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The Mutants Guide to Time Travel by Paul Andruss.
Please… settle down.
If you let me talk, everything will be explained.
But it is not your first unsettling experience, is it?
That got your attention!
Many of you fear you are going mad or perhaps caught in some nightmare; which is unsurprising after your recurring vivid dreams and the recent dislocation experience.
You are frightened and alone. Let me assure you. You are not alone. We have all been through the same thing: because each of us is related.
I see you looking at the different styles in the room, clothes, hair, cosmetics, and wondering if I joke. You think you know your family: parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins. You were brought up to view family as those around you. You do not to think in terms of deep time: about generations past and those to come. But you will learn. Believe me.
Why am I here? You want to ask.
We all carry a double recessive gene from our common ancestress that makes us time travelling mutants.
Oh dear! How to put this simply?
Genes are what make you look like your parents or grandparents. If grandparents, you may have been told it skipped a generation: this is a recessive gene. Over centuries, families separate. Generations later, distant relatives meet and fall in love. When this happens often enough, you are the result.
Our common ancestress lived in the early 21st century. Her name was Brittany Carter. She wrote romantic fiction distinguished by the fact her heroines time travel: her granddaughter to the Viking age and another, in a thinly veiled autobiography, to the 18th century.
I know many of you read her classic novels when studying English Literature, and perhaps experienced a thrill of recognition in their pages. No doubt you were taught they were written by that literary giant Shehanne Moore. A pleasant fiction I am afraid. Brittany Carter wrote these works. Shehanne Moore was merely her nom-de-plume. A ruse used at the insistence of her publishers.
But time travel I hear you protest, surely you need a machine like the fabulous TARDIS of legend, or perhaps a sacred circle of standing-stones to concentrate the Gaia force. Not at all! Our research at the Institute, shows time travel is simple. It is caused by the relatively common ability of psychokinesis: the power to move objects with the mind.
Historical records show many of you experienced poltergeist activity when you hit puberty. Would it shock you to learn poltergeist activity is in fact involuntary outburst of psychokinetic energy, brought on by hormonal changes? As you grew older you no doubt noticed the violent outbursts subsided.
About the same time lucid dreams began. Lucid dreams are a psychological term for vivid dream states where your conscious mind remains aware making it seem you are actually experiencing the dream as reality. If it seems so, it is because you are.
Such dreams are a psychokinetic by-product; a telepathic bond with your ancestors and descendants. It is widely known Brittany Carter wrote about her granddaughter, Malice, under the influence of such dreams. This is why we time travel during moments of heightened sensation, usually, but not exclusively, during sexual arousal.
At this point I need to tell you everything you understand about time is wrong. From an early age you were taught to view time as a progression of events paralleling birth, growth and gradual decline towards death.
Here are some ancient flick-books, please take one and pass the rest on. See how each photograph, taken exactly a year apart, shows the person moving from birth to death at a fixed rate.
Normally we do not question this.
But think for a moment, even identical twins do not die at exactly the same time. Age is relative. It depends on a series of complex interactions governed by genes and environment.
In the 20th century the oldest person on the planet died at the age of 140 – which is nothing now; while children with the disease progeria died of advanced old age when no more than ten. Some individual cells, like cancer, never die. Others can be indefinitely held in suspension, such as the 5,000 year old seed from a Chinese tomb that grew into a magnolia tree when planted by archaeologists.
Aging is not due to minutes flowing into hours; days into years.
Aging is not time travel. The minutes and hours of your life merely mark the earth’s revolution on its axis and the year its orbit around the sun. Even a light year is a measure of distance, 5.9 trillion miles to be exact.
Stephen King claimed time particles, or chronons, were formed by the past colliding with the present and evaporated when the present dissolved into the future. Michael Moorcock agreed. Moorcock envisaged humans, called Time Dwellers, evolving to live permanently within a single moment. For Moorcock the only answer to the question: ‘What is the time?’ was ‘The present’.
