The Making of: “The Tales of Poseidonia,”
(or the ‘Port of Poseidonia,’ Atlantis’ Demise)
I want to tell you about the gradual way I made: “The Tales of Poseidonia.” I made it gradually and it took me two years and four months to make it, but that is not what I mean by gradual. What I mean by gradual is the way the preparation was made inside of me, and how it developed into what you have read, may read, or might not read, but hear about, but what I wrote to be read. I will tell it, but perhaps it will sound too chronological, it is not meant to be, because for the most part it is relatively new. It was started in mid July, of 2004, and the last words written November 9, 2006 (now of course, revised).
To begin with, I must say I’ve learned how to listen, as well as speak, and I have of course much to say, as every writer should have, or why read, write, listen and talk. And so I have read much on Atlantis, the demons, the underworld, the Manticore, giants (even went to Malta to talk to the inhabitants about such legends)) and I myself have had some experience in this dark shadow)) and the Tiamat, all characters in the book: The Tales of Poseidonia. How else could I have known about everything I’ve written in the novel? (This is not an advertisement for the book; it is a lecture, for the most part, on the book, perhaps even a judgment to its value and credibility.) In other words, this is how I wrote the book, or wrote this soon to be book (2007).
I must admit, I always seem to be looking, listening, watching, but that is a way of learning for me, that is if one has the profound need to learn it can be a good way to go about it: I do with everyone around me, and everything around you if you are with me. And I begin this project as soon as I get up out of bed, every day of my life, to learn what I can put into my head, stories. For the most part, that is how I feel about it.
Those of you who have read a few of the parts of “The Tales of Poseidonia,” and thus far, no one has read the revised edition fully, nor has anyone read all twenty-one episodes (or parts), because three were lost, and just rewritten, and there has been one new one added, and only the first eight ever published in magazines; so those of you whom have read the few that have been available certainly understand what I am talking about.
When I was young, prior to my college days, and world travels, and military days, and the war in Vietnam that I was in, before all this, I had a desire for fantasy, mixed with reality—H.P. Lovecraft was quite good at that (he added a lot of horror though, which I am not too fond of), as were others. With fantasy though comes actual convictions, things you think can really be, ideas, and so in those early days I was deeply convinced some of my fantasies on things were something more than pretend. And at times my mind was tremendously occupied with finding out what was behind or inside of these legends, and tales, and just were the truth line was. I read all twenty six volumes of my encyclopedias three times and in one period (18-months) read 400-books on they mysteries of the world, to include most religions, and demonology, and Christology, and theology, and all the zoologies, and ologies I could think of.
At any rate this is the way it comes to my mind, when I look back, and things perhaps haven’t changed all that much, except, now I’m putting them into stories. With all this in mind, during my college days, I studied psychology, and one of the areas I worked in was dual disorders, and behavior development (and behavior modification; along with drugs and substance abuse). I found I was more interested in their character, and the nature of things, and how one changes his behavior, which of course is by changing his reasoning, and can it be changed? How gullible people can be by producing emotions with simple speaking and gestures. And I even studied higher theology in my graduate work (eschatology), went to Haiti to see the voodoo and the Christians mingle together. All this of course plays a roll in the stories, or episodes I am talking about, in the making of “The Tales of Poseidonia,” it is why I chose this story among all the others to use as an example, bottom line must be somewhere around the word “nature.” This is not an experiment, it is expressed results in creating a book, experiences, activity, interesting things, life, it all goes tremendously onto the paper, in black ink. Hence, the reader comes to feel the mixture of things, and we all have mixtures, different in each person, depending on our history. And in most cases, most of our histories are long ones, and in creating this story where Ais the Queen of Atlantis shows up in the, I think third chapter, she is young, and you follow her all the way to the end. And the King of Atlantis, which starts from the first chapter, stops about three chapters short of the final chapter, and Ais carries it on. So we see history here, slowly.
So here was a quick glance at how I made the story, I hope it helps you.
