{"id":7685,"date":"2016-05-27T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-12T16:16:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T20:16:19","slug":"a-books-genesis-in-beginning-there-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/a-books-genesis-in-beginning-there-was\/","title":{"rendered":"A Book’s Genesis – In the Beginning There Was An Idea … : Subsapien Biomech"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nI’m participating in Daniela Ark’s A Book’s Genesis Link-Up again for the next segment which is about how the inspiration for the book came about. I’m continuing to talk about Subsapien Biomech<\/i>. I’ve begun editing it this month, so this darlin’ is on my mind. You can check out the first part of this link-up here<\/a>, and if you’d like to participate in Daniela’s link-up you can here<\/a>. For those of you who don’t know my Subsapien<\/i> series is science-fiction and about kids with animal or robotic abilities. See more in the first post about it. <\/span><\/div>\n


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\nSubsapien<\/i> is a funny series, because I thought of it in two parts. Originally it was two separate series, but then I decided to combine them. I came up with the grafting half of the story from a dream about some thugs chasing kids through a grocery store. After I woke up, I wondered why these kids were being chased then I looked at my biology book and thought up that these kids had animal abilities. Thus that half was born. For the robotic half, I was inspired by Iron Man and decided to make kids who had robotic abilities. Eventually after lots of edits these two ideas coalesced into Subsapien<\/i>.<\/span><\/div>\n


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\nI knew about my character Matt (Bryce’s brother) long before Bryce. Bryce actually didn’t come to me until years after I thought up the idea for the story. As a young teen, all of a sudden he appeared to me while I was helping my parents clean our pool. It dawned on me that Matt had an older brother, then over time he developed into the amazing character he is now. <\/span><\/div>\n
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\nCaleb was originally named Aidan, but I didn’t feel like the named fitted it him after a while. I just came up with him as a protagonist for his story. In this old story which was before graftings were added in, he was a kid in modern times that got into a car accident with his mom, then he was turned into a biomech. He didn’t have amnesia originally and more of his body was robotic than it is now. He’s changed a good deal and he’s benefited from it.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nJudah was originally way more brutal with the Aiden version of Caleb from his old story. Now he’s much more suave. I just created him to be the antagonist and went from there. <\/span><\/div>\n
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\nPro’s always been closely linked to Caleb, though her original name was Megan.  I prefer Pro much more. She was created to be the love interest. Her personality was much less … intense originally, but she’d always had mechanical parts like she does now. However, like Caleb she had a higher percentage of her body be mechanical. <\/span><\/div>\n
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\nCynara is the youngest out of these characters in real time. I came up with her only last year. She just popped in and introduced herself in the story out of nowhere in the middle of writing it. I didn’t intend for her to be in the story at all, but I’m glad she’s here now.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nAble started as a random human who didn’t give away Matt and his friends’ position in the story, but slowly he evolved into a very important character to the story. I can’t image the books without him now.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nThe story had a very different plot originally. It changed so many times until one night while talking out the story with a friend I realized that plot is essentially about Bryce’s love for his younger brother Matt. The plot and overall story is also heavily influenced by the fact that I’m Pro-Life. In the society these characters live in, human life isn’t sacred anymore, and that weaves into the plot.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nOriginally the books were set in modern day, but then out of the blue when I was bored at someone’s house, I thought up the network of Domes that are now called the Dome Web aka the setting for Subsapien<\/i>. The futuristic setting allows for much more fun technology too.<\/span><\/div>\n


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\nWhat books have inspired Subsapien?<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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\nThe Hunger Games<\/i> was a big influence. It made me make this book a dystopian and also enlightened me about the realities of mental trauma. Maximum Ride<\/i> by James Patterson was also an influence. I discovered that book after I thought up Subsapien and tried to make mine different from theirs, then after quitting the series because it went downhill, I started writing Subsapien hoping to make a better animal DNA kids series. XD Also the Maze Runner<\/i> by James Dashner was a large influence as well. It got some of my scientist diabolicalness from there. \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nI got a lot of influence from Marvel, particularly X-Men. I love superpowers and varied superpowers and X-Men helped inspire that love. <\/span><\/div>\n


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\nThis song reminds me so much of Judah and Bryce’s relationship. The whole song sounds like Bryce singing it.<\/span><\/div>\n
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