How Writers Transcend the Ego

One of the greatest joys of writing is that it allows authors to be so much more than who any one really is. The very worst cases of spirit possession and split personalities ultimately have far fewer characters than many novels.

Most of those who have grown up at some point heard the dictum: "Imagine being in the other person's situation." Wow, do fiction authors ever do that, with a vengeance. Not only do novelists - and by proxy, the stories' readers, imagine someone else's situation, they orchestrate a phenomenal number of possible scenarios and learn about how certain characters behave given those situations.

Many authors do discover even as they write, making it a mysterious process even for those involved. Some characters turn out to be a bit different from how one might have expected. People are both predictable and unpredictable in their behavior. Sometimes this makes real life easier to handle. Many authors get readers so worked up that when its done, for the first few minutes back in reality readers feel the same relief we experience when we wake up from a nightmare and start babbling, "Thank God that wasn't true," and things like that. Other times, people feel like they have experienced "a guided meditation" without limits on posture and breathing that might leave even well trained Lamas awash with a sense of 'experience'. Journeys of the mind.

This blog post can be linked with http://miriamspia.wordpress.com/ for a more complete understanding. FYI: novel writing and being great fans of fiction are not a good match for Buddhism - because they say that if you thought it has happened...in which case: OMG! you would not believe what the novelists and story writers have done! Some of it, readers have done to.

New Day

Hello there. There is an old song by a band called Jethro Tull. In one of their songs there is the line, "It was a new day yesterday, but its an old day now."

Right now, this blog seems a bit like this.

I first began this blog hoping to find out who would like an SF series about mercenaries that stars a man in the full flushes of middle age" age 52, and a young woman who is 23 years old. They are not lovers, but become a team. In some ways she is 'above him' - she is the boss, but somehow he is her mentor, but on a very personal level. She is an officer; he is a Sergeant.

Now, I have noticed that some people have actually been reading the novel An Adventure in Indianapolis over at myebook.com and this is very exciting for me. If any of you readers come across this blog, please attach comments as I would love to hear from you.

I have some other ideas, but if anyone wants a sequel, I need to know as I aim to please.