PT Brainum: Blog

I started this series many years ago, simply doing research, combining events, technologies, and letting my mind imagine perfect choices. It began with two thoughts, grief over my father's Alzheimer's diagnosis, as I contemplated the years I spent with him in Oklahoma as a child.
The second event was my contemplation of the do over stories. It seemed that as soon as the main character changed anything, all his memories would be increasingly less helpful. It led me to try to imagine what knowing the results of actions would be like, and finally what would be required for a human to have true foreknowledge, a sort of Omniscience.
I finally began writing the story December of 2018. It went well, and I'm very pleased with the results. After part 4 or so I had an editor and that helped immensely.
While writing part 8, my father died. Suddenly I couldn't write anymore. It was a struggle to finish that section, and it's not as long as I had intended. I did my best to give it a good ending, at least for now.
Yes there is more story, John's not dead, just off on a new adventure elsewhere. Someday i hope to tell that story.
First though I'd like to go back, recompile all 8 parts, into a single combined story, adding new material, particularly dialog, which I find difficult to write, and breaking the parts into chapters.
I'll let you know when I start that project, but it'll be a while. Next up will be a re edited version of micro gates, I've got stuff for a sequel, but not a good plot for it yet.
Thanks for your votes, comments, and error reports. It's been a great five months, and i really appreciate everything all my readers had to say.
PT Brainum

I've renamed part 7 to better reflect that it is both part 7 and part 8. Just waiting on old rotorhead to finish the edit of 8 so i can post it. I've also adjusted the table of contents to better reflect this.
PT

Happy April 1st. Part 7 has been submitted for posting. It has been broken into chapters that will post during the next weeks. The first 2 chapters have been submitted, because chapter 1 would look like an April fool's prank without chapter 2.
The break up is to ease readability, and allows me to add in part 8 to the end of 7. As some of you know i stopped writing because of a personal tragedy while working on 8. I've wrapped it up, but it's not the complete part I had planned. While I hope to do more with this later, for now my muse is unavailable.
If chapter 1 fails to answer any long standing questions you have about events leading up to this point let me know so I can get them answered. The first chapter had long been my planned big reveal.
PT

Thanks to the work of my editor, Old Rotorhead, part 6 has posted. It will be up soon. Part 7 the direct sequel will be posted just as soon as possible, waiting on editing to complete. Sorry about the cliff hanger. A little bit, any way.

Part 5 of the John the genius series has been posted, and should be up relatively soon. Special thanks to Old Rotorhead for editing.

Part 6 likely won't post in February. It is too important that part 7 be posted immediately afterwards, so I'm waiting for both to be edited. I don't have a date for that, as my editor just got them, and he has a life beyond editing for me.

Part 7 will likely be the last part for a while. My Dad died a few weeks ago, and I just haven't been up to finishing part 8. Because I have tried to make each part stand alone this shouldn't be too much of a problem. Part 7 does an excellent job answering many of the unanswered questions.
PT