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Hello to anyone still out there,
For the first five days of next month, you can download my latest eBook for free!
I just want to thank you for reading. It's been a while. I've really been questioning whether I want to continue writing here in this format, and I've been experimenting with other creative outlets. You're not missing much during this pause in blogging. The last dream I can remember is a guy sleeping with a daughter and her mother, then sealing them both into a trash can with a live rat.
It's very hard for me to describe the feelings I've been wrestling with. They've been overwhelming at times to the point that I lose sleep and lose my appetite. My feelings about writing revolve around anxiety, identity, and ego... not knowing how to handle conflict, and not feeling as though I can trust myself to do the right thing when it comes to what I should and should not say. I have a poor understanding of the right firmness which is required to go through life. I don't know how to handle all of these feelings yet.
But I have written Lost Atlantis 4 in the meantime. I am only planning five books at this point, so... one more left before I can die happy! I literally have dreamed that I've died and the only thing I can think of in the afterlife is how I didn't finish this series. Have I already blogged that dream?
I'm in my bed, and I realize that I've died. The afterlife isn't quite what I expected. It has the old, regular human life in it, but it's somehow outside of it too, and the senses one uses and the beings one interacts with are different. I can go throughout all of the Earth and no living humans can see me. There's a totally different set of other beings like me meandering throughout this alternative layer of reality alongside me, and I can interact with them, and they seem nice enough. They're quiet. But what I can't do is go to heaven--all because of one thing: the regret and other emotions I have over not finishing the Lost Atlantis series. There's nothing else in my life that I regret but that, and that's enough to keep me stuck on planet Earth. I keep ruminating about it. I don't know why it's keeping me on Earth instead of heaven.
I have other dreams about needing to finish this series all the time. For example, I dreamed the other day that I was clicking through the previews of these books on Amazon, and I thought to myself, "Oh! This was written by a person that hasn't been born yet!" And it felt as though I meant it chronologically rather than spiritually.
I have quite a few other story ideas, but they don't give me persistent dreams and nightmares like the Lost Atlantis series has over the years. I think I can die happy without writing those, thank goodness! (Because it really does take away time from more financially-profitable efforts!)
Anyway, this fourth installment is a really, really short book. It's novella-length. I felt as though the characters were well established, the setting is well-known to us, and the main character has matured, so there is less to say. I'm rereading the 1st book for republication, and the intensity of emotion is shocking, even to me. But I think that the writing style and plot is okay if one can tolerate the powerful emotions. This 4th book is quite different though. It's fast and simple. In this installment, I talk about Sandi as a superhero--what her superpowers are and how she got them. It's also a romance.
This book has been plotted out in my mind for at least a decade. Everything that came before is in service of this installment of the series. I think it's still basically understandable even if it's the first Lost Atlantis book you've read. So please check it out! It's free to pick up a copy for Kindle on the first five days of September, and it's $2.99 USD as its regular price. It would really mean a lot to me if you were to read it, and hopefully enjoy it! Thank you!
