The Great I Am - #000
11:07 AM | Author: UrbanProphet
A Word From The Author

I've decided as an attempt to push myself to finish writing that damn book i've been saying I'd write for the last few years, I'm going to publish a few pages of it every week on my blog as a web book. At this rate I think I should be able to complete the book within 6 months if I write roughly 3,000 to 4,000 words per week I should have a decent if, smallish, book of just over 80,000 words. The epilogue and the first 2 chapters are actually from stuff I've already written, I've had to modify them a bit to fit in this medium. Mind you this is going to be a live work in progress otherwise, so please if you see any spelling mistakes or simply have a point to give, please do leave a comment. I'll be publishing every Monday, and perhaps thursdays depending on my work load. It'll be the best way to for me to finish writing the book as all this while I've been procrastinating with the writing because it seems like such a daunting task to write.

Anyway, this book, or rather e-book now, with its current story line has been a project of mine for at least 2 years but has its roots actually in several other pet story lines I've been working on for at least 15 years. Of course none this has ever been published and mostly resides in notebooks literally scattered across the four corners of the world. Thankfully a vast majority of my notes still is in my head. All of that provided me with a working world to play with and a back-story for The Great I Am.

You could say that the story is actually the last monologue of a dying man who hasn't realize that he's dying yet. After finally realizing his predicament, man truly sees for the first time what it means to exist and understands who he truly is and what everything really represents. It's from this self realization that he finds himself suddenly planted in a world new to him, how he got there, why he's there, and more importantly, how he'll get back, is all but unclear to him.

I would like to think of this work as an exploration into the different philosophical stand-points and discuss them and how they differ from one another and how much the same they truly are. At the same time I'll try to inject some humanity and humour into what essentially would be incredibly dull and boring to read otherwise. I've always found that in order to ensure that the message gets delivered, humour works wonders. 

Anyway, I'll be posting the first part of the Epilogue this Thursday, 26th Feb 2009 by twelve noon EST. Hopefully I won't be delayed, but unless something really drastic happens, I should be posting it on time. Anyway, I have a lot of work, redoing the Prologue, so until Thursday, ciaou!

Nik
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