work in progress: future foundation the finished product: -Die with Yours- inspired by the new fantastic four movie, which i highly recommend.
'What You Don't Know' I want you to watch me bleed out Can you feel it? The truth that debunks all of this doubt Please reveal it Before these eyes Close one final time And no longer listen to you pout This breath, steal it You don’t know what you don’t know You don’t know what You don’t know what you don’t know You don’t know everything Pain Is a constant reminder that i Am still alive Bane And bliss, both equal parts of this Relationship I want you to salt all these wounds Can you feel it? Reopen my scars and start anew Don’t conceal it Until the skin Becomes paper thin This message is clear, be not confused This veil, peel it You don’t know what you don’t know You don’t know what You don’t know what you don’t know You don’t know anything I loved you then, I love you still I’ll love again, I know you will I loved you then, I love you still I’ll love again, I know you will I loved unconditionally And then untraditionally At the last, unforgivably Here and now, ready for the kill Waiting, lying, still Wanting, trying, willed Here, gone, killed. http://jcv8481.wordpress.com
Wrote this last night. Calling it W.Y.W.O. Coded in soft language; covered in blue, Singing about her is across the sea. Won’t you come and remember the rushed plea of two planes headed for what could be true? The chasm of my chest welcomes song to it, but they sink in love like lust: sick and red. Means shit when this is where it has lead. Another meeting lost from where I sit. Ten to finish; sixty for them all, love, fantasy lost in certainty tonight. Pouring out the bottle; get drunk on light, Kissing the floor; If the hand fits the glove
Just straight up asked for a number/email to contact someone to talk about it. Said I was interested in doing an event and this was their response: They said they'd order the books to the store so not to worry about that? From what I've been told it definitely varies from store to store. Doesn't hurt to ask!
One of my best friends is an indie author. Her brother is a computer/app coder. Together they developed this app for formatting your books: I did a bunch of beta testing and it’s super easy to use. But I know we’ve got a few indies in here and figured I’d share.
super interesting! I'll give it a look so I don't have to bother @OwainGlyndwr again for formatting lol
This looks awesome. With your insider knowledge, do you know if there might be a Mac version in the works?
At the moment, they’re kinda ceding Mac to Vellum because most Mac users seem to love Vellum. Most PC users seem to hate Atticus, which is the closest thing to Vellum currently. But I’m sure if they can get it going, they wouldn’t be opposed. They’re launching with ebooks, then doing print. After that, maybe they’d launch Mac? I’ll talk to her about it. related: for those on PC, you can get a free copy if you agree to help them beta test some things. So @theagentcoma @OwainGlyndwr etc I can connect you with her if you’re interested.
Would absolutely love to, but I'm on Mac. Hoping everything goes well though, it seems like a great product.
Making good progress on my second novel. Spent the whole summer/late spring working out the plot, arcs, character progression, that sort of stuff. Wrote a prologue for it back in May, but the last couple weeks I’ve written about 10,000 words. It starts almost immediately after the first novel so it’s fun to get back into that world. Almost felt like waiting for season 2 of tv show, but I get to plot out the story instead of just watching it.
im probably going to start a comic next year. I've been fleshing out the characters and the world but actually getting the outline for the first arc set in stone is so daunting, especially 'cause I'm not a confident fiction writer. it's so much easier to just make characters and settings, and so intimidating to decide how to showcase them effectively in a compelling narrative. what I'm doing right now is creating just enough of a solid setting and backstory to feel like I have an idea for who the characters are and then just launch them off on the adventure and see what happens. of the two main characters, one is a former resistance fighter turned merc. I'm kinda basing him off ansarallah cause that's who I see as the good guys in the world right now. trying to maximize writing things that I'm interested in and excited about to get the story flowing organically, rather than just trying to figure out how to connect together set pieces in my head, i.e. the transitional linear boring stuff that I don't want to write idk we'll see what happens
a work in progress: upside down inside out my center of gravity is null hauntingly wonderful undertow overhead envelop every porous cavity precise insanity have me, take me, wake choking on both my truth, your wine bittersweet on my pallet the sensation, somewhat divine to compare would be tragic
apparently you’re either smarter, or clearer headed when you’re thousands of feet in the air? a few pieces i wrote during my flights to nyc last weekend: fragments: the word -No Hit Wonder- -presbyopia (through iris)-
(work in progress. first thing i've written in a few months so i'm a bit rusty!) Could I ever be enough? I've been wearing my past skin and tried to enact former feelings from the haptics of our love, but I could never get it right. I got bandages for teeth from gnawing on a tourniquet and the palms below my knees formed craters on my shoulder pads. A kiss in the morning becomes the lemma of my grace. Heartbeat in a cordon, spun in a figure 8.
Finished the first draft of book two. It currently sits at 206,000 words. I wonder how much that will go down/up. Excuse while I do something else for a few days
huge congrats, man. that's an enormous achievement. correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't you have a fair amount previously written that was going to be initially in the first book? curious how much of that you've changed or kept the same.
Thanks! All I had was the outline and a general idea. The only thing already written was the prologue. Honestly no idea how I did it. That first month after publishing I was so burnt out I didn't even want to think of starting the next one