March 31, 2023
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    • Book One Second Sight
      • Theories and Ideas behind Second Sight
      • What Second Sight is About
      • First Four Chapters of Second Sight
      • Route Jordan Takes in Second Sight and Second Birth
      • Maps
    • Book Two Second Birth
      • What Second Birth is About
      • Selected Chapters of Second Birth
      • Updated Maps For Second Birth
        • The First Nation of Atlantis: Atlas
        • The Second Nation of Atlantis: Eumelus
        • The Third Nation of Atlantis : Ampheres
        • The Fourth Nation of Atlantis: Evaemon
        • The Fifth Nation of Atlantis: Mneseus
        • The Sixth Nation of Atlantis: Autochthon
        • The Seventh Nation of Atlantis: Elasippus
        • The Ninth Nation of Atlantis: Azaes
        • The Tenth Nation of Atlantis: Diaprepes
    • Book Three First Earth
      • What First Earth Is About
      • Selected Chapters of First Earth
      • BINARY STAR THEORY
      • Theory on How the Flood Happened. Based on the work by Donald Wesley Patten and Others.
    • Book Four Third Way
      • Thoughts and Ideas Behind Third Way
      • What Third Way is about
    • Book Five Colony
      • What Colony is About
    • Book Six Star of David
      • What Star of David is About
    • Book Seven Nova Child
      • What Nova Child is About
        • Sample Chapters From Nova Child
          • Sample Chapters From Nova Child
  • What Readers Say About Second Sight
  • What People Say About Second Birth
  • What People Are Saying About Me
  • Travel
    • Travel 2001
      • 2001 Ciudad de Este, Paraguay
    • Travel 2002
      • 2002 Belize and Guatemala
        • 2002 Belize Altun Ha
        • 2002 Lubaantun, Belize
        • 2002 Nim Li Punt, Belize
        • 2002 Sea Taxi to Caye Caulker, Belize
        • 2002 Xunantunich, Belize Full Data Download
        • 2002 Belize Cuello Santa Rita Cerros
        • 2002 Belize Xunantunich
        • 2002 Guatemala Tikal
      • 2002 Salem New Hampshire America’s Stonehenge
      • 2002 September 9th Page Museum, Los Angeles, California
    • Travel 2003
      • 2003 August field trip to Glencairn Museum, Bryn Athyn Pennsylvania
      • 2003 18 May Farmhouse Route 15 near Sellinsgrove PA
      • 2003 November Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, Illinois
      • 2003 February 23 : Humans Beneath the Coal? A Meeting with Mr. Ed Conrad in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania
      • 2003 July Europe Bath England
    • Travel 2004
      • 2004 Europe with Mike Kraxberger ( aka Krax) and San Luis Obispo UMC friends :)
        • 2004 Bath England and the Roman Baths Beneath…and something older beneath them…
        • 2004 Cerne Abbes Giant, Cerne Abbes, England
        • 2004 Europe Wells Cathedral
        • 2004 March Europe Trip Elgin Villa, Bath, England Then driving to London with stops along the way including Stonehenge.
        • 2004 Uffington Horse
      • 2004 Mexico
        • 2004 Balanku, Mexico A tale of three brothers who sailed from the east….
        • 2004 Becan, Mexico
        • 2004 Club Akumal , Mexico
        • 2004 Coba, Mexico Evidence Ancient People Struggled to Survive in a Much More Dangerous World
        • 2004 Dzibilchaltun, Mexico When the steps are twice as steep, the doors are twice as tall. There be giants.
        • 2004 January Chichen Itza Mexico
        • 2004 La Venta Mexico: Here There be Giants and Scientists, Ancient and Advanced
        • 2004 Merida, Mexico
        • 2004 Mexico City, Mexico Zona Archeologica Del Templo Mayor
        • 2004 Mexico…..On the road to Pueblo
        • 2004 Palenque, Mexico King Pacal and the 2012 doomsday that didn’t happen and he didn’t say it would….Got that?
        • 2004 Pamul Resort, Mexico…… Last day of trip :(
        • 2004 Pueblo, Mexico and the Tower of Babel ?
        • 2004 Teotihuacan Mexico and the Museum of Archaeology in Mexico City
        • 2004 Tulum before it got crowded
        • 2004 Tulum vids
        • 2004 Uxmal, Mexico Full Download
        • 2004 Villahermosa, Mexico The strange giant heads and flying bearded “gods” found buried in the Olmec region of Mexico : African Kings? European Explorers?
