a fascist island nation will do anything to escape--a young cargo ferry pilot not following the rules crashes on the island.

This theme statement lends itself well to each part of the development of a novel.  Note, there is a setting, an initial scene, protagonist, protagonist helper, antagonist, and the climax is obvious.  Let's talk about each.

More small digression:  I'm now on a demo tour in the AT-6 to Paraguay.  I'm writing from Paraguay.

I mentioned that I like to let a novel write itself.  The point of this is not to force the writing in one way or another, but to build the world from the setting.  The details come out of the writing itself. 

What I mean by writing itself is that I provide the theme, plot, setting, and characters then let them act in the storyline to develop the climax.  The spaceship (shuttle) is only one example of this.  Here is another more specific example--it comes out of the question of what do the people in my new book, Escape do for books and other related materials.

The answer is electronics.  The world of Freedom (the island fascist nation in the book), does not include books at all for the citizens--only the Party Members have books.  I haven't come to the point were I need to describe them yet, but I suspect I will leave the books of Freedom as mostly picture books in a paper or plastic format and not electronic.  There are reasons based on the setting--of course.

Freedom is an odd mix of technology and lack of technology.  As I've written in this blog, when extrapolating the future, autocratic nations without strong markets and wealthy people tend to have very few technological advances--they stagnate technologically.  A strong market and wealthy are required for fast technology increases.  Therefore, Freedom can be expected to have only the technology that was prominent at the time of its creation while the other nations around it have progressed beyond it.  Freedom therefore has no electronic books except reference manuals in the computers.  They don't have electronic books.  The citizens of Freedom don't have access to books anyway.  As my protagonist, Reb tells Scott: read every word--here they skip over the ones they don't know or that they want you to not know.  One of the powerful concepts I use is the pictures and words in Scott's (protagonist's helper) electronic books that interest and encourage Reb. 

By the way, Merry second day of Christmas--this is my gift to you: more about electronic boos and characters.

More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 259, Setting Climax Development, How to Develop Storyline

25 December 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 259, Setting Climax Development, How to Develop Storyline

Announcement: My new novels should be available from any webseller or can be ordered from any brick and mortar bookstore.  Information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my 25th novel, working title, Escape, is this: a girl in a fascist island nation will do anything to escape--a young cargo ferry pilot not following the rules crashes on the island.

This theme statement lends itself well to each part of the development of a novel.  Note, there is a setting, an initial scene, protagonist, protagonist helper, antagonist, and the climax is obvious.  Let's talk about each.

More small digression:  I'm now on a demo tour in the AT-6 to Paraguay.  I'm writing from Paraguay. 

I mentioned that I like to let a novel write itself.  The point of this is not to force the writing in one way or another, but to build the world from the setting.  The details come out of the writing itself. 

What I mean by writing itself is that I provide the theme, plot, setting, and characters then let them act in the storyline to develop the climax.  I was using a spaceship as an example of how the setting itself creates the world, and how the development of the world of the novel designs the parts of the world. 

In this case, I need a spaceship--a shuttle to be exact.  I have space shuttles in many of my other science fiction novels. It so happens, I know a reasonable amount about real space vehicle and shuttles--at least enough to describe potential shuttle operations.  For my earlier novels, I developed a heavy lifting shuttle the uses hydrogen fuel as the propellant, and compressed atmosphere, when available as the oxidant.  These shuttles only go to the very reaches of the atmosphere and for low earth orbital operations, they store some of the atmosphere to burn with the hydrogen.  Basically, these shuttles have large hydrogen jet engines for very high altitude and near space operations, but they also operate well in the atmosphere.

For Escape, I backed up the science a little.  The heavy lifting shuttle in this new novel uses the same basic idea of a hydrogen jet engine, but it only has one engine and it is used mainly for high earth cargo operations--as opposed to orbital operations.  There are more details that I left out about this specific shuttle, but they are unnecessary to the storyline.

By the way, Merry Christmas--this is my gift to you: more about shuttles and spacecraft.

More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 258, still more Climax Development, How to Develop Storyline

24 December 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 258, still more Climax Development, How to Develop Storyline

Announcement: My new novels should be available from any webseller or can be ordered from any brick and mortar bookstore.  Information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my 25th novel, working title, Escape, is this: a girl in a fascist island nation will do anything to escape--a young cargo ferry pilot not following the rules crashes on the island.

