Erik Istrup's Blog
August 23, 2014
Novel in the works "The Dream Walker"
I started the novel, The Dream Walker when I received the words "The Dream Walker" as a title. I knew what a dream walker is, but initially I had no deeper feeling of what a book with this title should contain.
I gradually arose the need to collect many of the experiences I had, and have, on other lives, even if it were only fragments, and slowly emerged the idea of using a fictional character (though imbued with ME), who lived in the Atlantis period, at the time where dream walkers where used. This person is experiencing and describing these lives, spiced with the knowledge I have about the different periods and events, and will be presented as the book's author.
I just start somewhere in the story either with an idea in the form of a headline or a few descriptive sentences about what the text should be about.
Eventually, there will be several chapter headings and captions, and I will generate an index at the beginning of my text.
The amount of text grows, and I rearrange chapters or add them together.
Often I start a writing session by reading the index and feel where I want to write something. If I find a chapter that seems appealing, I read it through and maybe slightly change things along the way. Then I decide where in the text, I will deepen or add something.
It varies much how much I get written when I sit down to work. Sometimes it is only a few alterations or additions; maybe only a few lines. Other times it is multiple pages, but never a chapter from beginning to end.
My lyrics is to be sown, take root and otherwise looked after and cared for. I come across texts many times, and no text will be declared COMPLETE, before the book is finally completed and ready for printing. Even during the final editing of the books lay out, among other things, control of page breaks, section start and inferences, and all the other curiosities that may occur while the layout exits, there may be changes.
Then I need someone else's input and critics in order to make the novel the best possible experience for the eventual reader.
I have to finish the book with layout and everything, so my critics can get the best possible experience as "a final reader".
Read more about the book ...
I gradually arose the need to collect many of the experiences I had, and have, on other lives, even if it were only fragments, and slowly emerged the idea of using a fictional character (though imbued with ME), who lived in the Atlantis period, at the time where dream walkers where used. This person is experiencing and describing these lives, spiced with the knowledge I have about the different periods and events, and will be presented as the book's author.
I just start somewhere in the story either with an idea in the form of a headline or a few descriptive sentences about what the text should be about.
Eventually, there will be several chapter headings and captions, and I will generate an index at the beginning of my text.
The amount of text grows, and I rearrange chapters or add them together.
Often I start a writing session by reading the index and feel where I want to write something. If I find a chapter that seems appealing, I read it through and maybe slightly change things along the way. Then I decide where in the text, I will deepen or add something.
It varies much how much I get written when I sit down to work. Sometimes it is only a few alterations or additions; maybe only a few lines. Other times it is multiple pages, but never a chapter from beginning to end.
My lyrics is to be sown, take root and otherwise looked after and cared for. I come across texts many times, and no text will be declared COMPLETE, before the book is finally completed and ready for printing. Even during the final editing of the books lay out, among other things, control of page breaks, section start and inferences, and all the other curiosities that may occur while the layout exits, there may be changes.
Then I need someone else's input and critics in order to make the novel the best possible experience for the eventual reader.
I have to finish the book with layout and everything, so my critics can get the best possible experience as "a final reader".
Read more about the book ...
