September 2009 I went to bed like any other time and had a crazy dream about an elf but not an elf. The dream basically presented to me the concept of what if mythology was based off of alien encounters? Then I woke up with a very clear image of Xanari fixed in my mind.
I went about my day and the dream wouldn't let me go. I kept thinking about Xanari and laughed it away as I continued my daily chores.
The next night I slept again and dreamed of a white liquid which was truly remarkable. Healing properties and the ability to shift its taste to whatever I wanted. When I woke from that dream I scratched my chin and said "WTF?" because this dream also plagued me all day long, but it was now mixing with Xanari and no matter what was going on I kept revisiting those pieces.
The odd dreams kept coming and I kept telling my wife about it and I finally decided to start writing. When I sat down to write the title was instantly in my head CONVERGENCE 2012. I realized that even in 2009 that calling the book CONVERGENCE 2012 was potentially a very bad idea as typically a book when COMPLETED can takes over a year and a half to get picked up and published.
It didn't phase me and I started writing. Something amazing happened when I sat down. I didn't have a timeline, I didn't know where the story was going to go and when I started typing it just happened. Even now when I go back and reread it (I've now read the book 6 times) I'm still mystified. Why? because I don't remember writing large chunks of the story. It was as if the book wrote itself. (Spooky)...
In any event that is how I decided to write CONVERGENCE 2012...
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