Magestic (created 2009)
Magestic is the story of a time traveller, sent back from the future to 1985 to try and fix the world. A calamity awaits in 2025, the world needing to take a different course. Wars need to be avoided, certain politicians disgraced before taking office. But the traveller spends most of his time and energy building up a medical rescue charity.
The book is a political thriller more than sci-fi. Action; wars, humour and some romance.
Magestic is a large book, already 700k words and growing. It has been split into several parts for ease of reading, and the formatting on certain sites.
Note. Magestic is a long novel, and deliberately so. It is aimed at on-site readers who want more, not less. So a passing "normal" reader may find it very long. It is aimed at those who have time.
*RTF format avilable, email and request
*Magestic 18 is the conclusion.
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Alternate formats are available for blind readers/listeners.
The writing of Magestic, an on-line series
I started Magestic to simply pass the time, and because I like writing and interacting with my fan base. But after I put the start of the story on various websites like SOL, the fan base grew, many hundreds of people commenting about the story and following it.
It then became a case of feeding the hungry hordes as they nagged for the story to be continued. Since the story covered human history from 1985 to 2035, it was always going to be a long story, and ended up the equivalent of twelve full novels – a lot of work. I got into the habit of pleasing the readers and churned out 40k words a week. I could have posted faster, but 3 days were spent editing and sending documents back and forth to helpers looking for typos.
I would never again attempt something this size, and do in some ways regret starting it. I would not say that it was a mistake, but other pressures in my life made it hard to keep up. Anything I write in the future will not be serialised, but take the form of complete independent novels of normal novel length, approx 65k words. The first of those, a spy book, has already been started.
At the beginning, Magestic was posted unedited on various sites, then edited, then finally edited by a group of people – and I went back over the later chapters many times. I will, when I have the time, go back through the whole thing and edit, improving it for later readers. But what you see is as it was written, very little altered other than typos. Most of the first 10 parts had next to nothing altered, which probably shows. Other works that I have written have been checked many times, and future works will checked carefully. As for the plot constructs, I had a rough idea of where I was going, but no intricate plan, nothing written down. As I writer, I don’t like to know where the story will end up, that would be boring to write. I start with a basic premise and flow from there. I will sometimes write a random move, just to see how I, the writer, can get the thread back, and how the characters react. There are more random turns in the work than you may think.
Very little research was done for Magestic, I simply used my knowledge, checking dates online. I did, on occasion, put countries in the wrong position, and forget the odd election – till readers pointed it out.
Magestic 18, the conclusion, will be ready by June 12, and the new books will be posted on this website only. Thank you for your interest, and now my fingers hurt.