I promised you that I would tell you how THE GOD GAMES: Legend of Kor came to be written, and so we will begin at the very beginning.
The first thing to be noted is that I am Bi-Polar and am rapid-cycling, which means that I have frequent shifts in mood between what is sometimes a deep depression and long stretches of being manic. When I am manic my brain seems to work at a very high speed and I sometimes have several projects going at once. I might be illustrating a story for my granddaughter, painting a picture for a new great-grandchild, typing on the book, and writing a third book in all the "empty" moments. My brain seems to have very fertile dreams with a great deal of detail and recently I have even begun to remember my dreams the next day. I seem to live the stories at night and work out the details of the story in a very general sense. It is when I sit down to put pen to paper that the real details begin to flow from SOMEWHERE??
One day, in 2008, shortly after the passing of my daughter, Rebecca, I was very depressed and in deep mourning. One morning as I doodled on a pad of paper I heard a still small voice inside of my soul that said very simply, "Davalene, I want you to write down what you are going to hear. You are going to write a book in which ONE expresses His love for and acceptance of every one of His children, exactly as they are right now. But you are going to write it hidden inside the story of four energynauts who are sent by ONE to help answer the prayers of His children across the Cosmos. It will be a three-book set of stories following the actions of the four energynauts as they address issues in several dimensions and on several different planets across several universes in the Cosmos.
I was told that many people around the world would also be writing about the subjects of love and the unity of all humankind. That a revolution of love was afoot and all of the writers would address those issues in a slightly different manner so that no matter what you liked to read, the subjects would be covered. I was told that people hunger for acceptance and approval and that my books were to speak to each person's heart to let them know that they were unique and loved just as they are.
The rest just "happens." I do research to get my facts straight, or at least colorfully so, think about my dreams, say a prayer for inspiration and then put my pen on the paper and start writing. But it is like "magic", suddenly I am writing from some character's point of view that I had never thought of before. As I write, the character takes on its own personality and grows as the story moves along. I am rarely sure where the story is going to next, or what a character will end up saying, so I just write what I hear in my mind and somehow an intricate pattern develops and the story moves on to its conclusion. When I begin to study what I have written I am usually amazed at what it says because up until then the thoughts had not been in my conscious mind. I am not sure how much being bi-polar affects my writing, but I suspect that it is a direct connection-not that all writers are bi-polar (I would be interested in how they receive their inspiration though)-but that in my case my brain chemistry does give me a leg up in that I have been able to grow and develop into using both sides of my brain and so can see a problem from many directions at once.
Legend of Kor, is a story about a horrible holocaust and an evil dictator, Gog, who has determined to exterminate the hated orange Wales and enslave the blue Emons and lavender Vouns. As a green Selve, Gog hates every other race because of their different colors and cultures. I released my fervent feelings about the Holocaust in this story and felt like I was fighting the battle with my own fists, and definitely with my heart.
Tomorrow, will be a short preview of the other two books in the Trilogy so that you can see how the story moves along.
The first thing to be noted is that I am Bi-Polar and am rapid-cycling, which means that I have frequent shifts in mood between what is sometimes a deep depression and long stretches of being manic. When I am manic my brain seems to work at a very high speed and I sometimes have several projects going at once. I might be illustrating a story for my granddaughter, painting a picture for a new great-grandchild, typing on the book, and writing a third book in all the "empty" moments. My brain seems to have very fertile dreams with a great deal of detail and recently I have even begun to remember my dreams the next day. I seem to live the stories at night and work out the details of the story in a very general sense. It is when I sit down to put pen to paper that the real details begin to flow from SOMEWHERE??
One day, in 2008, shortly after the passing of my daughter, Rebecca, I was very depressed and in deep mourning. One morning as I doodled on a pad of paper I heard a still small voice inside of my soul that said very simply, "Davalene, I want you to write down what you are going to hear. You are going to write a book in which ONE expresses His love for and acceptance of every one of His children, exactly as they are right now. But you are going to write it hidden inside the story of four energynauts who are sent by ONE to help answer the prayers of His children across the Cosmos. It will be a three-book set of stories following the actions of the four energynauts as they address issues in several dimensions and on several different planets across several universes in the Cosmos.
I was told that many people around the world would also be writing about the subjects of love and the unity of all humankind. That a revolution of love was afoot and all of the writers would address those issues in a slightly different manner so that no matter what you liked to read, the subjects would be covered. I was told that people hunger for acceptance and approval and that my books were to speak to each person's heart to let them know that they were unique and loved just as they are.
The rest just "happens." I do research to get my facts straight, or at least colorfully so, think about my dreams, say a prayer for inspiration and then put my pen on the paper and start writing. But it is like "magic", suddenly I am writing from some character's point of view that I had never thought of before. As I write, the character takes on its own personality and grows as the story moves along. I am rarely sure where the story is going to next, or what a character will end up saying, so I just write what I hear in my mind and somehow an intricate pattern develops and the story moves on to its conclusion. When I begin to study what I have written I am usually amazed at what it says because up until then the thoughts had not been in my conscious mind. I am not sure how much being bi-polar affects my writing, but I suspect that it is a direct connection-not that all writers are bi-polar (I would be interested in how they receive their inspiration though)-but that in my case my brain chemistry does give me a leg up in that I have been able to grow and develop into using both sides of my brain and so can see a problem from many directions at once.
Legend of Kor, is a story about a horrible holocaust and an evil dictator, Gog, who has determined to exterminate the hated orange Wales and enslave the blue Emons and lavender Vouns. As a green Selve, Gog hates every other race because of their different colors and cultures. I released my fervent feelings about the Holocaust in this story and felt like I was fighting the battle with my own fists, and definitely with my heart.
Tomorrow, will be a short preview of the other two books in the Trilogy so that you can see how the story moves along.
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