        • 2004 JANUARY MUSEUM OF ARCHEOLOGY MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
        • 2004 Teotihuacan Mexico
        • 2004 Uxmal Mexico
    • Travel 2005
      • 2005 10 october Stonehenge Salem New Hampshire Follow Up Visit
      • 2005 Death Valley Museum, Death Valley, California
    • Travel 2006
      • 2006 Moscow and Tuymen, Russia
    • Travel 2007
      • 2007 Costa Rica Central West Coast Region
    • Travel 2008
      • Pyramid Mounds in Alabama
      • 2008 Egypt – Day One – Cairo and Orphanage
      • 2008 Egypt – Day Two – Saqqara
      • 2008 Egypt – Day Two – Giza
    • Travel 2010
      • 2010 Haiti – Field Work for New Hospital Project
    • Travel 2011
      • 2011 Carved Stone found by friends near Dover Foxcroft, Maine
      • 2011 Maine home base and then visit to Boston Science Museum
      • 2011 Natural Bridge Virginia
    • Travel 2012
      • 2012 August Algonquin Canada
    • Travel 2013
      • January 2013 Haiti
      • May 2013 Europe
        • 2013 Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
        • 2013 Hallstatt, Austria
        • Welt Museum, Vienna, Austria 2013
      • Summer 2013 Europe
    • Travel 2015
      • 2015 Mexico Day One Arrival, George’s porch, and Chelem ( Chay – LEM )
      • 2015 Mexico Day Six Labna (LAB – nah)
      • 2015 Mexico Day Six Xlapak (shlah – PAHK)
      • 2015 Mexico Day Two Mayapan
      • 2015 Mexico Day Five Oxkintok ( osh kin TOOK )
  • New Stuff
    • 2015 11 28 The Susquehanna Stones
    • 2017 3 21 Updated mapping of earth at the time of Atlantis
    • 2017 6 27 Discovered a possible link between the Inca, the Maya, the Voynich Manuscript, and the last 32,000 years of History.
    • 2018 9 9 Tabor Umc Youth Sunday School Class Creation Talk
    • 2019 1 29 Reference Slides for 1210 AM talk radio discussion with Bradley E. Lacey
    • Lost chapter to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Solar System.
    • Susquehanna Stones Visited
    • History of Civilization
    • 2015 1 10 Pyramids of China
    • 2015 1 12 Pyramids of Mexico
    • 2015 1 18 How I think the Sun might have been born during the death of another star.
    • 2015 1 4 Where Did the Wise Men Come From?
    • 2014 10 18 Exploring Pennhurst
    • 2014 10 19 Did the Ancestors of China Worship God?
    • 2014 12 7 Update on Pyramids That Align with Orion
    • 2014 8 28 Research in Germany Yields Old Globe Showing Antartica Ice Free
    • 2014 9 12: How I Think the Lost Library of Egypt Was Buried, Where it is Located, and How it Can Be Opened.
    • 2014 May 12 Saqqara, Egypt – photos and thoughts
    • 2014 May 12 Update on what people are saying about me
    • 2014 October 9 US Navy developing Elevated Stealth Raft
    • 2013 10 March: Were Obelisks Ancient Time Capsules?
    • 2013 February 15 This may not be the only meteorite that hits us this month
    • 2013 February 24 Does the Sun have a Twin?
    • 2012 December 14: Where I Think Atlantis Was Located
    • 2012 December 15: Jordan and Suri’s route from the Embassy to Baskra
    • 2012 December 19: Jordan and Suri’s Route in Second Sight Continued: Escape Across Algon and The Cut Diago Chapters
    • 2012 December 4 Update on My Study of Manetho’s History of Egypt from 30,000 BC to the First Greek Olympiad
    • 2012 December 5: Manetho Timeline Updated
    • 2012 November 18th: The Mammoth and the Aircar
    • 2012 November 20th: How I Write a Manuscript
    • 2012 November 27: Ancient Advanced Technology. A Strange Conversation I had with a Retired Scientist on an Airplane to California.
  • Old Stuff
  • Presentations
    • 2017 October 31 Indian Crest Middle School Presentation
    • 2019 January 11 Indian Crest Middle School
    • October 11, 2012 Ian Burley’s Science Class Souderton High School
    • November 1, 2012 Presentation at Boyertown Junior High East
    • 2012 November 14th and 15th Christopher Dock Mennonite High School Presentation
    • 2012 November 16 Pottsgrove High School Presentation
    • 2014 March 12 Christopher Dock Presentation Atlantis and New Evidence of Early Maps
    • Comparison of Submerged Temple Ruin near Japan with Machu Picchu, Peru
