Yes, I *FINALLY* got more of Witchfire’s story written. Like last week, it’s a little less than I wanted, but I have a deadline to meet with DBC, and I’m also out of gas physically and creatively.
This week we did get a little smut as Ms. Americana gets in a catfight with her doppelganger from Sully’s (Comixfana’s) Earth. Special guest appearance by Deanna Troi’s character Nancy Peye as we advance the plot and try to coordinate stories a little more.
I talked to the friend that first linked me to the Vader fan film that I shared a few blog posts ago. I was curious to find out if there were any other chapters released yet, and what news he’d heard in that regard (he has a remarkable knack for finding such things out).
At this point, there won’t be any future chapters. Disney went after the producer with everything they had and even took the first chapter away from him. LucasArts (presumably Lucas himself) apparently still has some pull though, and get the first chapter returned to the producer. Not before Disney’s legal bullying wiped out the producer financially though. They’re also blocking all attempts to crowdfund future chapters of the story.
I hear stories like this all the time. I’ve watched them gobble up more and more of the entertainment world too the last decade or so. Walt Disney would doubtless spin in his grave if he saw how his company is being run nowadays.
I really, really hate to do this, but I’ve got roughly 80 blogs on follow now. A wide array of subjects too. I value all of you, BUT I’m spending over 2 hours a day just trying to keep up with a constant parade of email updates and new posts. A few of you are posting almost 15 times a day also.
So, I have to find some balance here and regain a little of my time back. My boundary is going to be that I’ll read and like / comment on the first 3 or 4 posts a day from everyone. After that, I have to pass on any additional posts. I appreciate all of you, but I only have so much time.
Keep writing, creating poetry, or art, etc… I won’t discourage anyone from creating.
Why am I up at 2:45am?!? I should finally go to bed, but I’ve had ALOT on my mind lately. Most of more properly belongs in the spiritual blog also.
That’s actually part of what THIS post is about though. My posts here have been more personal blog and self growth than writing blog lately. Granted, I’ve been able to tie it into writing to a degree… I can’t help but wonder though if maybe THAT is where my true passion lays. It’s probably just all the crazy recent events, and my trying to put them in perspective that have me writing that way.
Be that as it may, I’m going to be trying yet again to get my proper writing going again, both erotica and mainstream fiction. I’m also going to try to keep this blog more focused on writing related topics.
Some of the rambling has been helpful though. Random side rant; I REALLY use the word “though” too much, LOL. Anyway, a few of the posts and some recent events have made me realize just what a trigger that people trying to deny others their voice is for me. I’ve been dealing with it my entire life with my family, and most of my jobs. It’s still happening to this day with my mom. My brother craps all over me, and I’m supposed to just forget it.
Anyway, I realized that’s an influencer for me with things like political and social issue connected hate. The level it’s hitting out there is insane. So many examples, but there’s been enough bitching in recent blog posts. I just want to grab people, and shake them until they get through their heads they’re making the problems worse by responding with hate and refusal to listen.
So yeah… Personal challenge while I regroup here, LOL
LOL. It’s been a crazy last 48 hours. The last 4 of which I just spent catching up on thee 114 email notifications I had from WordPress AND writing another spiritual blog post. More there in a minute.
The funeral went reasonably well. The priest was mush mouthed and didn’t seem to know the rituals. Maybe it’s a Catholic thing. I think everything has to be exactly by the book. Anyway, short but good ceremony there. A little bit of unspoken conflict back at my parents’ (well, mom’s now) house afterwards, but I’ll spare folks the personal drama.
Realizing how short life can be, along with the more positive experiences on twitter and here have made me more determined to get focused with my writing and a few other resolutions. Not fanatical midlife crisis level or anything, but it all snapped things back into focus.
The spiritual blog post and trigger warning joke above are about the need for people in general, and Empaths specifically to have reasonable boundaries, and how some people use false compassion and guilt tripping to tell others they have no right to said boundaries. It was inspired by post in a followed blog about how “walls don’t work”. The spiritual blog post should have made clear that I do NOT lump the author of that post in said guilt tripper category. They just genuinely don’t believe walls work. The post DID remind me of all the hateful things I’ve seen on the subject by other people though, and how many times I’ve been guilt tripped and manipulated for trying to have boundaries..
So, with that in mind, and wanting to discuss the idea that boundaries of any type are bad, I wrote that post. If you’re interested, take a look. If you’re the type that’s easily offended by anything other than far left views, consider this a trigger warning and avoid it.
The simple premise is that we all need boundaries and walls. People need occasional quiet time, writers need to be able to focus on their work, etc… Walls DO have to have gates to let the good in though, and the only truly evil wall is the one designed to keep people from exiting (ie the Berlin Wall).
Those of you following the blog got the email about my last post with details of my planned first serious novel. If you’re wondering where it went, my “Cassandra Sense” was SCREAMING “take it down”.
My intuition is VERY good at sensing bad events, and it rarely screams that loud, so I took it down to prevent possible plot theft. Suffice it to say I have a story about a young woman who finds out her mother is an Olympian and gets caught in the middle of an ancient prophecy and a plot by Hades to overthrow Zeus.
Other non-erotica fiction I have in mind is:
A story focused on the end of Lemuria
A story set in Ancient Egypt centered around a royal couple’s life. This is set in the far ancient past, before Egypt was even to the point of the Old Kingdom and it was united into upper and lower kingdoms. Lots of Paranormal stuff, and the main villain group will be rogue elements of the Temple of Thoth. I could probably break this into a trilogy if I tried…
An “autobiography” of Cassandra from Greek mythology.