(or the ‘Port of Poseidonia,’ Atlantis’ Demise)
I want to tell you about the gradual way I made: “The Tales of Poseidonia.” I made it gradually and it took me two years and four months to make it, but that is not what I mean by gradual. What I mean by gradual is the way the preparation was made inside of me, and how it developed into what you have read, may read, or might not read, but hear about, but what I wrote to be read. I will tell it, but perhaps it will sound too chronological, it is not meant to be, because for the most part it is relatively new. It was started in mid July, of 2004, and the last words written November 9, 2006 (now of course, revised).
To begin with, I must say I’ve learned how to listen, as well as speak, and I have of course much to say, as every writer should have, or why read, write, listen and talk. And so I have read much on Atlantis, the demons, the underworld, the Manticore, giants (even went to Malta to talk to the inhabitants about such legends)) and I myself have had some experience in this dark shadow)) and the Tiamat, all characters in the book: The Tales of Poseidonia. How else could I have known about everything I’ve written in the novel? (This is not an advertisement for the book; it is a lecture, for the most part, on the book, perhaps even a judgment to its value and credibility.) In other words, this is how I wrote the book, or wrote this soon to be book (2007).
I must admit, I always seem to be looking, listening, watching, but that is a way of learning for me, that is if one has the profound need to learn it can be a good way to go about it: I do with everyone around me, and everything around you if you are with me. And I begin this project as soon as I get up out of bed, every day of my life, to learn what I can put into my head, stories. For the most part, that is how I feel about it.
Those of you who have read a few of the parts of “The Tales of Poseidonia,” and thus far, no one has read the revised edition fully, nor has anyone read all twenty-one episodes (or parts), because three were lost, and just rewritten, and there has been one new one added, and only the first eight ever published in magazines; so those of you whom have read the few that have been available certainly understand what I am talking about.
When I was young, prior to my college days, and world travels, and military days, and the war in Vietnam that I was in, before all this, I had a desire for fantasy, mixed with reality—H.P. Lovecraft was quite good at that (he added a lot of horror though, which I am not too fond of), as were others. With fantasy though comes actual convictions, things you think can really be, ideas, and so in those early days I was deeply convinced some of my fantasies on things were something more than pretend. And at times my mind was tremendously occupied with finding out what was behind or inside of these legends, and tales, and just were the truth line was. I read all twenty six volumes of my encyclopedias three times and in one period (18-months) read 400-books on they mysteries of the world, to include most religions, and demonology, and Christology, and theology, and all the zoologies, and ologies I could think of.
At any rate this is the way it comes to my mind, when I look back, and things perhaps haven’t changed all that much, except, now I’m putting them into stories. With all this in mind, during my college days, I studied psychology, and one of the areas I worked in was dual disorders, and behavior development (and behavior modification; along with drugs and substance abuse). I found I was more interested in their character, and the nature of things, and how one changes his behavior, which of course is by changing his reasoning, and can it be changed? How gullible people can be by producing emotions with simple speaking and gestures. And I even studied higher theology in my graduate work (eschatology), went to Haiti to see the voodoo and the Christians mingle together. All this of course plays a roll in the stories, or episodes I am talking about, in the making of “The Tales of Poseidonia,” it is why I chose this story among all the others to use as an example, bottom line must be somewhere around the word “nature.” This is not an experiment, it is expressed results in creating a book, experiences, activity, interesting things, life, it all goes tremendously onto the paper, in black ink. Hence, the reader comes to feel the mixture of things, and we all have mixtures, different in each person, depending on our history. And in most cases, most of our histories are long ones, and in creating this story where Ais the Queen of Atlantis shows up in the, I think third chapter, she is young, and you follow her all the way to the end. And the King of Atlantis, which starts from the first chapter, stops about three chapters short of the final chapter, and Ais carries it on. So we see history here, slowly.
So here was a quick glance at how I made the story, I hope it helps you.
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