I wrote Viewing Creation Encounter as a Sci-Fi space action novel. It was my first attempt at such a task, and I learned a lot about characters through the process. I also wrote it with the knowledge I gained from different web sites about astronomy and space programs as well as my personal knowledge about people from different cultures. Religion was also a subject in the novel. In my next novel I diverge from most of that and concentrate on characters and knowledge about Empaths.
I'm a Natural Empath. Some may ask what does that mean. We have heard of them in Sci-Fi stories but are they real? Yes they are real. But reality does not mimic fiction in this case. There are a variety of Empaths but they most all have a particular quality. That quality is that they are sensitive to emotions and pain of others. Thus Empaths suffer to one degree or another. Empaths also can train themselves to change their disability into an ability. That is a much preferable state than just suffering because for the Empath there is no real escape, just techniques to ease the suffering. In my next novel I embellish the abilities of the Empath and give him a Psychopath as a villain. Yes, its kind of like Superhero stuff.
The story is divided into two parts. These parts are seemingly two realities of similar time frame. With the writing, I differentiated the tow parts using two different grammatical persons. It seemed to fit the storyline and give it some credence. I have not come across any work that has done that. There are stories that will change the narrator, and in a sense that's what I'm doing.
The novel will be called Bill It's Me and I will put it out on Scribd.com for free just like Viewing Creation. I hope you can enjoy it and tell me if it works. Thanks for reading.
Very cool. Let me know when it's up. I know about Empaths and have spoken to a few. It can be hard, especially in today's world when there is so much pain around, to tone down the emotions you are bombarded with. Kudos to you for admitting your gift when others may call you crazy for it:-)
ReplyDeleteI've been able to sense spirits for years but the ability has always frightened me so I ignored it for awhile. As I've gotten in to a different spiritual path from my Christian upbringing, I'm finding that it's something I need to focus on and master. Maybe in honing the gift, I can help those I feel. Or maybe not:-)
Thanks for sharing!