🌞🌞 Preview ---- My first novel release "Confessions of the Damaged 1.1" ---- drops March 15 🌛🌛🌛
For the past 3 years, I've had this novel half written, and I realized a few weeks ago that the reason it's been so hard to write is that it's too many ideas and too much jumping between settings to really organize as a full novel...so I've cut it into 5-6 mini novellas/zines that I'll call it mini-books
The first mini-book is finished and contains 30 pages but it's rich! I feel so incredibly proud of the stories that have been channeled through me.
The story is about a man on the streets of somewhere or other, letting his mind wander to different places and times, through many perspectives, and even different states of being. Is he a modern-day city shaman or one of those crazies your parents tell you to stay away from?
It digs deep into dark thoughts and shows a raw healing process
I just put the finishing touches on editing. Next week I will set up everything for self-publication on digital formats and physical release.
I've asked @vincentnijman or @littlehyper-nm to take care of the cover art. I like what he has shown me so far!
I'm still not sure if it will be 5 mini books or more but it'll be at least 5. This is a rough schedule for release...
1st mini book: March 15
2nd mini book: Spring
3rd mini book: Summer
4th mini book: Fall
5th mini book: Winter
I'm excited. This story is years in the making. Parts of it have been released already and will appear in the second and third mini-book, but the first mini-book is almost all new material. So far I've only shown 3 or 4 friends, and I think it is my best work to date.
Here is a tiny preview from Chapter 5:
Theta waves
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Present in many places at once, his conscious awareness was dispersed between them.
Clouds sprinkled the sky and he felt his fingers moving through them. They were just a bit damper than the air he passed through. He felt nothing strange about this situation, flying through the air at light speed between the clouds was second nature, just something he did when he felt like it.
Above reflected below, or was it the other way around? He could not tell up from down. It was all a canvas, and splattered upon it were deep purples and bright pinks, some blues scattered about and a brilliant whirl of oranges and reds.
The colors all flickered as he moved between them, the clouds temporarily filling his eyes, or whatever he was using to perceive this beauty. He felt at home here, though he would not be able to explain where he was or what was happening.
At some point, he started to sense turbulence. It began as a slight tremor somewhere beyond the horizon and quickly spread throughout the luminous splattered canvas below him. It echoed through the clouds before reaching his body. He lost control, violently and suddenly and everything disappeared.
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Alpha waves.
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A pothole.
It pulled him back into the world of form and separation, the place where his body resided. The bus driver announced the next stop in a nasally voice. His eyes opened lazily.
A middle aged women two seats ahead of him.
A puke stain on the floor.
A plastic bottle rolling towards his feet.
Condensation dripping down the window.
Red brake lights outside, distorted by water on glass.
The buzz of an engine
The buzz of an engine
The buzz…
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Theta waves.
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The buzz of the wind blowing through his ears.
He returned to a brilliant mosaic, moving deeper and deeper into the depths of color. His body melted into them and he lost himself. The brilliant sun ahead of him, and a crescent moon, just barely visible behind him. It spoke.
“Do you remember me?”
If you'd like a reminder when the first mini-book is ready, let me know :-)
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Thanks man! I don’t know. I’m a bit sad that my blogs about what I’m doing today always do better than my heartfelt essays or stories but it’s always been like that. I think I’ll probably just post my essays here as a preview for some Self Help for Trolls release. For now I’ll get I+Everything moving. Nice bio! I think I’m ready to publish now! I need a free afternoon to look everything over and click that final button!
I couldn't help but notice that and wondered how you felt about it. The same often happens with my content. It's kind of murphy's law but we'll get there eventually: thriving as creatives.
And yeah, there's always a lesson in everything for those who are willing to put their Ego aside.
Awesome! I kind of hope you'll use that latest
photoshoppedmspainted pic that I sent you ;<)We'll talk soon :<)
Lol you use MS paint lol that actually makes me really happy to use your work. At the same time, you could probably do some crazy shit with other programs
As far as the posts, it is what it is. Hive is good for what’s it’s good for. More motivation to publish and put up songs elsewhere and hopefully my hive account can help my YT grow and my YT can help hive grow
Probably but I'm not read for that yet and MSPaint saves me precious time ;>)
Fingers crossed that will be the case.
This is great! I hadn't seen the post, and now that I see and read it, I loved it. There are two things: First, it seems great to me that the fractions in the mini-books the great novel is more intelligent, more digestible especially now, when time, without a doubt, yields less, that is why it is difficult for us to do certain extensive readings. Second, the way he writes is very poetic, and it describes well what I feel sometimes, when I do the quantum journey, it is a feeling of complete freedom! The urban or city shaman thing sounded great. In what each minibook has ready, let me know that this little piece that you gave us to read fascinated me. Greetings and blessings.
¡Esto está genial! No había visto la publicación, y pues ahora que la veo y leo, simplemente me encantó. Hay dos cosas: Primero, me parece genial que fracciones en minilibros la novela grande, es más inteligente, más digerible especialmente ahora, en que el tiempo, sin duda alguna, rinde menos, razón por la cual se nos hace difícil hacer ciertas lecturas extensas. Segundo, la forma que escribes es muy poética, y describes bien lo que yo siento a veces, cuando hago el viaje cuántico, ¡es una sensación de libertad plena! Lo del chamán urbano o de ciudad, sonó genial. En lo que esté cada minilibro listo, me avisas, que este pedacito que nos diste de lectura me fascinó. Saludos y bendiciones.
It started as a bunch of short stories but this character kept appearing and so eventually he got a back-story and I decided to put it all together. I agree that these days people may be more willing to read more easily digestible novels. I am. I am sorry to say I haven’t read a full novel in a long time, but if they came in 40 page bites, I’d probably get sucked right in!
That character is very particular, it intrigues me to know his adventures. And yes, now it is more complicated for people to read long novels, for two reasons: First, time is passing faster; second, there is a much greater flow of information than in previous decades, so we are constantly bombarded with news, events, data, and that reduces concentration.
Exactly. I feel spread to thin. I could spend 8 hours a day at Hive and still feel much more to explore, but I also want to have a good relationship with my physical surroundings and many people. It’s stimulus overload sometimes but it’s also fun!