The story of a French noble family’s master at arms who gets exiled after a favored daughter is killed as a result of her own recklessness. He goes on to find shelter with the Knights Templar, helping a handful of them escape with the Holy Grail from the infamous Friday the 13th massacre
Juggernaut stomped down the street, splintering the asphalt with each step of his massive feet. The giant sack of money from the bank robbery clenched in his fist. NYPD cars and officers were batted aside like children’s dolls as he plodded along. One brave, or perhaps foolhardy officer stood his ground in the middle of the street, emptying his service weapon at Juggernaut. The bullets only ricocheted off of the massive supervillain.
Juggernaut snarled and grabbed the officer by the shirt. “What are yah, stupid or something?” he growled. “Maybe I need ta make an example out of you fer the rest of these clowns!” So saying, he flung the officer with all his might, sending him flying off into the distance.
A moment later, the officer returned, carried in the arms of Power Girl. Supergirl’s buxom adult version from Earth 2 put the officer down, then turned and scowled at Juggernaut.
“That’s about enough out of you.” Power Girl snarled defiantly.
Juggernaut laughed mockingly. “Don’t you know who I am?” he challenged. “I’m the Juggernaut, bitch!!” Juggernaut charged at Power Girl in a full on run, his fist cocked back to strike.
Power Girl smirked as he charged. “Hi, Juggernaut Bitch.” She replied as she punched him in the face.
The force of the blow knocked him backwards through 15 buildings before his unconscious form came to a stop on a pier along the East River. Power Girl tossed the bag of stolen money she’d snatched away from Juggernaut as she hit him, to a nearby SWAT officer. “He went that way,” she said, pointing before flying off still smirking.
That one done in honor of Superhero Saturday on Twitter. It’s a scene I’ve been wanting to use ever since I saw X-Men 3, LOL.
My last post seemed to confuse people, so I’m going to try this in a little more straight forward way without as much parable to distract or confuse.
The point of that now deleted post was that I often wonder if we as authors let the extreme elements of society have too much influence over our voices as authors. The topic was inspired by a discussion with ComixFana over future plans for our respective stories. That’s all that was going on there, LOL.
I see stories like the Star Wars prequels that were so heavily laden with political commentary, or about a half a dozen TV shows I could name that try to force certain social beliefs down our throats… I wonder if that’s robbing the voice of authors that do want to write characters with more moderate views… That they worry they have to tailor their characters to certain expectations or their writing won’t be accepted. I know that’s certainly the case on Twitter.
My failed point to the original post was that if you want your character to have more mainstream beliefs, you should go for it. It’s OK to have a feminist that’s married with kids. It’s how she defines herself, not a piece of paper that makes her a feminist. If you want to keep her single and independent, or in something like a live in arrangement or common law marriage, that’s cool too. Just have your own reasons for your character’s actions and personality. Don’t let others take your voice.
I’m going to be hitting a few posts today it seems. I originally did all the topics as one long post. It felt rambling and disjointed, so 3 or 4 separate posts it is.
The common thread to all of them is that all of the recent events have me thinking about my direction as a writer. To get to the point of THIS post, part of the what I was pondering was…
Not quite, LOL. It was that despite all the drama there, Twitter did have some really good writing drills shared as games among the community there. Seems there’s a little of that going on in the blogs here as well.
The Twitter stuff was all some variation of “write something about this picture or subject”. Great for being concise and expressive, given the allowed lengths of tweets. I never really got into them during my couple of months though.
A) I wasn’t part of the cool kids club, and these things generally require a “tag in”.
B) I’m what they call a “turtle writer” on twitter. I can come up with a great story, but not on the fly usually.
That’s part of what these games are for though; to get you used to letting the creative energies flowing freely. If you don’t practice, you don’t improve. Since I also need content here for when I’m NOT posting an actual story OR news of my internationally acclaimed best sellers (some day, LOL), I think I’m going to make a best effort to do a VSS thing here.
For those NOT familiar with it, VSS is “Very Short Story”. I had to google it when I first saw it on twitter. If I recall, the definition was something under 400 words. I just tried Google again, and all it gave me for search results was Volume Shadow Backup Services for backing up hard drives. Yeah Google is great… NOT.
So, yeah… Rambling… AGAIN. No wonder I think I need exercises in creative conciseness, LOL. On twitter, the ideal SEEMS to be keep your VSS to one tweet. A real challenge. I’m not sure where my VSS posts’ lengths will fall, OR how often I’ll do them at first, BUT training is a good thing, and I legitimately want to grow as a writer. As I get better, I hope to have one a day up to keep in practice and draw people to the Blog.
Maybe those of you who do writing blogs also would be interested in getting in on this? IF we did it as a group drill / friendly competition, I’m thinking once a week, and say 200 words? That gives the Turtles and busy people time.
Wow, did the blog traffic drop off while I was gone, LOL. *Posts meme of Maximus asking if you were not entertained* 😀
Humor aside, I’m overjoyed at how fast the blog here has grown. I know there are writers out there with many times more readers, but getting to 60 subscribers and roughly 100 page views a day in so short a time is amazing. Thanks all.
So, yes… I was gone nearly 18 hours. We went up to say good bye to my step father. He’d been on his death bed for almost a week, after a really nasty fall. He died while we were en route. So, the rest of the day (evening) ended up being comforting my mom and some family drama that I’ll skip on here. Maybe the spiritual blog…
Now, I’m back, catching up on posts and trying to distract myself.
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