The ideas I've adopted for The Delusion Wing have evolved from earlier writing. There was a piece I wrote about the indoctrination of a man in a cell facing hallucinations to force him to believe in God, first the hallucination is of a death god frightening him into belief, then I replaced that with the image of a preacher forcing holy judgement upon him, which I found to be more appropriate. My first draft of The Delusion Wing developed on the death-god to act as the main character's alternative conscience, an alter-ego that manifests in his delusions. The 'preacher' on the other hand developed into a separate piece of writing, where 'The Evangelist' was born, but instead of being a vision, he was a real person, with the ability to control man through speech alone and the world around him kind of formed. So the story, conveniently called 'The Evangelist', took the perspective of a man who worked for The Evangelist reflecting on the horrors of his society and saw fit to kill him for his crimes. It is also where the initial ideas of the fictional religion began.
You're welcome to read 'The Evangelist' here. It's very short.
It's interesting to see how the story has basically grown from those two characters and that one setting. But, when you start writing a character, then they take on a world of their own, as people are affected by their surrounds and also have their own powers and responsibility. A corrupt man with great power can affect society as a whole, hence so much was able to grow from The Evangelist. All the ideas really source from one short story and one that's probably not any good anyway.
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