Monthly Archives: October 2017

ALL STATEMENTS MADE IN THE FOLLOWING BLOG APPLY TO MY FICTIONAL UNIVERSE AND ARE NOT INTENDED TO CAUSE OFFENCE OR BE APPLIED TO REALITY

Last week, we touched on how ORSE, my own FICTIONAL CREATION could potentially revolutionise human understanding in the REAL WORLD.

This week I will reign in my creative impulses and we will explore the role of ORSE within the fictional universe of The Ratchworld.

In the Ratchworld, as well as in real life, we see how…..

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The acronym ORSE stands of Omni-Religious Seekers of Enlightenment.

This is the name of a multi-faith establishment seeking to convey universal truths, in a method accessible to people of all religions and facets of secular culture, to a generation for whom they are irrelevant.

ORSE exists currently as a fictional plot device in The Ratchwood Prophecies but it is my desire to communicate the philosophies and ideologies of ORSE to the world.  It has the potential to bridge the gaps…..

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It is easy to say “Ratchwood is a time travelling antihero who struggles with destructive influences in his life and believes he is on a God given mission to save the world”.  It would also be true to say this, although not for the entirety of the story.  Ratchwood grows and develops throughout the four volumes of The Ratchwood Prophecies and he is a very different time travelling antihero in each.

At the beginning of his journey, Ratchwood is dependent on…..

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The character of Ratchwood goes on an intricate journey of character development.  To realise this character development in full, you will have to read the 4 books, but here I will present a summary of his journey:

We join Ratchwood at point A in his journey, beset with a destructive and addictive personality and encouraging those impulses in Wicklow.

The discovery of a certain superhuman ability leads him to point B, where he sheds some destructive influences, but gains others…..

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The process of being inspired to write the Ratchwood Prophesies began in 2010 on a family holiday with my ex-wife and her parents.  I was in a state of marital regret, struggling with compensatory measures of a destructive and addictive personality.  As a form of escapism, I threw myself into the creation of a fictional character named after a village in Northumberland, because it sounded like a good name for an anti-hero, struggling with the responsibilities of time travel.

At…..

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