Visionary Fiction

Visionary Flop to Best Seller

Visionary Flop to Best Seller

Editor’s note: We are re-posting an article originally published in 2014, one worth repeating in that it encourages visionary fiction readers and writers to take heart. Good works of visionary fiction can—and do—become word-of-mouth hits. ***************** What if I were to tell you that one of the best selling books in history is visionary fiction? Say what? Yep, The…

The Power of Place In Writing Visionary Fiction – Jodine Turner

The Power of Place In Writing Visionary Fiction – Jodine Turner

Editor’s Note: We are posting this repeat of one of our readers’ most commented upon articles, with some new additions. We invite you to share your thoughts and continue the discussion! ************* Have you ever thought about the power of place, of setting, in writing your Visionary Fiction novel? In The Writer’s Chronicle, (Vol. 51,…

Sex, Intimacy and Exclusivity in the Afterlife – The Mater’s Series Part 3 – VM Franck
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Sex, Intimacy and Exclusivity in the Afterlife – The Mater’s Series Part 3 – VM Franck

Part Three of The Mater’s Series An Alternate View of What Comes Next Gary’s eyes were large, way too large.  As he awakened from surgery they appeared to be swollen, waterlogged marbles about to burst open.  Around the two of us the recovery room was sparse and barren.  Standing beside the gurney, I waited for…

Creating a Universe for a Visionary Novel – Part 2 –  by Christina Greenaway

Creating a Universe for a Visionary Novel – Part 2 – by Christina Greenaway

In Part One of this blog, I covered World Building, the use of a Sacred Force, Time, and Location. Part Two begins with Settings. SETTINGS Interiors can help establish the mood of your novel and support the emotional landscape of your characters. My novel Time Blade follows the main character, Sky Hunter, through several incarnations. In…

Creating a Universe for a Visionary Novel – Part 1 – by Christina Greenaway
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Creating a Universe for a Visionary Novel – Part 1 – by Christina Greenaway

It is said that to sit at the feet of the master is to walk across heaven. Writing visionary fiction comes with its own wonder-filled process. (Because my own visionary works are most familiar to me, I will draw my examples from them.) Recently, an interviewer asked if I had a favorite character in my…

Pitching Your Novel to Agents – Jodine Turner
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Pitching Your Novel to Agents – Jodine Turner

Writers should attend a writing conference at least once in their writing career. The networking, experience, and information presented enhance our craft, and these riches transfer into our written words. I had the pleasure of recently attending the Willamette Writer’s conference in Portland, Oregon. Attending was a last-minute opportunity and I grabbed it, even though…

If You Could Bring Someone Back to Life, Would You? – The Mater’s Series Part 2 – VM Franck
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If You Could Bring Someone Back to Life, Would You? – The Mater’s Series Part 2 – VM Franck

Part Two of The Mater’s Series Love, Loss and Resurrection Mahogany-brown eyes gazed back at me from across the table.  Aaron’s eyes.  Sipping rosé I absorbed his soul, drawing it unto my own, hoping somehow to keep it there forever.  Shades of love wavered in from the past, shades I had known as experience transformed…

Bring on the Crazy Women – The Mater’s Series Part 1 – VM Franck
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Bring on the Crazy Women – The Mater’s Series Part 1 – VM Franck

Part One of The Mater’s Series Peering into Tenacity, Strength and Wisdom Do you miss them…the old women in your family, your friends or neighbors, the ones who withstood all life thrust at them and emerged stronger for it?  Maybe by the time you realized how much you longed to know their secrets, how they…

Using Creative Trance To Write Visionary Fiction
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Using Creative Trance To Write Visionary Fiction

By Mary Mackey. Revisited guest post from 10/10/16. Your unconscious is packed with ideas, metaphors, visions, plots, dreams, colors, characters, emotions—in short, everything you need to write a great visionary novel. But how do you get to it? How do you step out of the social agreement we call “reality,” and dip into this incredibly…

Reincarnation – Was Jesus of Nazareth My Big Brother? – VM Franck
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Reincarnation – Was Jesus of Nazareth My Big Brother? – VM Franck

“I am the little sister of Jesus,” the young Caucasian man said. Dressed in time-faded jeans, a tee shirt and Hush Puppies, he slouched on a couch in a cottage on the grounds of the Miramar Hotel. Overly thin with blondish-brown hair and wearing Superman glasses, he epitomized the look of a writing nerd. It…

Theosophy and Visionary Fiction, Part Two

Theosophy and Visionary Fiction, Part Two

[In Part One of this post, we discussed the similarities and differences between theosophy and theology, the two forms of theosophy (Blavatskyian with a capital-T and generic with a small-T), and that the spirituality prescribed by theosophy has the elements of universalism and perennialism in common with the definitions of Visionary Fiction.] Theosophy (Small-t) Proper…