Einstein, the father of science, did not believe in time. He said it was nothing other than a measurement of space like height, width and depth. To him we were no more capable of seeing the bigger picture than a word printed on the page can read the novel it belongs to. Like fish in a barrel we cannot see or understand the world outside, never mind swim in it. He explained it thus:
If a fish swims in a tank at 4 miles per hour, inside an airplane travelling at 500 mph, that is flying across the earth rotating at 1,000 mph at the equator, and orbiting around the sun at 68,400 mph, in a solar system spiralling around the Milky Way at 515,000 mph, in a universe expanding at 158,000 mph. How fast is the fish swimming? The answer is 4 miles per hour. That’s relativity.
If we stepped outside relativity, we would see the past, present and future happening concurrently. It would be like looking at a road from a hilltop. This is how Brittany saw her granddaughter’s life 800 years in the past.
You must understand atoms are not like specks of dust. They are infinitesimal amounts of electrical energy clustered into a nucleus of protons and neutrons and orbited by electrons. If the nucleus was the size of a tennis ball, the atom itself would be four miles across. This means most of the universe is empty space.
The universe expands in every direction at approximately 158,000 mph; as does every atom in it. Think of drawing two circles on a balloon then blowing it up. The bigger the balloon gets the more distant the circles become and the bigger they get.
If we could compact or expand an atom, it would automatically shift to the point when the universe was at the same density. In other words it would time travel.
The electro-magnetic force holding the universe together is the same as Gaia, the life force within every living creature. Outbursts of psychokinetic energy are measurable electric currents. This is how we time travel. Psychokinetic outbursts cause our atoms to contract or expand, hurling us through time.
The final question I am asked in this introductory session is: Am I immortal?
Yes and no.
Remember Michael Moorcock’s Time Dwellers living within a single moment? Like them we can dwell in a single moment of time and so do not age. But in that case, how did Brittany and Malice manage to live with their lovers?
That is relativity. As we cannot exist outside our immediate space-time environment, we take it with us, like a deep-sea diving suit. It is perhaps no more than an atom’s thickness but enough to keep us safe.
If you would care to get to know each other and work out your complex and often confusing relationships, there are refreshments next door. However, before you leave let me assure you, my fellow time-travelling mutants, you have long and interesting lives ahead of you, and many difficult skills to master. But master them you will. For we already know your future.
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Paul Andruss is the author of 2 contrasting fantasy novels
Wanting to engage readers and build an audience 2 novels are available as free downloads in different E-books formats.
Thomas the Rhymer – a magical fantasy for ages 11 to adult about a boy attempting to save fairy Thomas the Rhymer, while trying to rescue his brother from a selfish fairy queen.
If you enjoy the Harry Potter & Narnia books & films? Thomas the Rhymer is right up your street
Thomas the Rhymer is the 1st of a trilogy.
Finn Mac Cool – rude, crude and funny, explicitly sexual and disturbingly violent, Finn Mac Cool is strictly for adults only
Finn mac Cool is a modern retelling of the Irish Myth cycles with a science fantasy edge.
Finn Mac Cool is a must for those with Irish ancestry or anyone interested in Irish legends and folklore. Ever since being a child Paul was fascinated by the phantasmagorical and strange. Blessed with the type of mind that squirrels away peculiar facts, he supposed it was only natural these should become a central feature in his novels.
As Paul got older he often forgot where he found these oddities in the first place. Odds and Sods: A cabinet of Curiosities was born as an on-line notepad and sort of grew from there. Now it showcases the curious stuff he’s come across when researching his novels. He also get a tremendous kick from sharing it with friends.
The blog includes stories from science, history, myth, miracles, occult objects & fabulous beasts. Sample Posts: History – Bonfire of the Vanities / Myth – Philemon & Baucis / Miracles – The Lady at Lourdes / Occult Objects – The Turin Shroud/ Fabulous Beasts – The Horse Cock / Science – Alma (Are Neanderthals still alive?)
Paul is a guest Writer in Residence on ‘Smorgasbord- Variety is the Spice of Life’ where you can enjoy exclusive extra articles: Still Waving – the poet Stevie Smith / Marc Bolan’s Millions / Who were the Proto-Indo-Europeans? / The Truth of the Cottingley Fairies / Venus in Furs & Justine in Tears- De Sade & Masoch / Rosabelle Believe – Did Houdini return from the dead?
