Sitting around plotting the novel... thinking it sounds dum.

  sitting around the last few weeks imagining story lines for a new novel.  Amazing how a thought can obsess me for weeks, months... years (off and on, you know).   This is the tale I want to tell about people caught in a micro world, who are effected by macro events.   The micro for me is the character driven story that I want to write. .  In the macro, the characters are two reincarnated souls, who have been picked out by a secret order of monks, and raised, along with a group of others, quietly in a small town setting, where they were placed with parents, and basically raised under deep  cover.  An isolated town in the woods of Northern Michigan with a couple thousand people.

The story starts with their order being attacked.  Men in black.  These two are taken by the monks and elaborately escape.  The others stay behind, they realize in the end, merely as a diversion to make sure they escape.

The two are men, in their late twenties, unrelated.  Neither has been told what soul the monks found in their flesh.  They would have been told at the end of their education at 33.

They go into hiding... lasts for years...  then one day, of course, of course....  one of them notices they are bugged.... then strange men in black suv's...  at first they are afraid, but then they realize these people must someone be almost their benefactors, or security -- because, again, years pass and nothing changes.

When these soldiers do come to them, they explain that the monks were killed off by a satanic faction sent by satan to stop them from rehabilitating and sabotaging souls he considered his own, to send upside as serial killers etc...  The monks believed the end times had come, and one of two, who I have not named yet, call them frank and rob.  anyways, they think Rob is Iesus and that means this is the end time.  Jesus has lived many lives but they could tell this time he was going to end up being jesus again, fullfilling the prophesy.  So they expected to be attacked, because what else could the satanists do except try to stop him>  They planned long before to let themselves all die to ensure his escape, and considered this an honor, and assurance that all of the children in their care would make it to heaven.


I want to make the feel of the prose very paranoid but  also very probable.  The characters will have a difficult time accepting these lives.  And spend a lot of time wondering just what the hell is up in the world.

Time comes that the news begins flashing that some kind of horrible event in the Soviet Union has caused them to actually nuke a few of their own cities, telling the world they believe they have been invaded by aliens, which is at first thought to be a cover story or hiting off some rebels, but then slowly becomes clear to the world that two forces are battling, seemingly made up of creatures of lightening and fire.

The war converges on their town.  The two watch it play out on the news.

Then the end... of the war in the heavens.  Now, this is where I am not sure where I am going to go.  I play it out different ways and nothing seems to work.  I can hear the two main characters having conversations, and trying to deal with the death and question marks and their own destiny as men who cannot just go live a life of  making a few bucks and procreating.

  I have written so much about Christ lately that I sort of want to use a different character but I still have so much more to say... a quandry.

I suppose I could write a different christ for each and every book I put out.  Symbolically, this is what some people do of course,  of course...

I now see the end with this huge battle between satans angels... and God.s  Jesus of course will end up being the deciding factor in this scenario.  Maybe he steps into the battle by remembering a dream he had, and making it real...  something he has never even considered he could do, then does...  a complete surprise... he lets lightening flow from his back and lava from his chest...  destroys the planet in his rage.  this action then frees them all from the trap of having to reincarnate again and again...  he finds he has such great powers that he creates ghosts for all of the animals who have ever lived, and begins leading a great procession through space to the face of god...