I started writing Free Will Flux shortly after September 11, 2001 when I realized I could no longer continue working on the manuscript I had been working on at the time and still do it justice any longer. You see my screenplay-in-progress at the time, The Middle of Nowhere, has a backstory involving a ground war on US soil. It is only meant to be a backstory, but in light of 9/11 I saw right away it would be a long time before the general public was ready to swallow that kind of scenario lightly. As we now see, I was right about this.

Since I had committed myself to seeing through whatever project I completed next to the light of day (read: the general marketplace and, more specifically, your eyes), I think it's a good thing I waited. Of course, I had no idea it would take me almost 10 years to see my next project to completion anyway, but more on that in a moment.

So the world was in crisis and I was without a writing project. Like most everyone after 9/11, it took me a while to care about anything like a writing project til the initial, and then the secondary (and so on) shock wore off. But eventually it came--the time when I had to write something, but what.

The world, as I saw it, was in spiritual crisis. I thought I'd start there (as good a place as any). Things were no longer just changing. They had changed. The world was forever changed. It was no longer a "going to happen", it was happening. It had happened, before our eyes. There was no turning back. This reminded me of a concept I had come up with for some friends who were toying with the idea of starting a video game company.

I came up with a concept based on a setting--our world, this world, but changed. Forever, no going back style. In my spiritual explorations I often came across some version of the concept "You Create Your Own Reality". And it got me to thinking, what would that look like under a microscope? It would obviously involve the laws of physics--space, time, and matter at their most basic levels.

So I had my concept. I had a setting--the world as we know it changing before our eyes at a spiraling rate into something we no longer recognize as our own. And we, changing the same. The only things lacking now were characters and a story. (Oh, is that all?)

Creating Joe was easy, perceiving a great change through the eyes of an amnesiac who doesn't even know how things used to be. And Isaac Pressman, the hawkish eyes of the media observing it all from a great height, seemed a logical second. All I needed next was an average everyday person-like-you-or-me whose world I could demolish. Voila', the sculptress Savannah. And we had our cast. Now all I had to do was toss them into this reality and see what happened.

What transpired took 9 years of my own spiritual evolution to unfold. And if you ask me, it was time well spent.

How would life change if that process by which we are allegedly already influencing those universal "constants" were magnified to the point where we couldn't possibly ignore it (or most of us, at least)? What would it look like and what would it mean?

[The Middle of Nowhere, incidentally--about the strange connection of four disparate strangers on opposite sides of a "civil" war over a dead patch of land--is still an iron in the fire, one I also hope someday to smelt into gold (or more like the silver screen). But first things first...]

Free Will Flux asks the reader what you would do if the world suddenly started falling apart around you to where nothing you once recognized was familiar, nothing you once knew was true, and everything you once counted on, you could no longer. Further, it asks, what if you had more to do with all these great changes than you ever could have imagined. Not in your wildest dreams...or darkest nightmares.

It is my greatest hope that this book inspires and empowers readers to make the world in their own image--consciously and conscientiously.