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Thanks Shey…. even I was impressed! I loved the Dudes’ comments: they had me howling with laughter. And thank you for the very generous promotions.You are indeed a true friend! Love Paul X
You are indeed the kind friend Paul, going to all this trouble. xxx
It was my absolute pleasure Shey X
A super and informative read, Ms S, her mob and Paul. Moreover, when absorbing the enormity of, and I quote from the text, “This is why we time travel during moments of heightened sensation, usually, but not exclusively, during sexual arousal.”
At last, after all these years I can now fathom as to exactly why, as my beloved Svetlana tended to my every need, I suddenly found myself alone in a cold, dark cave, save for a loinclothed, muscular gal with excessive body hair and breath of wild garlic and dinosaur cutlets about her, giving me the eye.
Seriously, though I did rather enjoy this post.
Mike, now you see the truth of Svetlana, that she neverrr meant to leeeve you, you should know she veel be back. Seriously thank you. This was Paul’s idea and he did a great job. Anything I came up with would have been brain dead by comparison. x
I’ll tell you what Ms S. Your combined efforts made this, by far and away the best post I’ve read this year. A joy to read and think about, the dudes included.
Mike….50 quid in the post xxxxxxxxx
Seriously Mike, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx you.
And I seriously enjoyed your confession as to exactly you ended up in that cold dark cave…. Hilarious and cool. Kudos!
Mike has an enchanted life indeed x
Respect, Sir. I have written a few times in inadequate poem my theory that we are all alive, notwithstanding how long we ‘lived’ – arguable premise – in our own ‘particle of time’, so you will understand that your words had a particular interest to me. You had some fine analogies constructed within this piece. As I said earlier, ‘respect’.
Mike, shutting the dudes up for a mo, he certainly did. I would just say that your poetry is never ever inadequate. it is exquisite xxxxxxxxxxxx
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I am very excited as this afternoon I became a time mutant because I travelled across time and space to Shehanne Moore’s blog where I met up with other mutants otherwise known as the Dudes. We were then all brought up to warp speed by Paul Andruss.. He had slipped into the Hamstah’s dimension to give a discourse on the subject of time travel. Whilst there he made a table of refreshments disappear and gave us access to our family trees. It appears that puberty is to be avoided due to sysmic activity and the dreams I have been experiencing are time travel and not eating cheese too late at night. As always a fascinating post and very appropriate in relation to Shehanne’s book the Writer and the Rake. Anyway head over and Paul will explain everything.. I am off in search of the refreshments. #recommended
I have been looking for these refreshments too Sally, espesh a carrot cake I made yesterday that seems to have vanished into thin air. Hugs to you for reblogging. Paul went to such a trouble but I know I preach to the converted there xxxxxxxxxxxxx
What I love is that we can all have some fun with your posts Shey and we secretly have adopted the monstahamstahs as our own… xxxxx
AW……. That makes their day xxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for all the promotion Shey.. brilliant post of course … would expect no less from the explosive and dynamic combination of Paul, Dudes and Brittany.. xxxx
Sally, THNAK YOU for all your kindness and help xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx This was defo a dynamite combo xxxx
the big bang theory…… xxxx
Heaven’s sake ladies let me get a word in edge ways!!! Noooooo! I’ve forgotten what I want to say now!!!! XXX
Can’t think why Paul x
What a great post, a perfect combination of talents.
Hugs Robbie. It was all Paul’s idea. I can’t claim any credit He always knows his stuff xxxxx
Yes it might have been My Idea Robbie.. But it was Shey’s book, I could not get out of my head, that caused it!!!!! thrilled you liked it! Px
Paul…another 50 quid is on its way ……. x
Fantastic and always interesting post from Paul. I think he handled the dudes just fine, although the poor little guys seem a bit perplexed. 🙂 xxxxxxxxxxxx
Purplexed? We ain’t perplexed? ‘cept for where the refreshment went . We’s just hungry….
love the hungry little dudes.
