Oedipus on a Pale Horse (Now Available Online)
by David Sheppard

When David Sheppard was twenty years old, he was considering a literary life, kicked off by an extensive trip to Greece, when a potentially deadly encounter with his father derailed it and set him on a different course that resulted in a career in aerospace working Space Shuttle projects and NASA missions to the outer planets. Now thirty-two years later, he fulfills that life-long dream by traveling for two and one-half months alone in Greece. He has come prepared with a thorough knowledge of ancient myth, and an intimate knowledge of the archaeological landscape.

This book is intended to provide the beginning novelist, or perhaps even the experienced novelist who has lost his way, with a discussion of the underlying structure and methods of novel writing. The completion of the first nine chapters should provide the author with a rough draft for his novel. The ideas developed in this book concern basic storytelling and could just as easily apply to narrative non-fiction, theatre and screenwriting. (Previously titled Jungian Novel Writing)