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  • Home
  • About The Author
  • Purchase Books Here
  • Book Series
    • Book One Second Sight
      • Theories and Ideas behind Second Sight
      • What Second Sight is About
      • First Four Chapters of Second Sight
      • Route Jordan Takes in Second Sight and Second Birth
      • Maps
    • Book Two Second Birth
      • What Second Birth is About
      • Selected Chapters of Second Birth
      • Updated Maps For Second Birth
        • The First Nation of Atlantis: Atlas
        • The Second Nation of Atlantis: Eumelus
        • The Third Nation of Atlantis : Ampheres
        • The Fourth Nation of Atlantis: Evaemon
        • The Fifth Nation of Atlantis: Mneseus
        • The Sixth Nation of Atlantis: Autochthon
        • The Seventh Nation of Atlantis: Elasippus
        • The Ninth Nation of Atlantis: Azaes
        • The Tenth Nation of Atlantis: Diaprepes
    • Book Three First Earth
      • What First Earth Is About
      • Selected Chapters of First Earth
      • BINARY STAR THEORY
      • Theory on How the Flood Happened. Based on the work by Donald Wesley Patten and Others.
    • Book Four Third Way
      • Thoughts and Ideas Behind Third Way
      • What Third Way is about
    • Book Five Colony
      • What Colony is About
    • Book Six Star of David
      • What Star of David is About
    • Book Seven Nova Child
      • What Nova Child is About
        • Sample Chapters From Nova Child
          • Sample Chapters From Nova Child
  • What Readers Say About Second Sight
  • What People Say About Second Birth
  • What People Are Saying About Me
  • Travel
    • Travel 2001
      • 2001 Ciudad de Este, Paraguay
    • Travel 2002
      • 2002 Belize and Guatemala
        • 2002 Belize Altun Ha
        • 2002 Lubaantun, Belize
        • 2002 Nim Li Punt, Belize
        • 2002 Sea Taxi to Caye Caulker, Belize
        • 2002 Xunantunich, Belize Full Data Download
        • 2002 Belize Cuello Santa Rita Cerros
        • 2002 Belize Xunantunich
        • 2002 Guatemala Tikal
      • 2002 Salem New Hampshire America’s Stonehenge
      • 2002 September 9th Page Museum, Los Angeles, California
    • Travel 2003
      • 2003 August field trip to Glencairn Museum, Bryn Athyn Pennsylvania
      • 2003 18 May Farmhouse Route 15 near Sellinsgrove PA
      • 2003 November Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, Illinois
      • 2003 February 23 : Humans Beneath the Coal? A Meeting with Mr. Ed Conrad in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania
      • 2003 July Europe Bath England
    • Travel 2004
      • 2004 Europe with Mike Kraxberger ( aka Krax) and San Luis Obispo UMC friends :)
        • 2004 Bath England and the Roman Baths Beneath…and something older beneath them…
        • 2004 Cerne Abbes Giant, Cerne Abbes, England
        • 2004 Europe Wells Cathedral
        • 2004 March Europe Trip Elgin Villa, Bath, England Then driving to London with stops along the way including Stonehenge.
        • 2004 Uffington Horse
      • 2004 Mexico
        • 2004 Balanku, Mexico A tale of three brothers who sailed from the east….
        • 2004 Becan, Mexico
        • 2004 Club Akumal , Mexico
        • 2004 Coba, Mexico Evidence Ancient People Struggled to Survive in a Much More Dangerous World
        • 2004 Dzibilchaltun, Mexico When the steps are twice as steep, the doors are twice as tall. There be giants.
        • 2004 January Chichen Itza Mexico
        • 2004 La Venta Mexico: Here There be Giants and Scientists, Ancient and Advanced
        • 2004 Merida, Mexico
        • 2004 Mexico City, Mexico Zona Archeologica Del Templo Mayor
        • 2004 Mexico…..On the road to Pueblo
        • 2004 Palenque, Mexico King Pacal and the 2012 doomsday that didn’t happen and he didn’t say it would….Got that?
        • 2004 Pamul Resort, Mexico…… Last day of trip :(
        • 2004 Pueblo, Mexico and the Tower of Babel ?
        • 2004 Teotihuacan Mexico and the Museum of Archaeology in Mexico City
        • 2004 Tulum before it got crowded
        • 2004 Tulum vids
        • 2004 Uxmal, Mexico Full Download
        • 2004 Villahermosa, Mexico The strange giant heads and flying bearded “gods” found buried in the Olmec region of Mexico : African Kings? European Explorers?
