I can remember spending literally hundreds of hours trying to edit "Memories Chapter 1 through 11". I had no idea just how hard editing is (especially of your own work in writing). Over time you sort of get attached to your writing (at least I do) and it takes on a life of it's own much like your children do. When they start out they are like a lump of clay that poops it's pants and gurgles and drinks milk and slowly often they laugh and call you Da Da (they usually say this first simply because it's much easier to say "Da Da than Ma Ma". So, don't be surprised if the first words out of your baby's mouth is "Da Da" by the way.
But, editing sort of reminded me of clipping your kids nails to close where the fingers might bleed some and then you would feel really bad about it. So, editing after spending hundreds or thousands of hours writing something is really really painful I find.
I started writing about Arcane in 1980 and at that time I believed in sequential reincarnation like my parents did as Mystical Christians in California. However, in 1998 and 1999 I was dying of a heart virus (but somehow I survived it) and I was the only person I know of in California in 1998 and 1999 that survived a heart virus that year by the way.
But, as I prepared to die in 1998 and 1999 when I was around 50 years old I realized that I had it wrong because a soul has nothing to do with time and space at all and lives all lifetimes simultaneously. I was amazed when I realized this. One of the reasons I was amazed was that it meant I wasn't just writing therapeutic science fiction it meant that I was writing about past, present and future lifetimes that my soul had already experienced since it doesn't live in time and space unless I'm wearing a human body here on earth.
Then I realized just how important it was to share these lifetimes with others and by 2002 or 2003 I had started to publish my stuff that I call "Memories" online first at a geocities site (they no longer exist) and then later at "intuitivefred888 and finally at dragonofcompassion.com.
But, the hardest part of writing is trying to edit what you have written effectively.
Especially when you have been writing something since 1980 and it has become your own personal creation story just like every tribe on earth has their own creation story too.
So, from my point of view one of the keys to my own enlightenment is sharing my personal Bible of past, present and future lives as mostly human beings with you so that it helps the human race learn to navigate what has happened and what will happen in the future.
By God's Grace
If you are interested in reading the first 11 parts of Memories here are links (word buttons) to these writings.
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