Cycle 406 Saga

In 2021, I wanted to do something different from my usual 954 Cosmos novels.  Something 'entirely' different from the Muneral Inc. novels.  I soon planned a trilogy of trilogies.  The first novel will be titled The Doktor, the next novel will be The End of Time, and the final one will be The Great Filter.  Each trilogy will have three parts, each with a subtitle.  I am not certain whether the trilogies will be three novels each, due to the fact that I rather not write stories that long.  I personally believe most stories do not need to be incredibly long, and short stories sometimes pack more of a punch rather than a longer one (just look at one of your favorite movies versus your favorite television show: extended time with a story does not equate to a better story, I think).

Anyways, my original intentions for this series was put aside when I decided as a Junior in college that the next novel I write would be my undergraduate thesis.  I did not want to write a trilogy (I did not know at the time that each trilogy could just be a long novel each), so I decided to instead write a completely new story that took place before these 'trilogies.'  I came upon writing The Pale Dragon of Kaloret which was much more fun and jovial in its tone than what I sought out for the rest of the novels.  Either way, it was incredibly fun to write, and I enjoy re-reading it still.  I even wrote my first poem that takes place in the same world as these novels.  It is called The Tohram-Ansolua, and it is a ~30 excerpt from a larger epic poem that I hope to one day finish.  I consider it Book I of a larger narrative.

After I defended my thesis in May 2024, I was finally done with The Pale Dragon of Kaloret.  I suppose that is not true, since I am still working on editing the novel to be ready for an agent to read (just grammatical issues).  I tried to write Muneral Inc. 3, but had to eventually make the decision to can the novel until some future time.  The original plan for the novel was just way too all over the place, and I tried to be truthful to it, but it ended up being nothing like what I wanted it to be, and eventually revealed to have no true direction.  It was very Stephen King in how I wrote my characters, so Susie and Roy will always be remembered by me.  The wretched ways of Roy and Susie's encounter with 'The Hairy Man' in the recesses of a sub-facility inside Muneral Inc. were so much fun to write.  But it was not a good novel, and so I decided to write something else.  

I began to write a different novel, The Observant One.  It was a science-fiction thriller that had some unique concepts.  But I was still drawn to return to Finitelize.  I had been daydreaming about a novel about The Nameless One from The Pale Dragon of Kaloret for some time.  I now know that his story belongs alongside the story of life and death (sounds cliché, I know) rather than his own story.  I decided to write a novel that contemplated my depiction of technology and the relationship of technology in a more sincere way than what I was able to do during the events of The Pale Dragon of Kaloret.  This new novel, The Future's Vale, is ~77,000 words long (for context, Pale Dragon is ~150,000 words long) and the 'real' story has not yet begun.  It is a whole lot of setup.  It is a dark novel, the darkest I have ever written.  I did not want to write a dark novel, but the story revealed itself to be very dark.  I must admit, I was inspired by the character of Oz from The Penguin and I decided to write a character like him plus Norman Bates from Hitchcock's Psycho.  This new novel is somehow better than The Pale Dragon of Kaloret, I think.  I cannot wait to share it, and the future novels I have in store.