I’m still riding the high wave of mania. That’s okay if one can channel the extra energy into some purposeful task. I finished the first draft of Chapter 1 of the new book yesterday morning. I’ll need a week or so to give it a number good reads looking for those errors that hide from your eyes. Having had a number of different keyboarding jobs in the past (word processing and typesetting), it’s not surprising that their are always a number of works that come out rong. Primarily this will be sort of a children’s book, rated mature; some what like Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five or The Children's Crusade. I’d like to make it rated teen, but Chapter 1 has graphic violence experienced by the protagonist when forced to witness a number of executions as punishment for the crime he committed. The executions are quite gory. Why, well you’ll have to read the chapter. (Which I am contemplating posting on the Sneak Peeks forum; when, I’m not certain.) As I see it now, this chapter will be the worst, but you never know, maybe I'll throw in a murder or a little off-camera sex. Interestingly, there is a homosexual in Chapter 1.

Chapter 2 (started yesterday afternoon) on the other hand is more mental, maybe PG. It deals with a method of esoteric meditation that I practiced when I worked at the University of Puget Sound and took a couple classes from a PhD who was well versed in esoteric practices and studies. To this day, I remember when he taught a class about alpha and omega; I suppose most people have no idea where that came from. He was also an ordained United Methodist minister, a sort of a requirement to work in the religion department of a college that is or was loosely aligned with the United Methodists, who originally founded the school.

I kind of know where this book is going, but the way I tell stories is more of a spur of the moment kind of thing. It’s that mania thing again. I do know I’m going to structure it in much the same way William Faulkner wrote A Fable. Each chapter will center on a different character, characters, or events that will lead to the final END. The biggest problem right now is I'm dealing with 11 year-olds. That's there physical age, not their mental because, like between 11 and 12 it takes 20 years to achieve a physical age of 12, while their brains continue to evolve as more and more information is injested. That's what I like about sci-fi, you can come up with the silliest shit and in the end it all makes sense.

I do know I will write the as much of the book while I’m still high. Maybe, I’ll be able to finish it before the end of the year. Highs do last that long. I just don’t want to get halfway and have to stop because I fell into a never ending funk.