Oh, scoot back over to Robbie’s blog and eat some more of her goodies. But don’t tell Shey I told you. ❤ xxx
Dear Debby,
We did. She thinks it was the Willy but he is too silly. We’re not…
Love the dudes.
They were PERPLEXED!!! They were PERPLEXED Debby… WHAT ABOUT ME!!! I spent hours on that buffet they ‘time travelled’ into their hamster tummies!
Dear Paul,
We never touched it. It just vanished right before our eyes……..
Love
The ten ton dudes. x
I’m so sorry Paul. They can be picky little dudes sometimes. I just sent them back over to Robbie’s blog LOL 🙂
Okay, seriously, my head is spinning.
Hee hee.. So’s the dudes, mine AND Paul’s. xxxxxxxx
Spinning head! Oh no…. first sign of time travel!
Haha!
OOPS! !Where’s Leslie ???????
Ha! I loved your friend Paul’s thoughts Shey and I shall go stalk him when I’ve finished first coffee and puppy has had his walk…… The Dudes had me laughing out loud this time – singing Dude was very often spot on!
AW Pauline, Paul’s great. In addition to being a talented writer, he both guest blogs for Sally G Cronin and has his own blog. His posts are always informative, detailed, clever and witty. Also, they’re seldom subjects you would think of blogging which makes them interesting too. xx
Thanks Shey you’re lovely too! And a bloody good friend to boot!
Pauline..You’re my first stalker. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! THAT’S SO SWEET!
😀 😀 😀
YAY!!! Glad to introduce you both. Pauline is lovely. Oh and another 50 quid is in the post x
This is a very interesting and heady post that took me a long “time” to read (I probably got the idea to make a pun from the hamsters)
Although my grasp is not complete, all sounds utterly fascinating. A fab guest post, and TY to you and Paul for this wonderful journey! 😀
Lol Resa, I don’t know that Paul and I grasped it completely either. I made up the idea of the Time Mutants when my back was to the wall in some ways and Paul, after reading the book which starts to explain them a little, decided, the hell they WERE feasible and then wrote this fab post. Lovely to see you xx
Take no notice of her Resa. SHE’S the GENIUS…I’m just the hack!
Resa, firstly loved the pun!!! Secondly writing this was involuntary.. After reading Writer and the Rake I just couldn’t stop thinking about how we might time travel and things just sort of clicked into place
Ha ha… Aye right, if only. But Paul yir a doll for getting hooked on this time travel stuff with no portal or machine. xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
So much wisdom in this post dear She…. I firmly believe in Einstein´s theory of Relativity and Time & space being a continuum so to speak… Probably those spatial times are hard to understand when we think of clocks and Hours or minutes… but when it comes to long distances (galaxies, planets) it makes so much sense.
Love the excerpt of your book and Paul Audruss´s blog… great feature, friend. xx
Thank you that means a lot because I am a fan of your blog!
Thank you, Paul!…. 😀 xo
Aw my angel you have certainly made my day and I see you have made Paul’s too. It was all his idea and a damn good job he made of it too. Lovely to see you xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
OMG this was hilarious! Dudes, you outdid your fine selves. I bet Paul thought he would pull one over on you, but you were ready for him. The refreshments were probably merely an illusion ~ a thought form 🙂
Fabulous post, Shey and Paul. It awakened my ancestral laughter genes on this tired Monday afternoon 🙂
Hugs all around ♥♥♥
Thanks Tina…. it’s hilarious! No never thought I’d get one over on the dudes.They are far too smart… not to mention omivorous (eat everything)! But it was a pleasure to work with them!
Welcome, Paul. It seems you had a lot of fun with this one 🙂
Paul is being far too modest Tina, he did brilliantly against the dudes and I think they were awed by him. Bobby Bub has never learned to shut his mouth alas. Lovely to see you my darling especially as you are so busy right now xxxxxxxx
Would not miss an episode of The Dudes, Shey ~ at least not intentionally. Your posts offer respite. The busier one is, the more they are needed! ♥♥♥
Dearest Tina, we are your number one fans
Love
the little dudes.
xxxxxx
You all really packed a lot into this. Like a duet if it was a song.