This theme statement lends itself well to each part of the development of a novel.  Note, there is a setting, an initial scene, protagonist, protagonist helper, antagonist, and the climax is obvious.  Let's talk about each.

More small digression:  I'm now on a demo tour in the AT-6 to Paraguay.  I'm writing from Colon Ecuador.  In fact, I'm in the Hilton Presidential Suite--I think they mixed me up with someone...

I mentioned that I like to let a novel write itself.  The point of this is not to force the writing in one way or another, but to build the world from the setting.  The details come out of the writing itself. 

Let's put it this way.  If you sat down and tried to develop on paper a world as complex as say Dune.  You would find this to be an impossibility.  The complexities and the details are not usually written by the author and then placed in the novel.  The author develops a complex "world" by building the setting and the thinking about it.  I'm can't speak for Frank Herbert, but I can speak for myself. 

When I need a spaceship, I don't pull one from my notes on the science fiction world--I build it from the science fiction world.  I know this well.  I've already written a group of novels about the far future of my Chronicles of the Dragon and the Fox world.  I know the planets in that "world."  There area couple of planets that produce spaceships.  The spaceship of that "world" are based on principles from the setting and science of that world--this is not to say it isn't an extrapolation of the future based on real science, but rather that the science in the world I created is already an extrapolation.  The spaceships of the different eras in this science fiction universe look and operate in ways defined by the extrapolated science.  This fiction universe is just one way the future could look.  I'll discuss this further. 
             
More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 257, more Climax Development, How to Develop Storyline

23 December 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 257, more Climax Development, How to Develop Storyline

Announcement: My new novels should be available from any webseller or can be ordered from any brick and mortar bookstore.  Information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my 25th novel, working title, Escape, is this: a girl in a fascist island nation will do anything to escape--a young cargo ferry pilot not following the rules crashes on the island.

This theme statement lends itself well to each part of the development of a novel.  Note, there is a setting, an initial scene, protagonist, protagonist helper, antagonist, and the climax is obvious.  Let's talk about each.

Small digression:  I was previously making a literal world tour in the T-6C.  I was one of the pilots making a delivery to New Zealand.  I kept up this blog during that trip.  I'm now on a demo tour in the AT-6 to Paraguay.  I'm writing from Grand Cayman Island.  More inspiration for Escape.  By the way, I got the idea for this novel while flying over the Grecian and Italian Isles. 

The question for this new novel is how do we get to the, and when we get there what do we do with it?  I've written before that I don't like to outline a novel.  I have a broad idea in my mind and I let the novel write itself.  So far, this novel has really gone in ways I didn't expect. 

The entire novel leaps out of the initial scene and the setting.  This is an incredible point about a science fiction novel like this.  If I define the world (setting) in a certain way and suddenly have my characters change the rules of the society or culture (this must happen when you interject a foreign person into a culture or society). Let's look at the parenthetical.  When you bring a foreign character (the pilot from a free nation) into a completely controlled and regulated culture and society, the foreign character can do one of two things.  They can assimilate or they can change their environment. 

For example, my pilot character immediately identifies one of the food stuffs provided to the people (citizens) as a drug.  It is a euphoric with other properties.  He can choose to take the drug (assimilate) or not take the drug (change the environment).  The pilot chooses to not take the drug and encourages the girl to also stop.  The problem with this is that the drug includes birth control, a sexual desire suppressor, and a depressant along with the euphoric.  Can you already see a problem brewing.  If the girl goes off the drug, she will go into withdrawl, but also she will regain sexual desire, become agitated, and become fertile.  She already said she will do anything to escape, and she is driven.  If she experiences feelings, thoughts, and desires she has never had before and is in an uninhibited culture with her young savior, what do you think will happen?  And this is just one example among many. 
             
More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 256, Climax Development, How to Develop Storyline

22 December 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 256, Climax Development, How to Develop Storyline

Announcement: My new novels should be available from any webseller or can be ordered from any brick and mortar bookstore.  Information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my newest novel, Valeska, is this: while on assignment in Gdansk, Poland, an agent of the organization becomes involved with a vampire girl during a mission, she becomes dependent on the agent, and she is redeemed.

Here is my proposed cover for Valeska:

I decided on a white cover style.  You can see more at www.GoddessofDarkness.com.

