In The Beginning

 Hi Everyone! Well, it's a day late, but I made it back. I figure it will take some time to get into a weekly writing session, but I am only human after all. 😎😎😎

I'll begin my publishing journey at the beginning: In the beginning Kim Bishop set out to write a story...Hmm, well, I think 3rd person is a bit much so, I'll continue on just using "I".

I thought it would be fun to write a story about the happenings I saw going on in the world around me...mostly in the church. So I sat down and began writing a short story, "The Church". Oh, I had plans for the story. I planned it all out in my head, wrote down names I would use, and had an entire ending ready to go!!! It would be short and to the point. Oh how little I knew of myself or the depth of my story-line.

In 1997 I began the story in a notebook--hand written. "In the 100 degree plus heat of Death Valley, Archaeologist Jason Fox tied a red, white and blue bandanna, over his sandy, blond hair, in hopes of preventing another attack of heat sickness." (Please forgive the grammar, it was the first draft. haha). The story continued much the same as the final product (Resistance The Revelations). I had finished Chapter 3 and decided to get a job, which put the story on the back burner. But in my head, the characters' adventures continued for 13 years before my husband bought me a laptop and encouraged me to finish it. (Jump to 2010)

You can imagine that in 13 years my world view had changed. Besides raising my boys, moving to England for two years, and becoming a community political activist, I had learned that there was a name to go with the changes happening in the world -- Agenda 21. While I had seen the effects of the United Nations plan in society and especially schools, I imagined that it was all in my head and since no one else made a big deal of it I must just be overly sensitive. I was wrong. 

The plots I had envisioned disappeared and Chapter 4 began with a new enemy...the United Global States of the Earth, or UGSE for short. New characters emerged, new plot lines intersected the original, and new technologies forced me to go back and change communications (1997 - 2010 had seen mass changes in technology). December to March I wrote chapters 4-8 and finished book one. And let me tell you, that the ending was NOT at all what I had envisioned when I sat down to write. (Although I did get my ultimate ending in Book 3, Resistance The Reckoning). Since I realized that my "short story" was now a novel preparing to be a series I made sure that it ended in such a way that it COULD be an ending but left room for a sequel.

I was very proud of the book and was still calling it "The Church" because I had no intention of actually publishing it for world wide consumption. I shared it with a few friends and they told me I had to publish it and even get it made into a movie. WOW! Well, after talking with my husband, who had decided once I was a best seller he could retire and live off my profits (hahaha), I decided to look into the wonderful world of publishing...BOOM! my head nearly exploded. So many choices. So many paths.

Join me next week to find out how my journey from writing to publishing kicked off!!!