Pioneer Children

I have been working on a story that bounces forwards and backwards in time, sliding a woman between realities that she tells herself are just dreams. The first jump happens when she is 33 years old about to die in a car crash, then she finds herself at age 17, driving a car down the same road, on an equally rainy night.
I have yet to bridge the 17 to 37, but that jump finds her in a completely different place, a passenger in a truck. I think the jumps will happen when she is in a vehicle. I know the start of the metaphysical transformations will be a teenage desire to get out of the life she is living. Not suicide but an astral projection or quantum teleportation of the soul from one thread of existence into another. I do not have the scientific background to accurately describe how this might come to be, but the idea is that the character begins reading and studying these concepts and in high stress occasions can move her consciousness from one time period to another.

In writing about the 37 year old character, she has written a chronicle of her life as a polygamous wife. The title of her book is Pioneer Children. I don't know why this title has stood out to me, clicked in my brain, but I think it would be a great title for a book. I don't know whether I want to write about polygamy and that would be the title or the descendants of polygamists or simply about the lives of the children of Mormon pioneers (I suppose polygamy being such an emotional topic, it would do well). I also do not know if I will just write a fictional book about being a pioneer or a descendant of them.

I had started writing a story called, Walking a Step Behind Addie Buck, but I became stuck and it's completely unfinished. It has so much further to go... darn it all.

Anyway, I was pleased to find that my Nanowrimo 2006 story, Her Secrets, had been saved here in my blog... Well, the first chapter, anyway. Oh my gosh, I forgot how sticky and horribly detailed it was. Maybe it's good that it's locked away in a file that I can't get to. If only I could remember what my password was on Tony's laptop! Then I could unlock it. BUT maybe it's better that it remains in limbo... It's a sad story and writing it opened up my soul in a way I never thought possible.

I love writing so much... In a perfect world I would go take some literature classes and perfect the writing process so that I would be publishable. Perhaps my stories would not get so bogged down that I can't write on them. So many stories that are half-written with no resolution. Ugh!
I need to have help in transitioning from one point to the next.

But Pioneer Children... What a delicious topic! So much to sink one's teeth into!

We'll see where we go with the meta-physical/quantum dynamics story... I love sci-fi but I'm not great with the sci part of it! ;-)

-- D