★ ★ ★ ★ ★Characters & Viewpoint Highly recommend this book to writers who want to create fully dimensional characters that have the potential to transform the readers. From everything to how to choose a character’s name, to what kind of story you are telling (character story, with grand settings, mystery style, or dealing with disorders) Orson concisely and […]
I started writing novels in 1993, and I was much better in the 1990s than I am now. But I am relearning some of the craft that I lost in my ten year writer’s block (1998 to 2009). Compare these openings to my novel Silver Skies: RABBI DOR BEN HABAKKUK followed the rules of his religion, denied himself the woman […]
RACHEL/SURI DAVID SHALOM or ANTICHRIST ANTICHRIST has the COMMANDER personality type, which tends to make her/him cerebral and lacking in emotions. However, Suri is also a sociopath/psychopath, so she/he is filled with rage at God for expecting women to be in submission to men. She believes that women are actually superior to men and that because God is a male […]
Why does Dor Ben Habakkuk want a wife? He wants love and acceptance. But he won’t find acceptance until he learns to embrace spiritual freedom or the freedom to honor his conscience without the shackles of convention. Until he faces death straight in the face, so that he must choose between hate or love, he is always trying to pacify […]
Silver Skies: The Millennium
I am working on two novels at the same time, Silver Skies 1996 Version and its sequel Silver Skies: The Millennium. Will post more here as I work more on the novel. The following playlist seems to have music that expresses the themes to Silver Skies: The Millennium. I am studying The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien to get […]