Saturday, January 15, 2011

A New Forward

It's interesting.  Never writing a novel before, I'm not only rediscovering forgotten rules and parts of English. I'm also discovering this new creative means by which to express myself.  The process one goes through when writing something more than the ephemeral email, text msg or twitter tweet.

It's a process, and I would assume a process that progresses for each in their own manner and pace. For a while, I've liked the general content of my Forward, but was never happy with the wording.  Frankly it was simply too wordy.  After living with it a bit, and letting it mull about in the back of my mind, a few changes came to mind.  The old adage, "less is more" seems to fit here.   So below, is my new Forward.  I think what it conveys is the same as the much longer previous Forward, but now much more concisely.  Still not 100% happy with it, but I feel it's much closer to the final content.  This is just the forward and it's taken me a while to even get it this close to how I ultimately want it.  Now I know why it takes years and years to write a decent novel.

So, whatcha think?

Tim

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Life in the universe is varied and vast.  From humble bits of matter that are slightly more than inorganic reactions to those known simply as the Continuum Weavers.  A very ancient race of beings with great power that live in yet are not bound by our 4-dimensions of space-time.  Little is known about them.  Very rarely do they interact with anyone, including their own, but on occasion, they enlist another to help with their weaving.

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