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Kalar's journey to freedom from his past in his attempt to save the multiverse from peril. |
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Kalar is your average guy living on an Earth-like planet in an advanced future. After centuries of wars, colonization, genetic manipulation, and struggles for power, the Seventh Age, a time of peace and harmony, has arrived. The diverse beings of this planet have learned to live together and provide for each other, but they are not without problems. The Akina Balaa, a small group of power-hungry individuals who reject the mutuality of the planet's societies and want to hold all the power themselves, seeks the most powerful talisman ever created, the very one which caused the end of the previous Age. Kalar is thrown face-first into stopping them while also working to come to terms with the guilt over a dark and grave mistake in his past. Hilarity ensues? I dunno, I'm still working on this whole thing. I'll get back to ya. You can read the first seven chapters in my portfolio, and I update my blog every week. |
| Wow, look at that; it's been four weeks since I last updated. How embarrassing! I can't say I've been busy, or that I've been secretly working on 35,000 chapters, and I just haven't updated yet. I'm in a bit of a slump, but I'm sure it will pass. I mean, the only deadline I've got is death, and that's probably decades away. Probably. Speaking of which, this is my last entry. My upgraded membership will be running out soon, and I have to delete my blog. This membership was a gift from an anonymous stranger, and while I have enjoyed it very much, all things must come to an end. Thank you, whoever you are. And to the rest of you, be well. |
| I feel the need to bring to your attention a silent epidemic that is plaguing the modern world. It's a well-known fact that the music industry has been inserting subliminal messaging into music since the late 1950's. While occasionally these messages have far reaching goals, such as brainwashing people into joining the armed forces or getting a generation of movers and thinkers to squander their potential by initiating a drug habit through the use of binaural beats to mimic mind altering substances, most of these messages simply force the public to buy more and consume more. The target audience of today's popular radio is 13-25 year olds, 25 being the age that the brain's neural pathways become immutably set. By ingraining these subliminal messages in its audience, the music industry secures a generation of music consumers. This situation in itself is a problem, but what can anyone do? One can't deafen one's self with, for example, golf pencils, just think of the very good reasons not to that I am currently unable to propose at the moment as I am listening to Poker Face. The situation of which I wish to advise you, the audience, is the effect of such programming on the very young. Children, whose brains are as mutable and squishy as play-doh left on the radiator, are highly sensitive to this programming, and may experience overwhelming feelings of love, grief, and longing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTCm8tdHkfI&feature=related Many of you are probably already familiar with this case study, but hopefully, framed in this context, one might see the true forces at work in which the feelings of three-year-old girl are just more casualties and prevent it from happening in the future. P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face. (Mum mum mum mah.) |
| So I finished a new chapter, but I need to proofread. I like to write in a notebook as well as on my computer, and sometimes the excerpts don't get spliced. Chapter 8 will probably be 18+ because Unanda's crazy. |
| So I haven't posted in a while, but that's because it's been slow going. Kalar and Unanda are in a new city. I'm introducing a new character, and I'm looking for some good quotes to use. I figure, hey quotes from Jesus(es) taken shamelessly out of context will be good for a larf. So I'm skimming through the new American standard bible, Matthew and Mark mostly because they were written less than 50 years after the death of Jesus(es), and I realized something. Somehow I had come to believe that Jesus was(were) a loving, hippie sort of fellow(s), but every other word out of that/those man/men's mouth(s) is "hypocrisy" this and "thrown in the fire" that. Sounds a little like a flamer on a message board. True, sometimes it's "and he was moved with compassion" but most of the time it's anger. Frankly, it did not seem very compassionate or enlightened, but then again, what do I know? Was I there? No. So I figure, Buddha quotes, or a mixture of the two oughtta do it. I'd love to draw in some Bhagavad gita, but it doesn't have three million versions available online like the bible does. :/ |
| So, I'm working on a dialog between Unanda and her friend and I needed some new slang profanity kind of words. This is what I came up with Beast- for kissing and such backwards- stupid stuff trash- terrible things- you see, there's no such thing as trash; everything is useful to someone else somehow. The fact that something should be put somewhere else because no one can use it is taboo and profane Spirits- because calling on the names of something that should not be taken lightly shows how serious you are Nikyry- same as above. Probably shouldn't use that around Unanda too much... Also, when everyone has video phones, face will be the verb we use instead of call. |
| I guess I'll go work on the book now. In the meantime, ask me about my characters or ask my characters a question! |
| So, the quote about a writer becomes an author after he or she has written 1,000,000 words hit me today. A million words is a lot. I have 48 pages written so far, and 32,006 words total. That puts 666.719 words per page. It'll take me 1499 pages to hit the million words goal. That is either an enormous book, or a series. That means I need a larger overarching plot. I'll be revamping everything that I've written so far after I nail down all the loose edges, and that irks me a little. I've got a pretty good idea of what's going to happen, but I need to put in time travel if I'm going to have that, a peppering of Chekhov's guns etc. In the meantime, please let me know what you're thinking about the characters. I'm thinking I want each of the new books to be from a different perspective. Right now, I'm looking at Unanda, Laur, Fuybek, J'mokoh, Jhaqoh, and Mahrnog, but what about Akyiko, Kamosa, Rynaugh, Bodhi, Sumili, Shkerqi, Ashtas, or the rest of the Akina Balaa? You, the audience, don't really know some of these people very well, but a book from any of their perspectives would be interesting, well as interesting as Kalar's. Oh, Laur might be the Dreambreaker. |
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