tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516883146124823702024-02-07T02:02:57.507+00:00alberta's sefuty chroniclesHere is where I blog about writing my novels and short stories - the influences, research and imagination behind them. Some facts, questions and ethical dilemmas.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-36908691591036062752016-03-10T12:14:00.000+00:002016-03-10T12:14:01.471+00:00Sefuty Snippets: Ellen's Tale & ROW80
Because I am hoping to bring the fourth In The Sefuty Chronicles out this year I have begun a new meme here. Sefuty Snippets. Hopefully here with ROW80 weekly(but I no longer promise things like that)I will post a snippet from one of the three already published.
Ellen’s Tale,The Storyteller’s Tale and Jack’s Tale
a) to remind those who have read them and having waited so long for this Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-20749840259951846072016-02-21T16:36:00.000+00:002016-02-21T16:36:52.683+00:00Brainstorming letters and words & ROW80
Had my friend from forever/editor up here these last few days and apart from hours of conversations and laughter we have been brainstorming a bit not only on my A-Z subjects - mainly the titles and which bit goes with which letter but also on a challenge set up by one of the members of my writing group down here on earth. The police alphabet- Alpha Beta etc all the way to Zulu, write a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-86318839202516770422016-02-15T10:58:00.000+00:002016-02-15T10:58:08.636+00:00Time may have a chat with me later:
I do like sunshine - blue skies and light all around. As a youngster I would spend hours baking and relishing in the sunshine. Unfortunately although I still like sunshine and blue skies at this time of the year both are normally a sign of low temperatures. I no longer revel outside in this bitter cold - I hibernate and watch the light from indoors. In the summer sun and blue indicate Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-31887100948233118292015-01-09T12:51:00.000+00:002015-01-09T12:53:08.567+00:00They have to part
I am not quite back in the routine this new year - am working on it honest but so the page does not remain empty for too long I am leaving a quote.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-50687738719883676942014-11-15T13:23:00.001+00:002014-11-16T15:16:30.354+00:00
AS some of you know I'm indulging in NaNoWrMo again this year, in the last fling to finish The Children’s Tale - I hope! This month long challenge to write 50,000 words of fiction in the four weeks is designed to focus the mind and to cast procrastination into the gloomy corners of a cave.
Does it work?
It has in the past, for myself and thousands of others, but the pace is frenetic Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-78883136856703132192014-10-13T13:17:00.000+01:002014-10-13T13:17:28.669+01:00Children finding their way
Many apologies for such a long absence - that old friend of mine, LIFE, came to stay and rather like those house guests in the old days of Jane Austin and Dickens just stayed and stayed:) LIFE is going to visit someone else , I hope, any day now but is going through that stupid ritual of just getting out of the door then remembering one last thing it forgot to mention. However, we are by Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-76862387304471007332014-06-16T21:43:00.003+01:002014-06-16T21:43:45.318+01:00Still the same spade! Blue Moon lives again:)
There is an old joke that keeps doing the rounds. A guy shows of a gardening, or DIY tool, proudly, with a tear in his eye, declares it’s the old hoe, spade, hammer that his father handed to him before his father died. ‘They built things to last back then’ is the proud declaration, ‘why this has only needed a new blade and two new handles in all that time. As good as the day his father Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-29814580241187965532014-06-06T23:01:00.000+01:002014-06-06T23:01:02.773+01:00May vanished now June is running past me!<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-55693594450774039672014-03-18T17:14:00.001+00:002014-03-18T17:14:58.309+00:00Eating people is wrong?
Last time I was writing about the dilemmas of population control probably facing a population who were isolated, with uncertain food supplies. But maybe I should have backtracked a little and discussed what would have have happened to the food supplies before they were so alone.
In the Sefuty Chronicles I had set up a world ripped apart by war. Catastrophic wars in fact. Due to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-86170977199503395832014-03-08T11:32:00.001+00:002014-03-08T16:10:55.510+00:00Whose life is the most important?
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Who should live or die?
We have grown up with the thought that we are all important, and I am still talking about my culture, I don’t know enough about other cultures to make sweeping statements. However, there are rumours of double standards, even here in our so called civilization there is a debate about whether everybody has the same rights Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-62768537663304038442014-02-13T17:14:00.000+00:002014-02-17T12:34:45.585+00:00So the weather is going crazy-what's the worst that can happen?
So the weather is going crazy
So the weather is going crazy-what's the worst that can happen?
It seems to many, this year, that the weather is going crazy. Abnormal events keep recurring as a tumble of dominoes. Droughts, floods, gales and hurricanes. Of course we have always had them, but are they growing worse, more erratic?
