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Mark David Gerson
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The StarQuest
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Author Insight
Freeing the Story to Reveal Itself
I didn't know Q'nta's story any more than Q'nta (in her amnesia) knew her own when I began writing The StarQuest. Even though The StarQuest follows The MoonQuest in my Q'ntana fantasy trilogy, its plot is largely independent of its predecessor's, and the story so challenged me that I started the first draft three times over 11 years before finally finding my way to the end. Despite my many false starts, though, every draft of The StarQuest began with this scene, so symbolic of the way I write: moment-by-moment, word-by-word, freeing the to story reveal itself to me in the writing of it the same way it reveals itself to you in the reading of it!
Book Excerpt
The StarQuest
The face in the glass was a stranger’s. The face in the glass was my own.
I stared up at it, willing it to reveal itself to me. But it, like me, knew nothing. Nothing of who I was. Nothing of where I was. Nothing of how I got here.
Nothing of what “here” was.
All I knew of my world was this round room lit by round windows and filled with a scattering of round furnishings, all draped with the same coarse, unbleached floor-length cloth stamped with the same faded design: an eight-pointed star enclosed in a sunlike circlet. All I saw of the world I viewed through the round mirror suspended above my round bed. All I heard of the world was my breath, resonant against a pall of absolute stillness.
How my body ached. I couldn’t say why, only that each time I tried to sit up, I collapsed impotently back onto the bed. Time passed...or didn’t, as I lay motionless and bewildered, waiting for...for what?
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