Genesis of Heathen Hearts

The genesis of the story "Heathen Hearts" basically comes from my desire to write a story or a novel. I have written historical based articles for local newspapers but wanted to something,...bigger, more important. I tried a radio play once but never heard back,...I spent some years researching a novel that took place during the South African War(1899-1902) but left it idle long enough for Fred Stenson to produce a much better job of my idea.

I  had been writing a story with some success about seventeen years ago. I set up a routine of writing every evening after the kids went to bed and it was working well. Life came along and changed things enough that I have let that story slide. I may revive it one day but it was getting weird and the possible outcome was disturbing to me.

More recently I have been working on a "Viking Saga" and I'll post some of it here. I should have been working on it as a screenplay as there are so many Viking reenactors here in Alberta. The whole "gist" behind the story is something that could be filmed in Alberta and believably pass for Europe and Asia.

While working on the above story, the premise came into my head: what if you found out that in your younger days you had actually had a completely different life that had somehow been suppressed and blotted from your memory? Almost at once a series of characters clamored into my thoughts and demanded that I write their story. My wife calls these people my "imaginary friends" and they have been with me for over a year and a half.

The story of their life in the mid 1970s and thirty years later has been written. It took a year to write and I do mean write. I filled eight scribbler/notebooks before the telling was told. I am now in the process of typing a "first" rewrite, getting it onto computer and saving it in print and on disc.

I hope to use this Blog to share some of the details and perhaps a few excerpts in the hopes of not only creating some interest but keeping me interested hopefully long enough to get this thing publish! Actually I see a prequel, I see a multimedia thing with an accompanying music disc and pictures in graphic novel style.

Anyway, this is my first post so I will stop now as I still have a lot to learn about blogging,....