I started writing on my newest novel.  Here is the theme statement: a girl in a fascist island nation will do anything to escape--a young cargo ferry pilot not following the rules crashes on the island.

This theme statement lends itself well to each part of the development of a novel.  Note, there is a setting, an initial scene, protagonist, protagonist helper, antagonist, and the climax is obvious.  Let's talk about each.

I looked at each of the elements of the novel that come out of the theme statement for the novel.  I mentioned the climax, but I didn't go into any details.  I'll move on to that part of the novel.  We saw how the theme statement can be used to devise the setting, the initial scene, the protagonist, the protagonist's helper, and the antagonist.  I mentioned that the climax, in this theme statement, is obvious.  The climax isn't obvious in every theme statement--notably the theme statements of both Valeska and Lilly do not define the climax well.  In this novel, the climax is part of the action word in the theme--escape.

The climax of this new novel must be an escape--or a tragic failure to escape.  The climax isn't necessarily set, but the concept of the climax is set.  The focus of the writing of this novel will be aimed toward escape.  The writing will move the characters in such a way that they will attempt to escape the nation of Freedom (the setting).  Specifically, this climax defines the entire novel--to be trite, this is an escape novel.  The characters, the setting, the initial scene, and the antagonist all point to escape. 
             
More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 255, Novel Development, Characters and Plot, How to Develop Storyline

21 December 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 255, Novel Development, Characters and Plot, How to Develop Storyline

Announcement: My new novels should be available from any webseller or can be ordered from any brick and mortar bookstore.  Information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my newest novel, Valeska, is this: while on assignment in Gdansk, Poland, an agent of the organization becomes involved with a vampire girl during a mission, she becomes dependent on the agent, and she is redeemed.

Here is my proposed cover for Valeska:

I decided on a white cover style.  You can see more at www.GoddessofDarkness.com.

I started writing on my newest novel.  Here is the theme statement: a girl in a fascist island nation will do anything to escape--a young cargo ferry pilot not following the rules crashes on the island.

This theme statement lends itself well to each part of the development of a novel.  Note, there is a setting, an initial scene, protagonist, protagonist helper, antagonist, and the climax is obvious.  Let's talk about each.

It's kind of funny that when I started this series I was writing about Valseka.  That novel is long finished, and I've already written one other, Lilly, and started on a third--the dystopian novel I've been writing about.  The ideas come almost faster than I can get them on paper.  The worst is that in contemplating the novels and the writing, I lose some of the details I've designed in my mind.  The reason I mention this is that I'm using my own advice on developing a novel--the advice I've been sharing here for a few years.  As I write my techniques down, I gain a greater and greater appreciation for the need to organize and properly develop a novel.  I'm showing how you can bring a novel into existence from a simple theme statement.  The theme statement I've been using is the one just above.  I should probably clean out the Valeska information, but I haven't developed the publishing information yet for Lilly.  I haven't had the time to even compile Lilly into a single document for my readers and publisher.  When I have an opportunity, I'll show you the advertising and presentation information.

I'll get back to the details tomorrow, but I wanted to mention that using the ideas I've been describing for you allows me to build a novel very quickly.  I don't use or advocate any kind of template, but rather, classical design of a novel using time tested methods to organize, develop, and begin writing a novel.  I wish I'd known these ideas when I wrote my first novel.  As I wrote, these are classic methods for novel development--the only problem is that few people teach how to write a novel.  I developed these ideas from classes and experience I had in evaluating classical literature--what worked for the masters certainly can work for you and me.  Ill not say writing any novel is easy, but it certainly is easier when you understand the basic elements, how to begin, and where you are going.
             
More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 254, more Plot Protagonist's Helper Characters and Plot, How to Develop Storyline

20 December 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 254, more Plot Protagonist's Helper Characters and Plot, How to Develop Storyline

Announcement: My new novels should be available from any webseller or can be ordered from any brick and mortar bookstore.  Information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my newest novel, Valeska, is this: while on assignment in Gdansk, Poland, an agent of the organization becomes involved with a vampire girl during a mission, she becomes dependent on the agent, and she is redeemed.

Here is my proposed cover for Valeska:

I decided on a white cover style.  You can see more at www.GoddessofDarkness.com.

