10/15/09
With Book 3, I finally was able to have Chronos do what she was intended to do. Travel. There is a whole world out there for her/the reader to learn about. I really wanted her be able to meet lots of new people. To be drawn into how the world had changed, in some cases reverted to olden days, and in other cases, which we will see later, gone off into a different direction.
The change I have made in the world are what I hope are logical conclusions to how different groups of peoples will react to such a massive change as a; what Chronos thought was a full scale Nuclear war.
6/10/09
Poems
I have come to realize that the poetic setting I add are not all done in Chronos’ voice. She is the majority. But for instance the the poem of Chapter 37, that voice is Seattle’s as he laments his lack of love life.
Many times it has been Nimrod speaking or in one case Godiva.
It is good to know that other characters have some voice in the small range of listening to Chronos go on and on. At least she is not depressed. I would have hated it if she was depressing. Oh wait, I would have never written about her that way.
5/22/09
I have at last found Chronos’ song. At first I was going to go with Mysterious Ways by U2 but decide that was far to cliche. Now I have a song that really fits her. It has an ostentatious name and is the most almost chaotic sound to it. (baring Phish; with the whole and the band is drunk sound)
Too review- I was watching one of Corwyn_ap’ s nephews playing guitar hero. He was playing the end credits because he won the game. This piece went on for 10 minutes. There were a lot of credits to that game.
Anyway, watching the scrolling bars of colored lights and listening to the song zip by, I kind of tuned it all out.
Until now.
Tonight I was listening to this song on the ipod and I thought; Wow this would be the kind of thing Chronos would listen to. You can’t really dance to it, other then in some kind moshpit, jumping all over the place with enthused motion. But if you listen you realize there is a lot of technique as the guitarist zips up and down the scales. It sounds fast, it sounds unplanned yet it is not. Even the words are planned, they could have been that bellowing shooting angry young man that many of the schools of fast music use. but it is understandable and even relevant.
If you think of Chronos in terms of music think of her playing “Thru the Fire and the Flames by Dragon Force in Sonic Firestorm. (isn’t it pompous sounding.) 
2/13/09
How did Chronos come about? Well one day I picked up my pen and started to write.
No, not really. I started out wanting to write about the Kindred. Let’s back up some.
I love to read. I read a lot, and am not too picky about what I read. Drama, Crime, Romance, Sci-fi, humor. you name it. I have favorites of course, who doesn’t.
Well I was reading Heinlein and I normally like his stuff. I have always liked his style and characters. But this time I found myself arguing. I didn’t agree with his concussion, I felt his ending was dry. There could have been so much more. I wanted more. So I started dreaming up the Kindred. And I fell in love with them.
But the whole Post- apocalyptic series has been done to death. And I wanted it to be -dare I say it- cheerful. So time frame gets moved up some, but some thing was still missing. A reason for them to leave paradise. A mysterious stranger is born.
But so often the stranger shows up saves the day and leaves. good riddance. Or they are all guilt ridden or something. I wanted some one who could yes take care of themselves, but was also altruistic and Flashy. I got Chronos.
Suddenly I realize these books are not about the Kindred any more, they are about Chronos. How she see them through her eyes. How she builds and binds the world around her together.
2/5/09
It took me freaking forever to realize that book 2 was a romance. At first, I chalked the whole Nimrod, Saul, Chronos triangle up to enrichment of character. I mean, I really had plans for Chronos to go to St. Louis. There is a whole bunch of things that she does while she is there and then boom!
Nimrod recommended someone else.
I then thought well, she can jump ship at the last minute, right. But she doesn’t. Then I had no choice but to pursue the relationship. And Wow. Not at all what I excepted. She had a depth of emotions that were just waiting to come to the surface.
Sigh this did knock me off track a little bit but in the end Chronos does get to travel. And here we get to see her figure out or remember the whole human dynamics thing.
Something new, something different that seems to be Chronos.
1/1/09
For Book two, I waffled back and forth because I really hated to do it; to edit out a number of *heavy* scenes between Nosis, Nimrod and Saul.
Yes they have sex in them, but after looking them over it was the level of detail that I was unsure about.
I really want to keep this in the General Audience realm. As it was these scenes didn’t move the plot along, much. But the chapters end up being choppy, Ghurrr, Argggh!
So in the end I left the heavy scenes in. some of the are intermixed with the plot and some of them I just liked. Lucky you. :
12/31/08
Alright you caught me, I was practicing how well I could write steamy romance. Maybe I went a little to far over board on it, but I felt that I needed to show how passionate Chronos is. And these three Characters need to have some humanness to them, so that they are not perfect or all sweetness and light.
10/29/08
Relationships.
I had a really hard time writing the dialogue between Chronos and Nimrod. He was so reluctant to have any relationship with Chronos. At first I tried to have her talk to him. but as you can tell the dialogue just came out weird and stilted. I spent hours changing her… ( speech, wording, ).. and the end result was not that she starts a relationship with Nimrod as she had hoped but she instead gets Saul, who in turn gets what he wants from both his lovers. After writing that scene I realized that Chronos was taking the wrong tact. She is a physical person. all of her focus is how she interacts with the physical universe at large.
10/08/08
I have introduced another character, Nimrod. At first it started out as a reason/excuse for Saul to not take Chronos up on her very generous offer. I didn’t like her first idea on the whys, Saul needed something better and real. Nimrod is way better. Nimrod also ended up changing where this book went.
10/01/08
Hey there, I have put together a view of what the compound looks like. I actually have maps and drawings, but alas I don’t have a scanner in which to put my pretty pictures (ha!) on the web site.
So I have added some detailed descriptions to the Technical page.
