art from paradise lost

Blurb Poster

My wife seriously blew my mind when I asked her for a teaser/review blurb about the book.

I just had to share it on the poster I was making.

12/21/13

happy first day of winter. 52,000 words finished on ye olde booke.

so,

got up earlier than the birds, took the deck today and a memstick to the coffeeshop and only got 2000 pounded out. eh. i got 5000 the night before at steak n shake. add wifi and my productivity goes into the toilet.

if there was only a way to have a great coffeeshop and me NOT being able to access the internet... that would be wonderful. i guess i could make a password on the deck and have my wife set it so i wouldn't know it lol.

it's good though because i've moved/transitioned well into the next major part of the book. this has only happened once before and we were also setting up the character so this time, when it happens, it is like butter on a bald monkey: pretty smooth.

ok! test writing time!

"the sunlit backdrop exploded over the mountains like a whores kiss on a hurried sailor."

a little something i cooked up upon reflection that i have not written enough scenic background into my book. still working on it. i don't think whores and sunshine go well together normally, except maybe, in this one sentence.

have a good Christ-mass.

talk at ya soon.

12/19/13

hit the 50,000 word mark... and beyond! :) 50,073 to be precise.

thank you all the wonderful people at steak n shake for making late night writing a dream come true with cheese fries!

Book Reading

11/21/13

after a wonderful money making fourteen and a half hour day - i here sit; ready to....write? sleep. dang. the good news is, i only work four hours tomorrow so i can devote some time to making a dent in the middle.

so... i'm reading michael crichtons book: timeline and was wondering why i like him so much. i dunno.

i think that his style is often, as i am reading, disjointed and random... but he does things on purpose. why? i think because he wants to establish certain facts about his characters. like: say for instance, that he wants to show that they have compassion. he will have someone killed and zoom in on the characters tears falling off of their cheek instead of coming out and telling us that they are a compassionate soul. brilliant! show me don't tell me!

so, yeah. it works... i've just never known why before.

i also enjoy neal town stephenson and his insanity. he will not only tell me how the character is, on the inside, he will build up elaborate stories-within-stories to show just how far the character feels this way or that way... and will teach me science at the same time.

this is probably the same reason that i enjoy arthur conan doyle.

hmmm. it seems i did a bit of writing after all?

nah. this doesn't count.

off to bed!

11/18/13

making some quotes for a fake book by a pen name of myslef to put at the chapter headings for the book..

pretty interesting. i needed to say some things that my protagonist couldn't say, and, as i am writing this first person, from his perspective: this is what i went with.

here is one of maybe thirty:

"It is the morrow to weep, to mourn: for the unknown that crashes down upon us. Today is for the sacrifices that come, one to each man. It is the reflection of yesterday that brings us hope and charity in our everyday steps forward from there."

-Ratuna Fonsaire, “The value of sacrifice”

(but not really)