You are spot on this was a perfect duet…each taking up the other’s melody and making it sing!
Shey, I posted this comment, ‘You all really packed a lot into this. Like a duet if it was a song’ just when a message came up that said basically, ‘hang on in there for 5 minutes – do not refresh etc. we’re (i.e. WP) doing some maintenance. Then after 5 minutes I tried to post the comment and the next message read ‘duplicate comment’. I hope you got the comment. I checked Twitter and the tweet got through OK.
Listen dude, getting the same shit here so don’t worry… HEE HEE, I will end up with a ton of comments which numberswise will look great. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx George.
The few minutes is a joke. I have now counted ten. Just more WP pish if you ask me.
A bloke just sent me the same comment twice as well!
Seems to be working now xxx
I find the whole concept of time travel fascinating. Great post – and loads of fun with the dudes.
Well, I guess we are writers Cat, we can do what we want in terms of world building. BUT, equally we have to convince ourselves. So I was glad for the back up from Paul. Lovely to see you xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks Cat I was deeply thrilled Shey like my contribution to her devilishly clever plot device of how to time travel without a lot of palaver
Hee hee… I dunno when you consider the stakes involved that Brittany would agree re the palaver. She’d be going, ‘Darling, are we sure our head doesn’t zip up the back, or what?’ ( We won’t go elsewhere about her being with Mitchell…. and still stuck in 1765 either…. we will keep this chaste. I love your contribution to this. I am very honoured and boy was it a lot of work. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Can’t wait to read Shey’s new book. And I just visited the Giant’s Causeway so I think I’m going to need to pick up Finn McCool as well!😍
Aw Pam, you are an angel. Paul will be thrilled. Truly he will. LOVED your pics of the causeway, was telling the Mr cos I know he would love to go to Ireland. Loved all your pics actually. An amazing roadtrip x
Oh yes, it was great and I hope to return someday. Who knew Ireland 🇮🇪 was such a conservation-minded country?!
PS>>>> Actaually you are a ten times over angel re wanting to read this book too xxxxxxxx
😘
Paul, dinnae you alarm mah smexy ‘sistah’ here!!!! She just went round the whole of Ireland! Seriously I am sure she will love having her toes curl. Like you, Pam is the best xxxxx
Scotland is too… We have all of four huge bins in our backyards xxxx
Thanks Pam, Any problems with the download just let me know… and watch out as some parts might make your toes curl!
Haha! Okay, Paul!😳
Great job you guys, Shey, Paul and hamsters! I don’t know if this clarified things for me in terms of time travel, but it was fun to read anyway. 😉
Paul, your books sound great! I love mythology and different retellings.
Thank you Carolee, please feel free to download and if you do I hope you enjoy it. Best Paul
Thanks, Paul! Your books always come up in my ‘customers also read’ area, so I was going to read them eventually. If it has lots of sex, violence and mayhem it’s probably up my alley.
Carolee…
‘Between mine and Paul’s books there will be plenty of sex and violence’
In my humble opinion you can’t have too much sex and violence….
OMIGOD did the DUDES hear that…tell me no!
Definitely be checking out your work!!!! Best. Paul
Hee hee… Them dudes have corrupted yah Paul!!! x
Carolee xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I am gonna be time travelling my way this week through my Tbr pile and putting 3 books to the top, Yours and Paul’s are two xxxxxx Then the dudes will chew ’em over…. xxxx
Shey, thank you so much! Between mine and Paul’s books there will be plenty of sex and violence for you and the dudes to enjoy by the sound of it 🙂 xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hee hee. Carole, behave yourself !!! Sorry LMAO
Interesting presentation tingled with dudes humour ….
