My week in the Foix area featuring visits to Tarascon, Ussat, Miglos, Montreal de Sos, Foix, St. Bertrand-des-Comminges, Lourdes, Prehistoric Art Park, and the Caves of the Lombrives.
Go confidently (consciously) in the direction of your dream!
To go confidently, as Thoreau enjoined, is to go consciously.
We all dream, day and night, but most dreams evaporate before they are remembered. The casual dreamer’s dream is illusion. The causal dreamer’s dream is imagination. The visionary author is a dream catcher, a professional (intentional) dreamer with wits enough about him or her to bear witness and record the dream, thus making it conscious: a blueprint for reality.
Live the life you have imagined.
What is Visionary Literature?
This site is not just about one man’s work. It is about the genre, Visionary Literature, most suited for the times in which we live. Enter a gathering place where visionary writers and readers work on their dreams in community. Read more
Observe a novel in the making
Of his first novel, Vic said: I too quickly discovered that the story had a mind of its own, and it made demands on the character and ability of the author. Join him “on the road” as he tracks down his next novel, The Perfect. Read more
Truth stranger than fiction
Coincidence or co-incidence? That some extraordinary sense was in play was obvious: precognition, déjà vu, past life recall? Read about an uncanny event the author experienced in Istanbul while researching The Anathemas. An instance of the paranormal becoming the new normal? Read more
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Pamiers, Seat of the Inquisition, Monday 8/16/10
My primary destination for the day was the city of Pamiers, 13 miles north of Foix, mere minutes on the excellent E9 expressway, which ran right outside the hotel. Not a notoriously ancient or historic location as European cities go, I went to Pamiers, now quite the industrial town, in search of a very particular individual, Bishop Jacques Fournier, in the very narrow period from 1317 to 1325. Read more
Montsegur, Sunday, August 15, 2010
In the Middle Ages the Montsegur region was ruled by the Counts of Toulouse and the Viscounts of Carcassonne, noble houses sympathetic to the Cathar cause. Arguably the best known of Cathar castles, the Château de Montségur served as safe house, monastery, and finally military stronghold for the Cathar faithful and their defenders in the brutal last years of the Albigensian Crusade.
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New Site Launch
On October 4, 2011, the fully revamped VictorESmith.com was launched. The revised site becomes more than a home for the novel, The Anathemas. One new section features the writer’s current works in progress and another Visionary Literature as a genre. The launch version is nifty (thanks to the design work of the very competent staff of I-Tul.com), but there is more to come: more pages, photos, and video. Watch this column for announcements. The intent is to have this be a dynamic site with blog entries and new material added regularly. Visit often. Join the conversations.
Now an Ebook
The Anathemas is now available as a Kindle eBook on Amazon.com. CLICK HERE to download your copy for only $8.95
Europe Research Tour #2
From Oct. 4 to Oct. 20, Vic Smith went on his European tour, Part 2, continuing his research for his next novel, The Perfect. In the first leg, done in August 2010, Vic visited the Cathar-Templar country in southern France and northern Spain. This time he travelled to Germany with forays into western Austria and Switzerland. It’s rumored he had his Indiana Jones hat on. For details go to his Travel Blog.