One Chapter, over 14600 words. Why? That's the way the vision manifested in my head. I'm a Pantser, a term for someone who doesn't bother laying out a plot, or defining characters before the story is well underway. An image or scene pops into my head and I start typing, and boom...another 20,000 words have been vomited on the page. I'm not saying they are good words, or that they are readable, but they become a backbone, and after a few years of tweaking, refining, polishing

Change clothes, switch hats, but underneath...the same character. The biggest trap for authors is dressing up the same story, the same plot, the same characters in new facades and saying it's original. It's why at times...I have to walk away.

Core Beliefs – Chapter 61 - Meet the Mandavilles Chris and Suchet were reorganizing the files at the silo when Chris stumbled on the paper by Dr. Ellis Mandaville that Doug discovered at Wheatley University while researching his thesis. Chris remembered how he and Suchet had intended to contact Dr. Mandaville, but Charley’s accident had sidetracked them, and the molecular linking breakthrough had pushed it further from their minds. After conferring with Matt, Chris placed