I have to come back though and go into details …. Hugs to you,darling Shey 🙂 xxxx
PS:I was almost the first one I bought your :The Writer and The Rake – e-book,but I cannot find the printed one in Amazon …
Doda, you are a darling, darling DARLING. It is not out yet in print. It should go to print. I can’t remember off the top of my head how long it is after the ebook comes out. Warning you now Brittany is chaotic! Lovely to see you here when your life has also been hectic lately. Paul Andruss wrote this post. He wanted to do it after reading the book and it was so kind of him to do both and take all that trouble. Of course the dudes had to chew it over xxxxxxx
You had told me when,I cannot remember now;I saw Paul’s name as I scrolled down,but did’t read any details.Well done to him,it was so kind of him to do it for your gorgeous book,darling,darling,darling …. A big hug to your little angel for me 🙂 xxxxx
Aw… I will tell my wee angel who the hugs is from. Not see him now till next week. Sob sob. xxx It was so kind of Paul to do this for me when anything like this means braving the dudes but he well held his own. Love to you Doda xxxxxxxxxx
Thank you darling Shey for your immediate response and your rich replies.I’m so sorry I cannot go on and check out all your posts … Paul was so generous and kind to you,but you and your fascinating book deserve it 🙂 Please put the link in here to pay a visit to his site 🙂 Much love back to you & loads of summer kisses to your angel xxxxxxx
Aw Doda, hugs to you. As always, so kind. Please don’t worry about vising my posts. It is just lovely to have you at this one and I know you are busy at this time of the year. Even I was out there today grabbing that seldom seen visitor–the sun. We are heading for the hills tomorrow where it will probably rain. Here is the link to Paul’s blog. once you get there you just look for the blog tab. He has some great posts xxx
http://www.paul-andruss.com/
http://bit.ly/2wxqs9H
Dear Doda, that is a lovely thing to say but truth be told I wouldn’t have written anything if that blinking woman’s book had not got in my head so I couldn’t think about anything else for days! These blinking geniuses eh! You innocently read their books and then can’t stop pondering on them!!!!! Of well… I’m reading Spendor next….Heaven knows what that’s going to go to me… But I’m sure it’s going to be good!
AW Paul…. Splendor has no time travelling. AWWW. Need to get writing about Britt’s great granddaughter for that. But will. That’s another 50 quid bribe money in in the post. The fortune you have cost me when I know you would have written this post anyway ! xxxxxxxxx
My pleasure Paul dear!Obviously,Shey has captivated you through her fabulous books and not only,I know the feeling … I’ll pay a flashing visit to your site before leaving again.I’m an amateur bloggger who appears once in a blue moon … Best,
Doda
Interesting your books,dear Paul,glad to see that you’re inspired by the Greek Mythology!Wishing you the best,my friend.
I thought you would like the fact Paul is inspired by something close to your own heart Doda xxxx
Paul has to deal with those hamstahs but I think he keeps his own 😉 Only now I’m like Carolee and have so many time travel issues to sort out hahah ~ Love you, Shey xxooo
LOl, he was indeed brave and he has caused us to set up the head spinners club. I see we can bag you for a member too! (I better watch I don’t fall off any mountains this weekend!) The dudes are collapsing all over the place. Love you too Christy, Hope you are good xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Christie. Thank you for your moral support… but between you an me the Dudes won hands down!! I am now chained to their hamstah wheel running round in it to make their Internet work and power the amplifier for the electric guitar…. Well you don’t think they’re going to run round a wheel do you? They are far too cool! PS…HELP ME!!!!
Right dudes. ENOUGH. > The Shey hath spoke. Dinnae you worry Paul, I got stuff up my sleeves that will casue them to shut it. xxxxxxxxxxxx
Dear Shay- just wanted to say to all your fantastic friends: I have been overwhelmed by the welcome and their generosity. And thanks to you for writing the Writer and the Rake in the first place and inspiring me with your hot, frantic and immensely witty prose about the adventures of your hot tough vulnerable heroine and her hot tough vulnerable hunk.
As a mutual plug, here is the link to my review.
http://www.paul-andruss.com/the-writer-and-the-rake/
Paul, you are an absolute heart of gold mate and treasure. (Costing me a fortune in 50 quid bribes but hey….) Seriously it is great having you here and my friends are all of the very best calibre…like you… To quote Morte, ‘It’s all a question of choice.’ And I don’t think I have made the wrong ones. They’re always fabulous in terms of their response. Thrilled that I inspired you. Truly you have made my day with that lovely comment xxxxxxxx
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woo hoo shey, I’m an avid time traveler though I’m usually late, sometimes by a few eons. Great post and I am now following Paul too!! I suppose I’ll be running into those pesky critters too in the worm holes.