I started writing on my newest novel.  Here is the theme statement: a girl in a fascist island nation will do anything to escape--a young cargo ferry pilot not following the rules crashes on the island.

This theme statement lends itself well to each part of the development of a novel.  Note, there is a setting, an initial scene, protagonist, protagonist helper, antagonist, and the climax is obvious.  Let's talk about each.

In the land of Freedom, the fictional country where my newest novel is set, the people are controlled through a death-punishment concept with an incentive of addicting drugs and small awards.  If a citizen's value becomes too low, or they commit a crime, their organs and/or endocrine fluids will be harvested.  They don't use anesthetics.  The point of the society is to keep your value high enough so you are worth more than the value of your organs.  We will also discover that organs are harvested based on blood and genetic type for transplants to the Party members. In this case, value may have little effect.  What the Party members want, they get.  You can see his is the typical socialistic society where the winners are chosen through political connections.  In this case, like the Soviet Union or Communist China, the Party members are born to their positions.

Death-punishment is the punishment side of the incentives--you go to the hospital and don't return.  The incentive side is very simple.  At the bottom end, each citizen is provided a euphoric drug.  The drugs are of a few types, but have the same basic addictive properties.  They also have other drugs in them to effect population and social control.  For example, the greens provide birth control, removal of sexual desire, passivity, and the euphoric effects.  All normal citizens get the greens.  Browns are for specials and provide increased sense acuity and the euphoria.  Blues are given t the reproducing partners.  They get rid of the birth control and removal of sexual desire, but keep the passivity and the euphoric effects.  The small awards are given to only the top performers in the nation--patriotic medals.


             
More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 253, Plot Protagonist's Helper Characters and Plot, How to Develop Storyline

19 December 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 253, Plot Protagonist's Helper Characters and Plot, How to Develop Storyline

Announcement: My new novels should be available from any webseller or can be ordered from any brick and mortar bookstore.  Information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my newest novel, Valeska, is this: while on assignment in Gdansk, Poland, an agent of the organization becomes involved with a vampire girl during a mission, she becomes dependent on the agent, and she is redeemed.

Here is my proposed cover for Valeska:

I decided on a white cover style.  You can see more at www.GoddessofDarkness.com.

I started writing on my newest novel.  Here is the theme statement: a girl in a fascist island nation will do anything to escape--a young cargo ferry pilot not following the rules crashes on the island.

This theme statement lends itself well to each part of the development of a novel.  Note, there is a setting, an initial scene, protagonist, protagonist helper, antagonist, and the climax is obvious.  Let's talk about each.

In my newest novel, working name Escape, about the nation Freedom, I am showing an extrapolation of a completely beneficent socialistic culture.  What happens when the state takes care of everyone and everything belongs to the state.  This isn't so odd an extrapolation as it might sound.  The old Soviet Union and the Communist Chinese, to name two nations that were exactly this way.  People can't imagine the horrors of such a society. 

I set my new novel in the future on another planet--just for grins.  This future technology allows greater control of the citizens than the Soviet Union or Communist China could accomplish.  Technology allows the simple control of the citizens through drugs, computer tracking, social conditioning, and a death punishment structure.  The lack of a complete death-punishment structure is the only thing that prevented the Soviet Union or Communist China from fully controlling their states.  Also the inability to value citizens based on their capabilities and work hampered them.  Both nations collapsed because the paperwork of keeping track of these details destroyed them.  The Soviet Union just became another socialistic Western nation, and China became a controlled economy market that faces collapse every ten years.  Time will tell if a modern nation can break the bonds of private property and rights to take complete control of every aspect of the lives of their citizens.
             
More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 252, even more Protagonist's Helper Characters and Plot, How to Develop Storyline

18 December 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 252, even more Protagonist's Helper Characters and Plot, How to Develop Storyline

Announcement: My new novels should be available from any webseller or can be ordered from any brick and mortar bookstore.  Information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my newest novel, Valeska, is this: while on assignment in Gdansk, Poland, an agent of the organization becomes involved with a vampire girl during a mission, she becomes dependent on the agent, and she is redeemed.

Here is my proposed cover for Valeska:

I decided on a white cover style.  You can see more at www.GoddessofDarkness.com.

I started writing on my newest novel.  Here is the theme statement: a girl in a fascist island nation will do anything to escape--a young cargo ferry pilot not following the rules crashes on the island.

