Becomes a reality
Characters dreamed of,
Found
Connected
Now entrusted with a story
Compelled to tell it
Because it was promised to them
Now, you will be an observer
Of the quantum
Category: Writing About Writing
The Arcane Blog – because the Monster in a Box is half about the process of writing itself
Author’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…
an IT conspiracy
think about it
they’re everywhere
in every company
they manage the pipelines
design, maintain
the routes of the most sensitive data
now, of course, there’s cryptography
that’s great at keeping individual bits locked
but zoom out further
every IT professional
either work for a company with robust protocols to keep their data safe
or work for a company that works for another, with non-disclosure agreements up the wazoo
So that’s fine; all the data stays tucked away, high in the cloud
But what’s between the lines?
What can be inferred by what is not said?
Which companies have agreements with whom?
And the boots on the ground, they know where at least some of the bodies are buried
They know what they’re asked to do and not do
But they have an idea of what is what and what goes where
So, in the lines between what is not said, as much from what is
Could be pieced together the most valuable
Dangerous and incendiary secrets
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.
end loop
parse documents
extract meaning
make sense
make notes
ask questions
seek information
~end loop~pirate meets ninja
The criminal underworld meets the actual underworld.
Bloody, violent, and add a romantic Mediterranean twist
theirs is a love of
A Thousand Lifetimes