Welcome fellow traveller, oh darling Cybele. So glad you are now following Paul. His blog is very interesting and varied. Sure you will enjoy it. I will shoo these critters awa. may your weekend be the best. x
could you change that not following Paul to now following Paul lol. Time traveling is very tiring and I suppose I am fatigued! Thanks so much dear lass!! Enjoy!
Lol…it sure is. I knew what you meant though xxxxxxxxx
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Most insightful! I don’t always dig into the logistics of how stuff works in my story until I draft, and then realize, “shit, I don’t know how this works, or this, or this…” And THEN I work out the cogs and such. Not that the dudes seemed all that excited, but I enjoyed it. 🙂 xxxxx
The dudes just eat anything they don’t understand so they don’t worry too much. Sort of don’t anyway. I had to get some kind of logistics on this once it became a series and the only reason it did was cos I wasn’t having portals or stone circles so I said time travelling dynasty……
Which is brilliant, I say! It’s different, unique, and opens a wealth of potential problems for your characters. Love it! xxxxxxx
LoL…. It sure opened up probs for me first of all. I had to think how it was that this lot became travellers which quite tortured my brain. But the funny funny thing was that I hadn’t fully fleshed the idea in the Viking book initially. Malice time travelled a certain way and that was it. But when I was fighting for it to stay that way and I looked at what I had said re her, well she was an orphan, brought up by an aunt who virtually kept her locked up and married her off to this distant cousin who only wanted the inheritance. I had written that no-one knew who her father was, indeed if her mother had ever married and although Malice remembered being told her mother was dead, she couldn’t recall being at the funeral. Even better for some reason I had talked about the Viking books her aunt kept which were plainly not from the 18th century. All I had to do was put her grandmother’s name on them . Anyway, when I came to writing this book, I felt I needed to flesh the backstory on the family cos I do want to write more. and I have got some ideas for serious fun and probs here xxxxxx
You have a good blog.
Amal, thank you so very much for reading, following and commenting. I have signe to follow your blog. I love that it covers so many topics, from films, to travel etc . Enjoy your day x
Ps the blog is a bit silly really but hey xxxx
Oh, my word! Are you saying that vividly hot dream I had about Tom Hardy the other night was really happening? 🙂 Am not so happy about the alien invasion dreams, though. Those aliens are always mega-freaky.
Having read The Writer and the Rake, I love the way you’ve constructed this post. It’s very clever and does that wonderful novel huge justice 🙂 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sarah, you are an angel. (Will get the 100 quid in the post!!!!!! LOL) This was Paul’s idea for a laugh really and we sure had a good time between us and the dudes, getting it out there. So chuckling at your hot dream about Tom Hardy. What you need is to spare him for five mins in your dream to deal with these aliens and all will be well…. x
Too right he would. I watched him in the movie Mad Max: Fury Road yesterday evening. He sure knows how to permanently dispatch bad ass characters! xxxx
Hee hee…well just you speak firmly to him, AND leave him be for five mins xxxxxxxxx
Oh I believe that everything in your book is true. Paul explained the science of it, but I already have faith 😉 xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Bonjour ou Bonsoir SHEHANNE
C’est une joie
un idéal
un régal
De revenir te voir et de joindre ce petit mot sur ton blog
L’amitié aide à oublier
Tout ce qui peux faire pleurer
Primordiale même
Pour aider quand on a mal
Cela fait du bien quand on en a besoin
Passe une très bonne journée ou soirée
Toi
Ta famille
bisous Bernard
Enjoy your weekend my friend xxxxxxxxxxx
Definitely a rousing post 😀
Paul and I had fun on this one. It was his idea and the dudes certainly had fun. Huge apologies for missing some of your great posts. For some reason although I follow you I never any notifications of the last few. Here was me wondering where you’d gone and it was nowhere xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
🙂
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