Life behind the mines would have been bearable for Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-31830519328446624072014-01-30T12:42:00.000+00:002014-02-17T12:39:48.321+00:00When a society collapses
When a society collapses
When a society collapses
The world of The Sefuty Chronicles is a grim place. During the Great Wars caused by climate change and lack of resources, many towns, villages and farms chose to hide, from the rioting hordes of desperation, behind rings of land mines. This was done with the promise of release when the war was over. The war never was over, the fighting Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-70449929460376586602014-01-21T11:39:00.002+00:002014-01-21T11:39:21.092+00:00
So how is progress with The Ancestor's Tale, the fourth book in The Sefuty Chronicles.
Actually, not so good.
I first realized the trouble I was in last summer, when I found, with careful contemplation,that what I was struggling with was in fact two books. They had inadvertently merged together. Now how has that happened?
I believe the problem was caused by the prolonged Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-10850735789094407962013-09-14T12:42:00.000+01:002013-09-14T12:58:12.771+01:00Fantastical kaleidoscope: alberta's mind
This blog has been sadly neglected of late - the only excuses are health related ones and as they are boring to go on about I will just say I hope to do better.
What hasn’t been mentioned here are my attempts at fantasy - because as I mentioned previously I do so enjoy a bit of fantasy. There is a whole raft of sub divisions here - of course! Grrr. Some of my friends say my whole mind isUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-55894212923381196352013-07-14T18:15:00.000+01:002014-01-21T11:40:17.475+00:00The magic of seeds, cleverness of mankind<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Editing The Ancestor’s Tale, the fourth in the series is a little late, you may think, for me still to be wondering what genre The Sefuty Chronicles should be slotted in. I myself have no care - I dislike labels with a vengeance but I do realise that for many folk this categorisation is essential. So my search has been continuing off and on. I lost last year for any kind of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-58522921204721629642013-05-05T15:29:00.000+01:002014-01-21T11:42:37.699+00:00Without the humble seed:food security
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Then we were taken to the seed bank. Well, it was, as I could see Ellen thought it would be, the highlight of the day. The Security was intense but the results were well worth it. It may not seem that exciting to look at, not like the Library, but oh … all those drawers filled with the future of life. Many of them no longer have a niche Outside to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-83182352825905958162013-03-23T23:33:00.001+00:002013-03-23T23:33:29.747+00:00Ellen's Tale goes weekly on Morgen Bailey's Novel Nights In
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Last year I had great
hopes of The Ancestor’s Tale hitting the book shelves. The year began well then rapidly then
unexpectedly turned into a trip over the Niagara
Falls in a barrel.
The fourth in the Sefuty Chronicles Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-56282514229826723512013-02-03T11:22:00.001+00:002013-04-29T16:31:50.135+01:00The Monk's Tale: food security part 4<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-67112045390868407962012-10-24T23:18:00.000+01:002012-10-24T23:24:31.297+01:00I Don't do Fantasy. Do I?<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-10567167477693139942012-10-07T00:09:00.000+01:002012-10-07T00:09:54.072+01:00spanning mankinds time on earth
I am having a break from the history lessons of doom:) some of you will be aware my health took a sudden dip this summer and I have sadly neglected not just home and garden but my blogs as well. I hope you will forgive me posting a previous blog. I realised I had said very little about my other publications, I write short stories as well as my dystopian series. So these Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-42676981862184612892012-07-29T21:22:00.001+01:002013-04-29T16:33:03.735+01:00Consumerism part of our genetic code?The Romans
Well
it could be that not many of you had heard of the Sumerians and their Empire, the
Bronze Age was a long time ago after all. But most people, I think, will have heard
of the Roman Empire. Moving into the Iron Age they
were, in fact, an incredibly successful Empire.
They
began small, don't all Empires. Italy
didn’t in fact have incredibly fertile land. To feed a growing Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-5269953541617069582012-07-12T09:22:00.005+01:002012-07-12T09:23:19.779+01:00There is no hosepipe ban anymore!
A quick aside from my historical food security patterns. Many of you have lived through worse weather oddities this year than I am reporting on. But any change to normal weather affects many aspects of normality. Britain is a great place to live. we have a moderate climate, we are on the whole moderate people! are the strange weather advents of this past year one offs Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-22040731934238976012012-07-08T09:06:00.000+01:002013-04-29T16:34:23.909+01:00Did it all begin in the Bronze Age?
Food Security part two.
It began a long time ago - humans began this cycle way- way- way back when. It is a fact that food
security actually depends upon a surplus of food. Some of my favourite
Neolithic peoples are the Sumerians, from ancient Mesopotamia. They, at about the same time as the Chinese,
developed, what is thought to be, the first stable agricultural system. AroundUnknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-451688314612482370.post-76881888402472811422012-07-01T18:07:00.000+01:002013-04-29T16:36:37.763+01:00Eat live insects, eat human flesh?
Food Security and the part it will play in our future.
I
am often asked why Sefuty? and have explained that is standing for food security
– se and ty = the security bit and fu = food.
Why food security as a title for a series? Well, it started as a short story, as I have
said before, but when I realised it was going to be long and I had to find a
title for it Sefuty Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3