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The final chapter of Galaxy Tales is up. It includes minor edits from my v2 reviewers. This book will now be shelved while I switch gears to write The Lord of the Earth. Galaxy Tales needs a major rewrite, where I convert God into two different archangels, one for Joseph and one for Apollo. It's easier to have fun with archangels without being too irreverent to Christians, my target audience.

Seabrass and K, thanks for helping me finish v3.

Amen!
Dirk

Rayner, I can't remember if I already told you this, but you can subscribe to this thread (upper right of the screen) to be notified via email when there's a new post.

I can't believe Netflix yanked episodes one and two of Lord of the Rings. Fortunately I own the DVDs. Short version, not the interminable extended editions.

Interesting trivia: the episode of Gilligan's Island mentioned above was rated as the third funniest episode of any show of all time by Inside TV Land. TV Guide rated it number 50.

Tonight's episode of Gilligan's island included a buffet of props and costumes. Phil Silvers guest starred as a producer whose plane went down near the island. According to the radio he was planning a new musical and Ginger pretended to be various Broadway characters as she served him dinner. When she asked for a part in his musical, he laughed at her overacting. To help Ginger, the castaways put on a musical of Hamlet, one of many books that they brought with them on the tour. I've lost count of how many textbooks the professor had on the show over three seasons. They also had fancy butler and maid uniforms for Mr. Howell and his wife, as they were forced to serve Silvers until his rescue boat could arrive. Mr. Howell even had on white gloves. For the musical, they had records and a gramophone from the Howells, crowns and royal robes for a king and queen, multiple wigs, and a fake beard for the Skipper. They wrote silly songs related to Hamlet to go with the records, which were instrumental classics. Silvers slips out at night when his rescue boat arrives. They subsequently hear on the radio that Silvers is planning a musical version of Hamlet, his most brilliant idea to date.

Definitely more entertaining than The Last Jedi so far.

Tried watching The Last Jedi again. Made it to the thirty-minute mark before I got bored. The worst part so far includes Poe's lone attack on a dreadnought with the First Order not launching a single fighter while he takes out all the cannons. Luke's angry-hermit act is also ridiculous, as Mark Hamill told Rian Johnson at the time.

There's much to be said for planning a trilogy if you're going to make three movies. I hope my next draft of Galaxy Tales ends up in better shape. And most especially The Lord of the Earth trilogy.

As a former Star Wars fan, the only way to save this sh*t is to bring Mara Jade (Luke's wife in the novels) back into canon and have her return as the mother of Rey, with Luke as her father, except he didn't know it. That would explain why Rey is so powerful (both parents being strong in the force). She could train Rey and would also make an acceptable replacement for Leia. There's a rumor that's what they may be doing.

Thanks, Vern. I'm familiar with some of those stories, but I can't use them. He has to remain Christlike except as noted above. I need it that way for story purposes.

The vague origins of the supernatural attacks is what I settled on in an earlier post. However, for book one, I have to be vague about who Connor really is. It's revealed at the end of the book. The trilogy is his journey.

I read about some of them a while back. I want Connor to maintain an angelic aura, so my best course is probably to have events occur at the orphanage that seem to be someone attacking Connor's foes. As noted earlier, it could be someone working to defend him from his bullies or someone working to get him blamed for revenge-like acts that happen to his bullies and to the priest who doesn't like him. I'm not sure yet how far to take it. It's a supernatural thriller, so a murder at the orphanage isn't out of bounds, although I don't plan to use much gore, since the target audience is Christians. The Catholic Church plays a large role throughout the book.

My thanks to everyone for their ideas. This was very helpful.

Thank you, both.

What do you all think of this?

Connor suffers from inexplicable visions that are emotionally and physically painful to him. In book one, they're Old Testament visions. In book two, they cover the past two millennia. In book three, they cover the Book of Revelation. Nice, orderly progression so far.

However, in much of book one, Connor is travelling the Holy Land in Jesus's footsteps because the Church wants to know if he is Christ returned and they're hoping to jog his memory of his former life, of which Connor has no recollection. I should point out that in one of the verses of the New Testament, 12-year-old Jesus already knew to a limited extent that God the Father was His father. Connor is already 14.

In addition to his OT visions, he will also see Jesus's former presence along all the stops they make in the Middle East, mostly in the form of an aura of some kind. Unlike the auras, his involuntary visions are more like real life. It's as if he is actually there in history, a participant in the ancient events.

Do you think readers will be able to keep those two kinds of visions straight? I need both for the story to work. I'm just curious whether it sounds particularly complicated. I'll use consistent terminology for the two: auras vs visions, and he'll never see both at the same time. If I can I'll limit these so there's only ever one of the two in each chapter, although that may not always be possible. The true-to-life visions will be in their own scenes, with Connor as the narrator. The auras will only ever occur when I'm in Father Romano's scenes (Connor's chaperone), with Connor relating what he sees about the auras. I may name the visions "experiences" instead, since he seems to be there for them.

Thoughts?
Dirk