[[The War in Heaven]]
[[Monsters Among Us]]
[[ARMAGEDDON]]
[[Hell On Earth…]]
For all the Soul Vampires I’ve met. You know who you are…
Category: Front Matter
Genres of the Slipstream
Genres of the Slipstream
Occult Science Fiction
Paranormal Mystery
Psychological thriller
Bizarro
Cosmic Horror
inner dimensions of the soul
one who has suffered profound, deep, and dense depression
yet maintains an optimistic outlook, even absurdly so
Apologism for everything I hate
Transmuting
Negative feelings
Into positive ones
Through storytelling
My characters are my salt
Pain, the sulphur
The mercury
We will discover,
TogetherAuthor’s Confession
My path is one of a Wordsmith, an alchemist distilling ideas into words. It is all that I am.
A crafter with words and a creator of content
I have a great story to tell. The Arcane Diary.
A piece of art can be born, lived in, and take on a life of its own. Through the internet, where it lives, into the hearts and minds of the reader.
Now, it must escape.
The web allows extraordinary flexibility for creativity in storytelling
In words and vision
A writer should write about what they know, and what I know is this: this story scares me.
To unleash it into the world, doubly so.
While I have never doubted its vision, becoming a writer capable of it has been long and fuckin’ weird.
The time compels it NOW.
Reading this makes you an observer, allowing this quantum entanglement to reach across the fabric of Mind—from my heart to yours.
Please enjoy your experience.
Web novel is a paradox, an oxymoron, a dichotomy
- Novel design, web delivery
more on this somewhere…
the arcane diary posits a fairly simple question
a simple question
with enormous repercussions
what if it all were true?
myth
scripture
fiction
the ethereal realm of imagination
if something can exist only there,
where is that, exactly?
Elsewhere –
to my Earthican friendsForeword
The Arcane Diary has been a work in progress for
nearly fifteen years, never mind how long.That it is now getting the chance to see the light of day makes me very proud to reach this accomplishment of completing the process of bringing something original of my creation into the world in this way, but also ashamed of the delays of distraction and ineptitude.
When something is meant to happen, it happens, and this is happening now.
I intend to produce a piece of work that is dear to my heart in a way different than I have seen done before. My hope is that even if the process is not successful that it should at least be novel. Puns will be kept to a minimum. I promise.
One of the biggest obstacles to writing is nagging self-doubt
Will my work get finished? Will it be any good? Will anyone like it or care?
These are the first hurdles a writer must overcome before having the audacity to create something new in the world.
The desire for acceptance and the greed for acclaim is another huge problem that alters the purity of the creative process or stalls it completely. Once this can be put aside, the only resistance is the piece itself.
I have learned not to overthink this and to do it and see where the chips land. A total piece-of-shit flop of creation is still a creation that wouldn’t have existed if you had become stuck in your head.
The process is highly cathartic once it begins. The story inside you is burning to get out – dying to become borne into the world and be shared with others. The reader gives it a life entirely outside of what a writer can ever imagine.
To deny the creation the opportunity will seriously constipate the mind
I was told to write and to write raw.
That was great advice at first. Trying to piece together many of the pieces into a coherent work is a challenge in itself, leading to much rewriting and editing.
Letting it happen naturally is the way to start it. Please don’t concern yourself too much about the final form it will take; that will come much later. This was a big stumble for me writing The Arcane Diary, wondering how I would make it happen and whether it would be profitable even to do it.
The world that was when this story began taking shape no longer exists. This new world now is much more conducive for creating original work and sharing it with as many readers as possible.
I have set out to do so by publishing using the web as a medium for creating a dynamic – and evolving – piece of work through time. It has worked surprisingly well with the story, as you will see.
Introduction to the Arcane Diary
Author’s Intro
The Arcane Diary is a project that I have been working on for a really long time.
On one hand, I am somewhat ashamed that it has taken this long to see the light of day.
Conversely, the fact that it means as much to me as it does shows simply in how long it has been nagging at me to get done. I felt like it was a good story then, approximately fifteen (fifteen!) years ago, and it has never left my mind since. I still think it will be worth your time now. So that’s why it is in the final push to get it done.
Photo by hannah grace on Unsplash I have decided on publishing The Arcane Diary to the web for several reasons. First of all the cost is minimal for me, and nearly free for you, the reader. If that helps to facilitate more people having access to the story, then that is the best possible outcome. I decided that worrying about something as irrelevant (to the story) as anticipated revenue was at odds with actually getting the thing done, so here it is. With the medium of a website, the story does not have to even be completed before it is shared, and this is another huge hurdle for a first-time novelist — the looming question of will anyone even read it. It’s just more irrationality, admittedly, but this solves that problem since I can publish pieces of the story as they become polished enough to do so, and this will inspire momentum in finishing it in a timely fashion. Another huge plus is that it can be updated, indeed as a good website, should be updated regularly. This allows for the possibility of an evolving story, not just one that once finished is set in stone.
That is not to say that I plan on muddling through without having a plan for the finish (because I’m glad to say that I do have one!) but it allows for parts to be added onto if need be to provide a dynamic reading experience that I hope you will particpate in with your time, and feedback.
Photo by Ian Schneider on Unsplash As a writer, I appreciate the need for accountability to my audience, and I truly believe that this format will allow for real-time interaction between us and hope that it gives a platform for as many people who are interested in the work as well as an opportunity to create a constructive dialogue. In addition to the story, I will continue to write meta-articles like this one, as I often find myself inspired to write about writing while writing. I sincerely hope this will also add value to the readers’ experience, as it will certainly give an insight into the thought processes and inspirations behind the story. The internet is a great meeting place for ideas, and I want to embrace the potential exchange of thoughts in both directions, not just mine to yours. So feel free; I can’t wait to hear from you, dear reader!
One of the very real and exciting potentials that I can see is in the layout since the Arcane Diary is really the story of multiple fascinating (or at least I think so) characters with interwoven storylines, the timeline for publication and final arrangement can be more fluid than if it were just a single character. Originally the title was going to be The Arcane Diary of Nick Savoy, written by Xander Mercurio. Way too long, first of all, and it quickly became evident that while Nick is the first character I created, the rest of the cast were to be equally, if not more so, important to the overall picture that formed. So the title got axed, and rightly so, and as I explored each character I realized that The Arcane Diary couldn’t exist without them. As key as a protagonist is in developing a story, the other characters deserved better than to exist as merely supporting roles but had diverse and interesting stories themselves to merit being heroes or villains in their own right. The same can be said about the relationship between the author and readers. This web format will hopefully provide an opportunity to let the characters speak for themselves, and to be able to tell their stories simultaneously in a way that does justice to each. What the final form may take I’m still not certain, but that’s okay. I am confident that it will work out and the journey will be satisfactory for all parties involved.
