Is It Fictional?

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Is It Fictional?

I've begun to wonder if anyone thought so. At this point the Nation of Earth is still conceptual, to be certain...

What do we do with concepts? If you've seen my Tellurian Motors blog, you know I sometimes draw them -- but those are mere automotive concepts, and it seems I can spend more time on a description than on a sketch. Can I sketch the Nation of Earth? Maybe, but I'm not sure how, so I write about it.

Recently a new friend (as only a new friend can do) got me to reexamine my life. What was I doing with it? Well, I got to thinking about the things I like to do, that I'm also fairly good at, and that could be listed as actual occupations -- and out of those, the one that suits me best is writing. I decided to take a short story I started last February, and turn it into a novel.

I figured, since it was set in the near future, within the novel I could describe my vision -- where Earth Humans have become united against, and have overcome, the oppressive influences of the few over the many...

However as I began to place my main character in a new setting something very unexpected, astonishing, and important happened. In my musings, I stumbled upon a technology that has the power to transform our lives -- and our global society -- more than anything has before!

No, I can't tell you about it. What I CAN tell you is that it will make sense, within the novel at least, how something like that can be the catalyst for a peaceful global unification -- and then admittance into 'Galactic Society'.

At first I was so caught up in the ramifications, so absorbed with what all this would mean to my protagonist, and dealing with all the new developments, that I couldn't write anything but notes in e-mails to a couple of close friends (my oldest, and my newest -- you know who you are). I knew that anything I wrote could quickly become obsolete, so I decided to wait out the hectic holiday season and now...

For now it's all settled down in my head, and the kids will very soon be back in school, so then as I sit here in front of this screen as I almost invariably do I'll be laying down pages.


Wish me luck.



Phil Smith
Novelist
January 1st, 2008

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"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
- Honore de Balzac

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
- Marie Curie

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
- Jimi Hendrix

“Peace in the world must begin first within the heart and purpose and mind of the individual…[for] as individuals change themselves and their interactions with one another, eventually the world cannot help but follow.”
- Edgar Cayce

"It is no measure of health to be sane in an insane society."
- Krishnamurti

"Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane."
- Philip K. Dick

"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."
- Shana Alexander

"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."
- Daniel Webster

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