        • 2004 JANUARY MUSEUM OF ARCHEOLOGY MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
        • 2004 Teotihuacan Mexico
        • 2004 Uxmal Mexico
    • Travel 2005
      • 2005 10 october Stonehenge Salem New Hampshire Follow Up Visit
      • 2005 Death Valley Museum, Death Valley, California
    • Travel 2006
      • 2006 Moscow and Tuymen, Russia
    • Travel 2007
      • 2007 Costa Rica Central West Coast Region
    • Travel 2008
      • Pyramid Mounds in Alabama
      • 2008 Egypt – Day One – Cairo and Orphanage
      • 2008 Egypt – Day Two – Saqqara
      • 2008 Egypt – Day Two – Giza
    • Travel 2010
      • 2010 Haiti – Field Work for New Hospital Project
    • Travel 2011
      • 2011 Carved Stone found by friends near Dover Foxcroft, Maine
      • 2011 Maine home base and then visit to Boston Science Museum
      • 2011 Natural Bridge Virginia
    • Travel 2012
      • 2012 August Algonquin Canada
    • Travel 2013
      • January 2013 Haiti
      • May 2013 Europe
        • 2013 Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
        • 2013 Hallstatt, Austria
        • Welt Museum, Vienna, Austria 2013
      • Summer 2013 Europe
    • Travel 2015
      • 2015 Mexico Day One Arrival, George’s porch, and Chelem ( Chay – LEM )
      • 2015 Mexico Day Six Labna (LAB – nah)
      • 2015 Mexico Day Six Xlapak (shlah – PAHK)
      • 2015 Mexico Day Two Mayapan
      • 2015 Mexico Day Five Oxkintok ( osh kin TOOK )
  • New Stuff
    • 2015 11 28 The Susquehanna Stones
    • 2017 3 21 Updated mapping of earth at the time of Atlantis
    • 2017 6 27 Discovered a possible link between the Inca, the Maya, the Voynich Manuscript, and the last 32,000 years of History.
    • 2018 9 9 Tabor Umc Youth Sunday School Class Creation Talk
    • 2019 1 29 Reference Slides for 1210 AM talk radio discussion with Bradley E. Lacey
    • Lost chapter to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Solar System.
    • Susquehanna Stones Visited
    • History of Civilization
    • 2015 1 10 Pyramids of China
    • 2015 1 12 Pyramids of Mexico
    • 2015 1 18 How I think the Sun might have been born during the death of another star.
    • 2015 1 4 Where Did the Wise Men Come From?
    • 2014 10 18 Exploring Pennhurst
    • 2014 10 19 Did the Ancestors of China Worship God?
    • 2014 12 7 Update on Pyramids That Align with Orion
    • 2014 8 28 Research in Germany Yields Old Globe Showing Antartica Ice Free
    • 2014 9 12: How I Think the Lost Library of Egypt Was Buried, Where it is Located, and How it Can Be Opened.
    • 2014 May 12 Saqqara, Egypt – photos and thoughts
    • 2014 May 12 Update on what people are saying about me
    • 2014 October 9 US Navy developing Elevated Stealth Raft
    • 2013 10 March: Were Obelisks Ancient Time Capsules?
    • 2013 February 15 This may not be the only meteorite that hits us this month
    • 2013 February 24 Does the Sun have a Twin?
    • 2012 December 14: Where I Think Atlantis Was Located
    • 2012 December 15: Jordan and Suri’s route from the Embassy to Baskra
    • 2012 December 19: Jordan and Suri’s Route in Second Sight Continued: Escape Across Algon and The Cut Diago Chapters
    • 2012 December 4 Update on My Study of Manetho’s History of Egypt from 30,000 BC to the First Greek Olympiad
    • 2012 December 5: Manetho Timeline Updated
    • 2012 November 18th: The Mammoth and the Aircar
    • 2012 November 20th: How I Write a Manuscript
    • 2012 November 27: Ancient Advanced Technology. A Strange Conversation I had with a Retired Scientist on an Airplane to California.
  • Old Stuff
  • Presentations
    • 2017 October 31 Indian Crest Middle School Presentation
    • 2019 January 11 Indian Crest Middle School
    • October 11, 2012 Ian Burley’s Science Class Souderton High School
    • November 1, 2012 Presentation at Boyertown Junior High East
    • 2012 November 14th and 15th Christopher Dock Mennonite High School Presentation
    • 2012 November 16 Pottsgrove High School Presentation
    • 2014 March 12 Christopher Dock Presentation Atlantis and New Evidence of Early Maps
    • Comparison of Submerged Temple Ruin near Japan with Machu Picchu, Peru