This theme statement lends itself well to each part of the development of a novel.  Note, there is a setting, an initial scene, protagonist, protagonist helper, antagonist, and the climax is obvious.  Let's talk about each.

Right now, I'm writing this new novel from the point of view (POV) of the protagonist's helper Scott Phillips.  Scott is the pilot who's cargo shuttle emergency landed on the island nation of Freedom.  Scott is an adventurous character and one not prone to follow rules very well.  You can already see he is going to have problems in Freedom--that is if Reb (Rebecka) can't help him control his impulses.  Remember, however, that Reb will do anything to escape Freedom.  She is very intelligent, but she hasn't had to use her intelligence to do much more than develop colors and scents for Freedom.

That's where Scott comes in.  Any protagonist's helper is supposed to showcase and help reveal the protagonist.  Scott's purpose will to do that, but also to, for lack of a better word, corrupt her to true Freedom.  His job will be to point out the differences between Freedom and true freedom.  This won't be hard to do, but the lessons are more than intellectual.  The experience of the protagonist and the protagonist's helper will become the experience of the reader in this novel.  I want the reader to viscerally feel the horror of Freedom--and I don't mean this allegorically.  Freedom, the nation, is the exact opposite of freedom the concept.  To the point that Reb's only possession is an ink pen she stole as a child.
             
More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com

Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 251, still more Protagonist's Helper Characters and Plot, How to Develop Storyline

17 December 2014, Writing Ideas - New Novel, part 251, still more Protagonist's Helper Characters and Plot, How to Develop Storyline

Announcement: My new novels should be available from any webseller or can be ordered from any brick and mortar bookstore.  Information can be found at www.ancientlight.com.  Check out my novels--I think you'll really enjoy them.

Introduction: I wrote the novel Aksinya: Enchantment and the Daemon. This was my 21st novel and through this blog, I gave you the entire novel in installments that included commentary on the writing. In the commentary, in addition to other general information on writing, I explained, how the novel was constructed, the metaphors and symbols in it, the writing techniques and tricks I used, and the way I built the scenes. You can look back through this blog and read the entire novel beginning with http://www.pilotlion.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-novel-part-3-girl-and-demon.html.

I'm using this novel as an example of how I produce, market, and eventually (we hope) get a novel published. I'll keep you informed along the way.

Today's Blog: To see the steps in the publication process, visit my writing website http://www.ldalford.com/ and select "production schedule," you will be sent to http://www.sisteroflight.com/.

The four plus one basic rules I employ when writing:

1. Don't confuse your readers.
2. Entertain your readers.
3. Ground your readers in the writing.
4. Don't show (or tell) everything.
5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

All novels have five discrete parts:
1.  The initial scene (the beginning)
2.  The rising action
3.  The climax
4.  The falling action
5.  The dénouement

The theme statement of my newest novel, Valeska, is this: while on assignment in Gdansk, Poland, an agent of the organization becomes involved with a vampire girl during a mission, she becomes dependent on the agent, and she is redeemed.

Here is my proposed cover for Valeska:

I decided on a white cover style.  You can see more at www.GoddessofDarkness.com.

I started writing on my newest novel.  Here is the theme statement: a girl in a fascist island nation will do anything to escape--a young cargo ferry pilot not following the rules crashes on the island.

This theme statement lends itself well to each part of the development of a novel.  Note, there is a setting, an initial scene, protagonist, protagonist helper, antagonist, and the climax is obvious.  Let's talk about each.

The development of a friend or lover is one of the best types of revelation in any novel.  That's why so many kids and young adult novels are about friends and friendship and so many adult and young adult novels are about love.  The development of love is a powerful human revelation.  Here is where I can help you see how character revelation works in a novel.  Note that the author has already "developed" the love relationship for the novel.  The author knows how the relationship has already developed--the point of the writing is to reveal that already developed relationship.  The point is the revelation and not the development.  To the reader, the revelation looks like a development, but it is simply a revelation of what the author has already determined. 

In any novel, the relationship between the protagonist and the protagonist's helper can be already developed (complete) or it can be developing.  In either case, the author shows us the relationship by revealing it in the novel.  In the case of the novel I am writing right now, the protagonist and the protagonist's helper meet for the first time after an aircraft accident.  They have never seen each other before.  The point of this novel is to reveal their developing relationship.
             
More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com