Writers Conferences and Your Soul – guest post by Stephen Weinstock
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Writers Conferences and Your Soul – guest post by Stephen Weinstock

WRITERS CONFERENCES… AND YOUR SOUL I saw a clip from a TED talk the other day that enumerated the top ten factors that enabled people to live to a hundred years old. Yes, there was a focus group of long-living folks and tons of data about them. The topmost factor? Connecting with other people on…

The Visionary Benefit in Fiction: From C.S. Lewis to Me
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The Visionary Benefit in Fiction: From C.S. Lewis to Me

I would like to honor one of my favorite writers, Mr. Clive Staples Lewis, briefly showing how his intuitive genius made him a famous exemplar through works closely related to the “visionary fiction” genre. C.S. Lewis is the author of the well-known Chronicles of Narnia series, as well as a less known but most inspiring…

A New American Vision: Rethinking Our Past and Future Mythologies, Part 2 –  Guest Post by Marian A. Lee
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A New American Vision: Rethinking Our Past and Future Mythologies, Part 2 – Guest Post by Marian A. Lee

Vision is not mere fantasy devoid of pragmatic realism but an expression of our core values linked to universal experiences.  For a nation that used to pride itself on a universal concept of E Pluribus Unum (out of many, one), we have politically divided and compartmentalized ourselves in the “Pluribus,” but have precious little “Unum”…

A New American Vision: Rethinking Our Past and Future Mythologies, Part 1 –  Guest Post by Marian A. Lee
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A New American Vision: Rethinking Our Past and Future Mythologies, Part 1 – Guest Post by Marian A. Lee

Black Elk, a Native American visionary and Lakota Sioux medicine man chronicled by John Neihardt in Black Elk Speaks, believed a coherent vision to be central to a people’s well-being.  Black Elk’s prophetic message was clear—“Without vision, the people perish.”  A vision encompasses not only the values and goals a people strive to honor but…

Why the Genre of the Old Testament is Visionary Fiction – Guest Post by Stefan Emunds
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Why the Genre of the Old Testament is Visionary Fiction – Guest Post by Stefan Emunds

This is what archaeologists have learned from their excavations in the Land of Israel: The Israelites were never in Egypt, did not wander in the desert, did not conquer the land in a military campaign and did not pass it on to the twelve tribes of Israel. Perhaps even harder to swallow is that the united…

Setting the Stage: Visionary & Metaphysical Fiction – guest post by Karen Rider
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Setting the Stage: Visionary & Metaphysical Fiction – guest post by Karen Rider

Editor’s Note: Karen Rider’s insightful article was originally published in January, 2013 on our VFA blog site. We thought the discussion it catalyzed was worth having it reposted. We invite you to enjoy and comment!   Setting the Literary Stage for Visionary & Metaphysical Fiction Rapid-fire change is ongoing in the publishing industry—and it’s not just…

Once Upon a Time – A Visionary Fiction Perspective

Once Upon a Time – A Visionary Fiction Perspective

I first started watching Once Upon a Time with my daughters this year.  The visionary fantasy story was created for television by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. It focuses on a young boy, Henry, who believes that his book of fairytales is based on real-life events. The setting is Storybrooke, Maine where Henry’s foster mother, Regina,…

Climb the Stairway with Visionary Fiction – guest post by William Moore

Climb the Stairway with Visionary Fiction – guest post by William Moore

Visionary Fiction gives us a stairway upon which we can climb and express what we know deep within. When we look at great works of art, it is as if they are reflections of higher worlds, higher dimensions. Artists paint upon a canvas, writers write upon a page, but at the top of the stairway we…

Visionary Fiction’s  Role as Catalyst in the Evolving Human Mythos – guest post by Gerald R. Stanek
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Visionary Fiction’s Role as Catalyst in the Evolving Human Mythos – guest post by Gerald R. Stanek

I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that those of us writing Visionary Fiction have had some sort of vision, be it a lucid dream, an unexpectedly successful meditation, a trip brought on by a substance outside the normal diet, or even a near-death experience. It may have lasted several hours, possibly…

Visionary Fiction and the Science of Consciousness, Part 3

Visionary Fiction and the Science of Consciousness, Part 3

Applied Parapsychology: Synchronicity and Super Synchronicity To read or revisit Part One of this series, click HERE. For Part Two, Click HERE. Parapsychology in its various aspects is an enormous field of study and practice both for evolving humans trekking through the maze of physical/mental/spiritual existence and for visionary authors narrating that tortuous saga, aptly…

Visionary Fiction and the Science of Consciousness , Part 2

Visionary Fiction and the Science of Consciousness , Part 2

Undercover Agents of Consciousness To read or revisit Part One of this series, click HERE. Like researchers venturing beyond the known and allowed boundaries of sanctioned science, visionary authors often strike radioactive material that incites incredulity, hostility, and worse. For these, in the words of Carl Jung, “The experience that furnishes the material for artistic…