Writing - part x910, Writing a Novel, Changing World and Centralization of Credit

5 July 2019, Writing - part x910, Writing a Novel, Changing World and Centralization of Credit

Announcement: Delay, my new novels can be seen on the internet, but my primary publisher has gone out of business—they couldn’t succeed in the past business and publishing environment.  I'll keep you informed, but I need a new publisher.  More 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 websites 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.

     4a. Show what can be seen, heard, felt, smelled, and tasted on the stage of the novel.

5. Immerse yourself in the world of your writing.

These are the steps I use to write a novel including the five discrete parts of a novel:

1.     Design the initial scene

2.     Develop a theme statement (initial setting, protagonist, protagonist’s helper or antagonist, action statement)

a.     Research as required

b.     Develop the initial setting

c.     Develop the characters

d.     Identify the telic flaw (internal and external)

3.     Write the initial scene (identify the output: implied setting, implied characters, implied action movement)

4.     Write the next scene(s) to the climax (rising action)

5.     Write the climax scene

6.     Write the falling action scene(s)

7.     Write the dénouement scene

I finished writing my 29^th novel, working title, Detective, potential title Blue Rose: Enchantment and the Detective.  The theme statement is: Lady Azure Rose Wishart, the Chancellor of the Fae, supernatural detective, and all around dangerous girl, finds love, solves cases, breaks heads, and plays golf.  

Here is the cover proposal for Blue Rose: Enchantment and the Detective. 

Cover Proposal

The most important scene in any novel is the initial scene, but eventually, you have to move to the rising action. I am continuing to write on my 30^th novel, working title Red Sonja.  I finished my 29^th novel, working title Detective.  I’m planning to start on number 31, working title Shifter. 

How to begin a novel.  Number one thought, we need an entertaining idea.  I usually encapsulate such an idea with a theme statement.  Since I’m writing a new novel, we need a new theme statement.  Here is an initial cut.

For novel 30:  Red Sonja, a Soviet spy, infiltrates the X-plane programs at Edwards AFB as a test pilot’s administrative clerk, learns about freedom, and is redeemed.

For novel 31:  Deirdre and Sorcha are redirected to French finishing school where they discover difficult mysteries, people, and events. 

Here is the scene development outline:

1. Scene input (comes from the previous scene output or is an initial scene)

2. Write the scene setting (place, time, stuff, and characters)

3. Imagine the output, creative elements, plot, telic flaw resolution (climax) and develop the tension and release.

4. Write the scene using the output and creative elements to build the tension.

5. Write the release

6. Write the kicker

          

Today:  Why don’t we go back to the basics and just writing a novel?  I can tell you what I do, and show you how I go about putting a novel together.  We can start with developing an idea then move into the details of the writing. 

To start a novel, I picture an initial scene.  I may start from a protagonist or just launch into mental development of an initial scene.  I get the idea for an initial scene from all kinds of sources.  To help get the creative juices flowing, let’s look at the initial scene. 

1.     Meeting between the protagonist and the antagonist or the protagonist’s helper

2.     Action point in the plot

3.     Buildup to an exciting scene

4.     Indirect introduction of the protagonist

The protagonist is the novel and the initial scene.  If you look at the four basic types of initial scenes, you see the reflection of the protagonist in each one.  If you noticed my examples yesterday, I expressed the scene idea, but none were completely independent of the protagonist.  Indeed, in most cases, I get an idea with a protagonist.  The protagonist is incomplete, but a sketch to begin with.  You can start with a protagonist, but in my opinion, as we see above, the protagonist is never completely independent from the initial scene.  As the ideas above imply, we can start with the characters, specifically the protagonist, antagonist or protagonist’s helper, and develop an initial scene. 

Let’s look at a subject that is really ignored in the modern era.  I’m not certain how much this can help your current writing.  I would argue that theoretically, this subject can really help those who write historical and futuristic fiction.  It depends on how your write your historical and futuristic fiction.  There are two ways to write historical fiction—let’s look at this.

The first and most common way to write historical fiction is to write a novel that projects modern ideas and history as historical ideas and history.  In other words to present modern ideas and historical ideas as the same.  I think this is perhaps the most egregious and perverse means of presenting a false view of history.  The author is either completely ignorant of the past, is intentionally attempting to education people in a false view of history, or both.  The real historical world is very different both culturally and socially from our current world.  The true author attempts to convey this in historical writing.

The second and less common means of historical writing is to actually incorporate the past into a novel to convey the actual way people thought and acted in the past.  This approach actually goes back into time to give a complete view of the way the people thought and acted.  To this end, let’s look at how the world changed and how people thought in the past.  This is more of a historical look at the world for the purpose of understanding how the world worked in the past and how people thought and acted.  We’ll use historical information to see what concerned affected their lives. Here is a list of potential issues.  We’ll look at them in detail:

1.   Vocabulary

2.   Ideas

3.   Social construction

4.   Culture

5.   Politics

6.   History

7.   Language

8.   Common knowledge

9.   Common sense

10. Reflected culture

11. Reflected history

12. Reflected society

13. Truth

14. Food

15. Money

16. Weapons and warfare

17. Transportation

18. Communication

19. Writing

20. Education

In the modern era with the advent of ubiquitous police and the government control of many aspects of society, it becomes very simple to exert control over an entire society.  Marx expressed this in the Communist Manifesto.  Everyone should be familiar with these procedures.  I’ll add a couple of ideas that Marx never would have thought of. 

The scientific means to control a conquered people or to take over a society from within from the Communist Manifesto:

1.     Abolition of Property in Land and Application of all Rents of Land to Public Purpose.

2.     A Heavy Progressive or Graduated Income Tax.

3.     Abolition of All Rights of Inheritance.

4.     Confiscation of the Property of All Emigrants and Rebels.

5.     Centralization of Credit in the Hands of the State, by Means of a National Bank with State Capital and an Exclusive Monopoly.

