Bringing Magic Back

In a novel I'm working on I am bringing magic back. Magic as in Mana -- energy from the ground or from the Earth. I want the experience to be as near to it happening today, as far as story lines and effects and focus. We're busy people today. It would be a major event but not all at once and not for everyone at once.

There are two effects that I want to happen as soon as possible in the story and one is that the sky is going to turn green. The other is that oil is going to begin losing its covalence -- it's bonding-- the individual molecules are going to lose their attraction to each other, reducing what is left to a dusty sludge.

I began the story and ran it for 19 chapters as a crime thriller. It is a romance so the two main characters have to hook up. The main story is a US Marshal protecting a woman from the mafia. She was the witness to a crime -- four murders -- four executions. The two of them are in Central Texas at the moment.

"Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened" 

-- Thomas Hardy 

A friend of mine told me that all of the twists in the movie Fargo were created to work the writers out of the corner they wrote themselves into -- this time -- there are multiple twists in that movie. This is not from writing myself into a corner, but rather from massive system failure. 

Back in November I began this story, and posted daily what I wrote as a serial on Wattpad. Then, after a series of tech failures, I lost access to the story. 

At the time I wrote using as my main tool, Scrivener. I had some trouble with that program -- likely caused by the systemic issues I suffered with the computer itself -- and began searching for a solution. I found one in Notion.so. 

Over the last couple of months I've been working on a 'writing desk' setup for Notion and I've been pleased with the results and the malleable state they remain in for the design. This is an intoxicating feature of Notion, being that no matter how firm I set up the writing desk, with the flick of the mouse I can alter it to fit a new need if one arises.  

The Wordthy project still haunts me, even with ChatGPT having solved most of the needs it would have eased. I still want my thesaurus. After several days of experimentation, I'm now certain that ChatGPT will help me get my Wordthy program active.

As soft as breath from breasts

As strange an attractor as cleavage

Whisper the words I have left

Whisper the change of season

Garments off her shoulders fell

trapping him in her spell

Not only that, but AI is going to keep me working for many years after I would normally have faded in mental ability. Not to write for me, but to utilize the broad-mind ability it has and keep track of what I'm thinking about.