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key	7HXJH4IE
title	Unity
author	Connolly, James D.
item type	Book
publication year	2022
date	2022
abstract note	Welcome to my new novel Unity. It, like all my stories, begged to be told. For me, novels rise out of a title, or initial story idea, something meaningful that has inspired me, or something I see as important to share. It is most often all of these things, and they drive me to go through the effort it takes to write a novel. Writing for me is essentially a labour of love, love of story, and love of meaning and understanding. Sharing meaning and understanding, as well as exploring them. Writing is exploring for me, because as I write a story I explore. Ideas rise out of reflection on a particular theme, and the creative process itself; symbols and characters are found, and ideas and concepts come as you focus on the subject. But in saying all this, this particular book is essentially just a story, even though some reflection on the book, and deeper, or shared, reflection on parts of it, will yield up many essential aspects of unity. This novel is a work of fiction though, and only my own thoughts. The opening quote, and others the back of the book provide a Baha’i view of unity if you wish to explore its nature further. I wanted to write this particular story because of the original story idea. A flow of ideas was born from it and the main theme arose from the story very organically as I went. I wanted to tread more lightly with the main theme than in my other novels, yet still serve it. The story itself developed very differently than I thought it would, becoming as much a story of redemption. I tend to let a story tell itself, with the aid my characters keeping true. A story needs to be set free, yet structured; structured, yet free to roam where it will. That is the nature of writing to me. Like anyone who seeks to explore and refine their art, I needed to write this book; just a story that gently reaches deeper themes. I needed to write Crash too, and I need to write Clown Town, to develop as a writer and storyteller, and reach a more universal audience. Crash became much more than I imagined and gently beautiful. Clown Town, well that will be a life’s work, in that it explores all the ages of life we all travel through here, and lessons of life which loomed large for me in each; with a bit clowning around, huh huh. Crash and Clown Town are very human books. I hope you enjoy Unity, this far off future, space adventure. I hope the characters bring you some joy, and some humanity, as they walk the path that fate has set them on. I hope you, and I find, a greater understanding of unity; what it means in a wider sense, and what it means in the simple things of life with our very human differences. But mostly, I hope you just enjoy the story and the characters; the twists of life and the quirks of being human. So…board the Perpaduan with me…and let’s blast off together, to see what we will find.
number pages	236
publisher	[Publisher not stated]
place	[Place not stated]
language	English
manual tags	UNITY; YOUTH; FICTION

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