Virtual Dreamer

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Yes I'm working on a novel called Virtual Dreamer.  I'm still sketching it out and any actual writing I may have done is subject to revision, or more likely, deletion.
Should I share my sketches in this space?  Somehow I don't think so.  I've shared the early stages of this book with my oldest and best friend, who serves as a (mostly silent) sounding board, and the young tattooed psychologist (and Army veteran) pinup model who made me realize that writing a novel is what I should do.

Alana Spence AKA Alana LaLure (my muse, if you will) asked me a simple question, "What are you doing with your life?"

I thought about that.

Then I decided to take a short story I hadn't finished and turn it into a novel, because it just may be that the one thing I can do to contribute financially, for my family, after having sworn off 'employment', is to embark on a creative project that could sell -- with no overhead, nothing to spend on materials, just the sweat of my intellectual brow.

Immediately the project took on a whole new life when I realized holography could never match up to lucid dreaming, and so my main character, a gamer and game writer, was transformed.

Of course then I felt compelled to tell the story of how the technology for Virtual Dreaming is developed, and I had to assemble a cast of characters who would be involved.  My hope is that readers will genuinely care about them, and obsessively turn the pages to find out what happens next.  Along the way readers will catch a glimpse of what it's like to be a geek, and may even begin to care about automobiles, especially electric ones.
I'm putting an astonishing number of my previous daydreams into this, and what's even more astonishing is how well they fit together as parts of a story.  I feel as if all my experiences have been leading up to this -- and that's a good feeling.

Interests scattered for as long as I can remember, I now have one medium to focus on, and a title:  Novelist.

The technology I'll describe has the power to change the world, for the better.  I'm kinda hoping a few geeks in the right fields will read my book and make the right parts come true.

Stay crunchy.
- fil
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