Hello people of earth! I hope my translator is working properly. Nuke, who is also from your planet, has told me many stories about your world. I hope to be able to see it one day. Through an interstellar gate accident, he was thrown thousands of lightyears from his solar system into ours. My planet, named Myeem, is composed entirely of water except for one small island on which Nuke landed and where our people found him and took him to our abode below the water’s surface. We actually like being under water much better than being on the surface.
I had never met anyone like Nuke
before. He had body hair! Something that is considered somewhat gross on our
planet. Plus, he wasn’t blue! Truly a peculiar-looking creature from our
perspective. Yet, there was something about him that I found intriguing. It was
hard to get to know him, though, because he and I did not speak the same
language.
Luckily, we had a translator that,
after a while, was able to put his speech into my language and mine into his.
It seemed in a matter of minutes after that time, we were talking and laughing
with each other. Somehow, the barrier between us melted and we became friends
almost instantaneously.
That is what I want to talk with
you about today. I think we all too often assume others are different from us because
they don’t look like us or don’t talk like us. At least, that is how we
Myeemians are. I’m pretty sure those on Earth are similar. Once we are able to
communicate with others, we then find things we have in common and before you
know it, we have established a friendship. My experience with Nuke taught me
that we all are usually more alike on the inside than our outward differences
would suggest. My relationship with him grew over time, but because I had that
initial communication with him, I was able to gradually get to know him better.
I learned that his real name was Yohannan Chaiken, yet his friends had given
him his nickname, Nuke, because his skin had an unusual electrical conductance.
The more I learned about him, though, the more I began to realize he was the
prophet to lead us back to our deity, Erabon, and the way he was made, while
being much different from us Myeemians, made him have the abilities to fulfill
the prophecies left to us about the coming forerunning to prepare us for the
return of Erabon.
My meeting with Nuke helped prepare
me for meeting the other clans who lived on other planets within our solar
system. While our ancestors of each clan once lived on the same planet with
each other millennia ago, I had not seen any of our other clansmen my whole
life—not until I visited these other planets with Nuke. While we had the same
language originally, each clan developed its own dialect and so I was not able
to understand them immediately when I met them. Yet, my experience with Nuke
allowed me to be patient knowing that once my translator allowed me to understand
their dialect, I knew I would likely be able to make friends with them. So,
even though they initially did not trust me because I looked different from
them, I was able to stay calm knowing that I was sure I could find common
ground once we could communicate and understand each other’s dialect, culture,
and values.
Therefore, language is a key component
to any society. It is used not only to communicate, but to provide information,
impart knowledge, and elicit feelings. Entire worlds can be created using
language. Therefore, if you are a budding author, I hope you learn your craft
well so you can even create worlds no one has ever experience before. Nuke and
I learned that good communication was key to our success and fulfill the charge
Erabon had left for us to accomplish.
So, my advice to all of you is to
study all the proper ways of writing and proper writing techniques. Try to
avoid all the pitfalls writing experts warn you about. Nuke and I saw first-hand
the problems of not communicating well. I can’t tell you the number of times he
used earth metaphors that confused not only myself but my fellow clansmen. Yet,
remember that the most important thing about your writing is you. If you get
lost in your own writing, then your writing is lost. Nuke had to learn how to
communicate with us, but he could not lose himself and his own values in the
process. Your writing will be different from that of anyone else, and it should
be different—unique to you. It should also be as good technically as you can
make it and not lose the essence of you in the process. Even more importantly,
you need to be purposeful. Your writing is to engage your reader, so be
purposeful in your writing. Ask yourself questions about your writing. Why did
I use that word? Why did I use that punctuation at that spot in the sentence?
You don’t have to follow traditional methodology, but there is a caveat to that
statement. You need to know that you did not follow traditional methodology and
that you purposefully chose not to follow traditional writing techniques. Every
sentence, every word, every punctuation should be purposeful—chosen by you as
the author for a specific purpose, to elicit a specific emotion, feeling, or
ambience.
Study. Learn. Write. Enjoy the
process. But most of all, be purposeful. Your readers will thank you for it.
Take care Earthlings! I hope my
communication to you was helpful and clear. If not, we’ll chalk it up to a faulty
translator. After all, sometimes it takes a while for it to function at peak
efficiency. I wish you well and greetings from my fellow Myeemians.
Title: ERABON PROPHECY TRILOGY
Author: Randy C. Dockens
Publisher: Carpenter’s Son Publishing
Genre: Christian Science Fiction
BOOK BLURB:
An exciting trilogy where an astronaut, nicknamed Nuke and working on an interstellar gate, is accidentally thrown so deep into the universe there is no way for him to get home. He does, however, find life on a nearby planet, one in which the citizens look very different from him.
Although tense at first, he finds these aliens think he is the forerunner to the return of their deity and has been charged with reuniting the clans living on six different planets. What is stranger to him still is that while everything seems so foreign from anything he has ever experienced, there is an element that also feels extremely familiar.
He has to gain the trust from each alien clan and demonstrate through various acts that he is the one they have been waiting for so each culture can fully accept him and follow him. But for the aliens to accept him as the prophet to their deity, Erabon, he has to first accept it and believe it himself.
Book Information
Release Dates: Book One: Myeem: 23-Dec-2020
Book Two: Sharab: 06-Apr-2021
Book Three: Qerach: 01-Oct-2021
Publisher: Carpenter’s Son Publishing
Number of pages: Myeem/271; Sharab/249; Qerach/347
Link to books on Amazon:
Book One: Myeem: Amazon.com: Myeem: Book One of the Erabon Prophecy Trilogy (Erabon Prophecy Trilogy, 1): 9781952025129: Randy C Dockens: Books
Book Two: Sharab: Sharab: Book Two of the Erabon Prophecy Trilogy (Erabon Prophecy Trilogy, 2): Dockens, Randy C: 9781952025136: Amazon.com: Books
Book Three: Qerach: Qerach: Book Three of the Erabon Prophecy Trilogy (Erabon Prophecy Trilogy, 3): Dockens, Randy C: 9781952025143: Amazon.com: Books
After completing his bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Auburn University he went on to graduate school at Auburn and completed his first doctorate degree in Pharmaceutics. He began his scientific career as a pharmacokinetic reviewer for the Food and Drug Administration and later joined a leading pharmaceutical company as a pharmacokineticist, which is a scientist who analyzes how the human body affects drugs after they have been administered (i.e, absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and excreted).
Through the years, he has worked on potential medicines within several disease areas, including cardiovascular, fibrosis, and immunoscience to seek and develop new and novel medicines in these therapy areas.
He has also had his attention on the academic study of the Bible. He earned a second doctorate in Biblical Prophecy from Louisiana Baptist University after receiving a master’s degree in Jewish Studies from the Internet Bible Institute under the tutelage of Dr. Robert Congdon.
Randy has recently retired from his pharmaceutical career and is spending even more time on his writing efforts. He has written several books that span dystopian, end-time prophecy, science fiction, and uniquely told Bible stories. All of his books, while fun to read, are futuristic, filled with science to give them an authentic feel, have a science fiction feel to them, and allow one to learn some aspect of Biblical truth one may not have thought about before. This is all done in a fast-paced action format that is both entertaining and provides a fun read to his readers.
Randy’s latest books are in the Christian science fiction series, ERABON PROPHECY TRILOGY.
You can visit his website at www.RandyDockens.com or connect with him on Twitter, Facebook and Goodreads.