Introduction To Skalkaho

Like all adventures, there is the unknown which makes the journey a convulsive addiction to creativity. This project is a culmination of my own recovery from an Anoxic brain injury suffered during June 1, 2011. The recovery regimen suggested writing as a developing mental recovery. It sounded impossible at the time since I couldn't remember how to use a keyboard let alone write a complete sentence. It was a terrifying consideration for even trying at the time. A brief background to the Anoxic brain injury episode before writing this manuscript.

On June 1, 2011, I suffered a massive heart attack at work and was soon after pronounced dead at the hospital, but a miracle was unfolding in front of the attending emergency doctors. As my body was assuming room temperature of about 80 degrees Fahrenheit my heart started when my wife touched me. It couldn't happen, but the record illustrates the miracle in a report by professional doctors and nurses. The returning heartbeat washed the blue color from my face and body temperature returned to normal. as it was determined by my family I would recover as a mental "Vegetable" suffering from Anoxic Brain Injury. I was "dead for about fifteen minutes. The definition states the following information:


Anoxic brain damage is an injury to the brain due to a lack of oxygen. Hypoxia is the term to describe low oxygen. Brain cells without enough oxygen will begin to die after about 4 minutes.


Recovery was miraculous and writing was a key therapy for that recovery.


After blogging for about six years with over 1,200 featured blogs, I want to take anyone on a journey who reads this blog as a book written for enjoyment. You will be looking over my shoulder during the process. It is an experimental process not known to have a precedent in the Blogosphere. The watching of a book written will include some editing as the story unfolds and changes are needed to stitch the story together as ideas develop. You will be the fly on the wall during this lengthy process but it will have an end around page 300 or so. It will have at least 20 chapters but may go beyond that as ideas expand as needed.


One completed Chapter at a time will be published as it becomes ready for observational reading and your casual scrutiny.


The title was picked because of a very special place in Montana, I loved to travel through the outside of Hamilton, Montana. It's a wondrous part of Montana with many personal stories visiting the falls, creeks, and mountains of Highway 38. The dirt highway through the Mountains follows Daly creek towards the Sapphire mines and passes by Falls creek forming the Skalkaho Falls.


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Quote citing about Skalkaho Falls: "This is a novel falls that is highly accessible. You will be driving this Podunk road in July far up into the sapphire mountains when suddenly you round a corner and presto, a tantalizing behemoth of a waterfall stretches out before you. Also to note would be the swarming crowds of people that seem to appear and disappear ...


The main character of this book is named Benjamin Skalkaho for the spirit of what the backcountry offers near my home place in Montana.


Writing an unfolding story for readers is hopefully an adventure as it uses historical fact for backgrounding the main character, and uses events well known to American history. I won't even know what happens next until it is written. Expect some problems in writing even after edits are done by the author who is not a competent editor as a publisher would be. Just enjoy the unfolding story as it is written as each chapter is posted.


Share this introduction with your friends who may be interested in following this project. If one chapter a week is posted then I am a writing machine.



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