2012 November 20th: How I Write a Manuscript

Copyright November 20, 2012

I am working on two manuscripts during 2012-2013: First Earth and Third Way (working title). I spend many hours listening to music, visualizing the stories while I write. I’ve been listening to Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard’s  Gladiator soundtrack while editing the current chapters in First Earth.  I’ve been listening to Steve Curtis Chapman’s  Speechless to help me visualize the beginning and ending for Third Way. After I return from Peru, (I hope I am able to go back soon.) I will write the bridging parts of Third Way and then flesh in the story that’s been banging around in my head for years.

This morning while I was designing a home, I listened to one of my favorite Steven Curtis Chapman songs− God is God −to help me visualize the overall theme of Third Way, kind of a movie trailer view of the novel.

I hope someday if the novel series is successful, that it becomes a movie series as well. I think the coolest scenario would be I become wildly successful with Second Birth, get established as a player in the writing industry and get to collaborate with Mr. Chapman on the screenplay for Third Way.  I think in order to be historically accurate; the movie will have to be a musical.

The story is of an ancient missionary/scientist, who started out self-absorbed and privileged, had a life changing crisis and turned his life around.  He spent the rest of his life trying to save the world. He traveled the world, accompanied by a band of dwarfs and several other scientists. He would sing to the people to win them over and earn their trust. He is remembered most for how he loved orphans and widows. I have seen his story in a dozen ancient cultures, most prominently in the Maya. I am anxious to go back to Peru and seek out his stories in the Inca culture. I think there is undiscovered evidence to support Don Richardson’s life’s work beyond what he so beautifully pieced together. I think it hides in the surviving architecture of the Inca.

If you are interested, here is what I see when I listen to Chapman’s beautiful song, God is God.  It is a kind of movie trailer. For a novel it would be the three minute pitch to an agent. I use a single song to help me keep the story’s overall concept cemented in my mind as I work on a novel in between everything else.

If you play this YouTube link and watch the timer, the following outline matches the timer. The setting is 9000 BCE. The star of the story will remain unnamed for now. I’ll call him P for protagonist.

Here’s the link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnipZyK3ET4

To do this you will have to have two windows open at the same time to watch the timer and follow my outline.

 

0:00

P standing at edge of a stone platform. Dressed in red robe, curled toe shoes and gold jewelry. Priests standing behind him. Enormous crowd stretches from base of platform to horizon. King introducing  reluctant P to crowd.  King commands crowd to kneel. Crowd drops.  P horrified. He turns and walks away. King and priests, furious.

0:27

P standing on bow of sailing raft. Accompanied by three human companions.  Trahls working the rigging and manning the tillers. Rolling ocean swells reveal distant shoreline and setting sun beyond.

0:49

Fade to Chapman singing to us.

1:17

Fade back to P standing on beach, watching distant storm sweeping across vast valley. Ruins along shore and jutting out of the ocean. Small group of ragged people approach P, his companions, and the wary trahls.

1:34

Fast montage of P singing to the children while the trahls play musical instruments similar to those used in ancient Egypt. P. dances for the small crowd. P does some “magic” tricks. Companion A shows people how to pick food that is safe to eat.  They show them how to clean and cook the food.  P. teaches math and points out stars. Companion B teaches personal hygiene. Companion C makes a plow and shows how to plant crops.

1:50

People lead P and companions and trahls inland into mountains to cliff edge.

Clouds part revealing distant city ruin. Old pyramid at edge of city. Thousands of campfires flicker from rooftops and open walls.

P invited into city. Sees wreaked machinery and vehicles. Helps them rebuild city and machines.

Companion C gets old pyramid to power up. City comes to life.

P standing on cliff months later, overlooking city. Companions tearful. Trahls furious.

2:21

Long line of slaves carrying bricks to base of new pyramid in middle of city. People being whipped as they build.

2:49

P declaring this from cliff.

3:08

P shaking sandals at King in throne room. Turns and walks away.

3:18

Chapman standing on cliff singing this to us.

3:30

P, dwarfs, and beach people sneaking into city and freeing some of the slaves.

3:45

Fast montage starting with massive invasion fleet landing on beach, army marching to city with repaired weaponry and some flying aircraft. City forces racing out onto beach to meet invasion. Back and forth shots of armies racing headlong into each other.

3:53

Black screen. Fade in name of P.

4:08

Fade out name of P.

Fade in: “Coming to theaters June 2015”

 

(I believe it is always good to dream big.)

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