6.     Centralization of the Means of Communication and Transport in the Hands of the State.

7.     Extension of Factories and Instruments of Production Owned by the State, the Bringing Into Cultivation of Waste Lands, and the Improvement of the Soil Generally in Accordance with a Common Plan.

8.     Equal Liability of All to Labor. Establishment of Industrial Armies, Especially for Agriculture.

9.     Combination of Agriculture with Manufacturing Industries; Gradual Abolition of the Distinction Between Town and Country by a More Equable Distribution of the Population over the Country.

10.  Free Education for All Children in Public Schools. Abolition of Children's Factory Labor in it's Present Form. Combination of Education with Industrial Production.      

11.  The control of healthcare by government and the abolition of private healthcare.

12.  The abolition of cash money.

13.  The disarmament of the people and the arming of secret police forces under the control of the government.   

I added three other planks.  We see theses being used by modern societies to control the populace.  I think Marx left off the control of arms because he assumed the other mechanisms would allow full control of the people.  Let’s look at and evaluate how governments and societies have used these ten planks to enforce their control and goals on nations.

1. Centralization of Credit in the Hands of the State, by Means of a National Bank with State Capital and an Exclusive Monopoly.

One of the great purposes of a legitimate government is the establishment of a safe and legal currency.  Once you have such a thing, you have capitalism.  Capitalism is a natural economic system just like barter is.  This is why the Constitution of the USA requires the government to set the value of money.  It does not give the government the control of money or finances.  Somehow the modern government and courts seemed to miss that point because we have a centralized national bank covered by state capital and with almost an exclusive monopoly.  Not quite.

We haven’t gone all the way yet—there is still private banks and not completely a monopoly on credit of the control of money.  There are still significant problems.  The main purpose of a centralized control of credit through a national bank is the control of money and private business affairs.  In reality, the government has much more nefarious reasons for control.  The first is inflation.

You can’t inflate a hard commodity based currency.  So in a gold standard, you can’t inflate currency very easily.  If you have a national bank, it is very easy to inflate currency.  Perhaps some explanation is due.  In the past, there was no national bank in the USA.  Banks were all private.  The government set the value of the dollar and banks either printed currency note or coined actual money.  The government set the value of money, but the banks, based on their holdings printed or coined money.  This is the way currency is supposed to work.  The private banks couldn’t inflate currency because they couldn’t print or coin more money than their holdings.  Very stable and very good.  Then came along the national bank.

A national bank can print all the money they want.  As long as they are under a gold standard and the government sets the value of the dollar, they aren’t supposed to print more money than they have in gold and commodities in their vaults, but then something horrible happened.  The USG took us off a gold standard.  The result in the world was horrific, but result for the common person was the automatic devaluation of currency and their buying power every day, month, year, and date for ever.

Without a gold standard, the currency is called a fiat currency.  The currency value is no longer set by the congress, it varies based on the amount in circulation and the ultimate value of the backing entities—basically the USA.  The problem with a fiat currency is that it ultimately has no value at all—the value is based on the full baking of the USG and the value of the USA.  There ain’t no there there.  The national bank can inflate the currency at will.

Keynes was a bad economist and a bad person.  He convinced governments that their national banks should always have inflation because inflation was good.  He misidentified inflation for growth.  Inflation is not growth.  You can’t have inflation with a commodity backed currency.  Keynes told banks and governments to intentionally inflate currency to give the indication of growth.  In addition, governments pay their bills with preinflated dollars, the people always pay with post inflated dollars.  This is what governments want to do and it screws the people.  That’s exactly what happens today.         

The central banks sets a 2 to 3% inflation target and forces inflation by producing currency based on value and commodities it doesn’t have.  This means that every year your money reduces in value by 2 to 3% per year.  You lose 2 to 3% of the value of all your money every year.  This is like the government stealing 2 to 3% of your money every year.  Luckily, your property increases by approximately the value of inflation per year, but if you notice, people before the end of the gold standard saw the real value of their property increase based not on inflation, but on real value—today, every increase is based on inflation.  It’s fake.  It screws the citizen, and it enriches the government at the expense of the citizen.  In addition, inflationary growth is no growth at all—it’s fake.

If I have 3% inflation, the value of my money and everything is supposed to decrease by 3% per year.  If I have growth of 2%, that means 2% growth minus 3% inflation equals -1% growth.  Growth of 3% with 3% inflation is zero growth.  I’m not sure Marx intended this kind of government activity, but he would applaud it.

The control of inflation and currency by the USG controls and defrauds everything in the economy.  It puts money in the hands of the government directly from the pockets of the people.  At this moment, the national bank doesn’t have a monopoly on credit.

A monopoly on credit as Marx expressed, gives the government complete control over businesses and capital.  Instead of going to a market based bank that you can compete for interest rate, the government control of credit forces you to go to a national bank that can charge any rate of credit it likes.  Without a market why not 10% or 50% credit?  Why not 50% for a wealthy person and 10% for the poor?  Why not Freddie and Fanny, government controlled credit holders—whoops, they already cost us billions of dollars in mishandling and government maleficence.  A government controlled bank causes moral hazard and steals value from a society—this is why it wasn’t allowed by the constitution.  Why do we have it now?

More tomorrow.

For more information, you can visit my author site http://www.ldalford.com/, and my individual novel websites:

http://www.ancientlight.com/
http://www.aegyptnovel.com/
http://www.centurionnovel.com
http://www.thesecondmission.com/
http://www.theendofhonor.com/
http://www.thefoxshonor.com
http://www.aseasonofhonor.com  

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