08/27/2008
Why all the poetry? Well that is a long story (ish). As I am not able to set this story to pictures, I am a lousy artist. I have chosen to paint with words or rather with known poetry. This way we all get our weekly dose of culture. That is one part of why.
07/09/2008
The hell with it, it is too nice at day, I am going out and prune the roses.
06/17//2008
When I started writing Chronos, I was not thinking about where my chapters were ending. In many cases the chapter would end when I got to a point where the action changed or slowed, or a new person was introduced.
But now I find that I want to keep my word count down to about 15hundred words per chapter. this has induced me to really find a definite point to stop. Along those lines they end up being… surprise, cliff hangers. It may very well explain why so many of the serial novels in the by gone days had so many cliff hanger. And there is the whole get your audience to come back for a second helping.
I actually hate cliff hanger, and now that I see the pattern I may try to actively work away from that.
Too many and it just feels like you are on a roller coaster ride that only has the down parts. And as my friend Carl says you can only puke some much before it all hurts too much to and you just want it to stop. Please god make the puking stop.
06/06/2008
On Chapter 13, I did some debate on how much of the teenage boy’s rape, did I want to include. One thought was if it was a comic or movie; there would Chronos, hiding. Then a snap shot of what she is watching. The boy collared and being ridden or what ever. easy to show and tell. Much harder from that kind of view to have Nosis on going thoughts in the middle of that, but every one understand after seeing something is not right.
Here I only have Chronos to understand the seriousness of what is going on. Plus I felt A: it did not help to move the story along. The point of the scene was equal opportunity abusers. B: I want to keep some of those things vague. It is my belief (and hope) that you readers have better imaginations than what I could possible tell.
05/28/2008
As I write more of Chronos’ adventures I can start to see things like the fact I devoted three chapters to the kidnapping of the kindred women and the travel that went in to it.
When writing it out I didn’t even notice. There is a part of me that thinks oh god three chapters about travel and abuse. But then I remember, most people in the United State have car and drive, they may have very little idea what it means to walk for days. You can just pop into your car and suddenly you are 20 miles from your home. 20 miles is considered a good days worth of travel if you are walking.
So part of all this travel was to show: Walking, even at a fast forced pace takes time. Distance start to mean something.
05/07/2008
I realize that some of my descriptions are in the “Very General” category. If it is Chronos talking about a subject that she doesn’t know very well, I want that to come across . If I the writer know more or some subjects then she does, it is my hopes that I don’t put too much “Meta” knowledge in the story. I realize that people like to read about the new places/ common places, being given colorful descriptions of what the characters are seeing. But what if the main character is someone with tunnel vision.
You will learn what Chronos knows. I realize this makes it difficult to “color” the story, but I am trying.
And sometime Chronos knows things that no one else knows. She is like that.
05/07/2008
I have made a small change to the format. Actually added too, I have put in a small break between scenes. Notice the nice sword that is there. This is some lovely clip art thanks to Karen’s Whimsy’s web site. She has found many pieces of clip art. All free. The are all soft pen and ink line drawings. Some what old fashion, but what I was looking for.
So a big thanks to Karen, keep up the good work.
04/23/08
Is Chronos the protagonist. Yes!
It just takes her while to change- mostly because she is so sure that she has learned everything she needs.
She is not a novice or something, she has trained and taken an oath and been on assignments. Now she finds that she must really put her oath to the test. to restrain in the use of her powers. to (god forbid) ask for help. And to give her trust in other people’s instincts. Even if she believes hers are better.
04/09/08
This week’s thoughts are about my Prologue.
At first I was not going to write prologue. I just going to let Chronos (or Nosis as Gwen calls her) tell her history in small bits. Opening up to the Kindred, her new friends and family. But as I read more and wrote more I realized that she needed to have some kind of explanation. (I do have a story of how she got to Missouri, a 100 years later.)
The one thing Chronos knows without reservation or doubts is the the universe is her friend(ish). She would not be alive if that were not so.
So I give you a prologue, a small hint of who she is right before getting flung through space and time…again.
04/07/08
I have added a Characters page and a Technical details page. It is my hope that this will help keep track of all the people who come into Chronos’ life as well as any interest but unrelated details that come up.
04/05/08
At first I was not going to give my chapters titles. But as I started to post I realized that the chapters needed names. For the sake of my sanity and anyone who reads this. I see this a multi book project and if you have read the books and try find old references it would soon get very confusing. I know I find it confusing. And the chapters for the most part lend themselves to names. I had even started to think of them in that manner.
04/01/08
I have been writing like a mad woman this week. In looking back, I see that this is both a blessing and a curse. Nice to know I am a head of my chapters. but that means more to edit. I hope I slow down so that I can do some proper editing. I takes me ages to finish a page. And even when it is done I see some thing that could be tweaked. Less in the realm of changing the wording more in the ‘did I just forget to put something there’. That and I think my keyboard is going.
Something strange has happened to my Header Picture. I Think the Custom Theme I was using has been made defunct. Oh joy.
03/22/08
I had hoped to incorporate more of the Kindred home life but I have found that too much exposition really drags the story down. (any one who as seen Shakespeare knows this)
So the learning curve for both groups will be on the fly.
At first there is the names and then the history. I want to do more on how they survived. As one can already tell they are not your average group of 1950’s survivalist, hiding in their bunkers. They have more going for them.
They wanted to be self-sufficient. they wanted to have a sense of community and life style.
most of all they want to protect those in the group. A very us or them attitude.
How will they react to the out side forces are what Chronos really wants to know.
Is she here to help them or destroy them. She can do either one and she will do it without reservations.
