The Way of the Wolf

Some writers… anyone who likes to create things out thin air… who loves to make stuff up… often come in two shades. One likes to make things up and move on. The other dwells around big ideas. I’m the latter. That’s why I prefer Scotch too. Wine drinkers… just drink. Scotch drinkers think. And don’t get me started with beer drinkers. 😊  

That’s also why I started “Something from Nothing” thinking it would end up as a trinity. I thought it would even be better if I turned it into an eight-act play. Because at the time I could not see any other way of doing it. That was before the NoRM idea hit me. 

After the NoRM idea came about and made flesh in a matter of years, I could see my path. Not being a thinker’s thinker, I stood up and started to walk it. As the components of NoRM became clearer and clearer, I understood that “Something from Nothing” had to be a two-act play. Not only that, it had to be the finale of a much larger scheme. That’s how I came up with “The Way of the Wolf”. 

The series will have 6 books, each dedicated to a timeframe a la Asimov’s Foundation series. The first book in the series, “Past Tense”, is all about antiquity. I will use three famous philosophers as starting points and make up stories that merged all of them together.  

In that regard, the beginning of the book is about Socrates and his friends including Plato. The middle is all about Parmenides, my favorite Greek philosopher… because he was a troublemaker so much more than Socrates or Plato. The end is about a combination of greats, Meister Eckhart, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer. 

Then, we will move forward to Middle Ages, starting with Turks, because I am a Turk. Well, 50–50 really, but it’s a dominant genome. 😊  

The second book, “Roots”, begins by describing what Turkish mentality is. It’s unique in so many ways that it serves very well when your book desperately needs a hero. In the middle the other half… dark half… is revealed to add depth to the story. Here the Circassian influence and how this influence mutates a prototypical hero into something else. Also, we will see how Islam and Christianity are opposites that attract each other… and where Judaism lies within this context. Heroes and villains, this is the book that makes the other book easily readable. 

Are we having fun yet! The third book is about the last two centuries of the human experience. It begins with a warrior culture mutating into that of master strategists. In a manner of speaking the resulting culture goes by the motto, “Best warrior is the one who wins without a fight”. In the middle we will see all kinds of conflicts tearing up that culture. A new way is being born. Finally, we will see how heroes become villains and how villains become heroes. 

This is my favorite book of the series, although I like all of my children. 😊 

In this one, we begin with the burden of what has come before us… what we have lost and what we have gained by self-inflicted-mutations. As you keep reading, you will see how one can liberate himself even if his case is hopeless… how one can find meaning after faking it for so long. It gives us hope. No matter how deep we are in the labyrinth, one of us can find the way out. 

Wow! It was a wild ride. Now, we are in familiar territory. You already have the first act of “Something from Nothing” which being revised as we speak by the way. 😊 

There will be another act which will finish the saga. It will about the struggle between the alternate reality platform and Notion of Reality Management Institute. The showdown where “Kan” meets his match, “Kim”. and all Hell breaks loose. It’s fun! 

Afterwards, I will go back and start with one of the 4 prequels. While I’m not %100 sure, the one I will pick first may very well be… “Evolution”. So, here’s a summary for you.

How do you like it so far? Are you ready to become a master of “The Way of the Wolf?” 

We will each other soon. Until then, create chaos and have fun, my friends. “Create Chaos Have Fun”. 😊