Psi Rebel Dynasties was a story/novel/series I wrote for some of 2009 and most of 2010. The intention was to tell the story of Jerna Ree’s journey on creating the Psi Rebels, and then the following generations up to 19 Aracan 3000 when Hawk came into the picture.
But, it was kind of a failure. I mean, that said, I have some of my very favourite scenes in Rise of Hawk and it did to some degree show the sequences and events in three generations of Psi Rebels, but the story was patchy with large sections of time between events and it didn’t match the format that is most compatible with a traditional novel. I pretty much finished first gen and second gen, and half did third and fourth gen, and put it aside because I wanted to start on my precious Hawk generation story (Rise of Hawk).
While I was writing Psi Rebel Dynasty I collected a bunch of data on the Rebels pertaining to all of the Rebels pre-Hawk, their births, deaths, what happened to them etc. Then I collated the information and created “Jerna’s Notebook”, at first digitally and then eventually I got enough book binding skills to create a hard copy. I found it again today in one of my Universe archive boxes. As I read through it, and partially re-lived their stories through Jerna’s “notes”, then Ain, Jean, Krena and finally Hilla, an idea developed in my head.
What if I keep the Psi Rebel Dynasty story pretty much as it is, in little pockets of stories, and use a digital version of Jerna’s Notebook as the index for these stories. People can read each story separately. I mean, most of the stories build upon the previous stories, but are also just fine as their own story.
I’d have to go back and re-write second gen, and figure out what I want to do with the Kaan story (re-write, finish or cut out the middle sections of the story) and the escapes between the loss of the Kaans and the Rise of Hawk.
Make the Dynasties section deliberately cut up into smaller stories. And then add to them with Post-Hawk escape stories and side stories and stuff.
Jerna’s stories are pretty much all ready to go up and be posted. I’d just need to figure out where I want to put Jerna’s Notebook in the website, and figure out a different book-type background to serve as the background of the pages. Maybe make the index page the contents at the beginning of the Notebook.
Problem being that it might be difficult to do for the post-Hawk stuff because by 3004 there are over 2,000 Rebels, and almost all escapees from the Agency. I’m not keen on writing all of the escapes, just those mentioned in Rise of Hawk, and perhaps… maybe… some of Jaola’s adventures from 3007-3010.
I’ll have to figure out the structure so that it can be expanded and contracted depending on the stories I want to put up or have time to write.
I probably won’t start this idea in earnest until I’ve finished a full draft of Rise of Hawk so I know what will be involved. And of course I’ll need to do that very final edit check of Time Speaker and make it available to buy on lulu etc. before I can really start in earnest on this. But, it might be another way of getting all these fucking stories out of my head and bring in a little more cash.
We’ll see. I’m not sure Novellas would sell would they?
