Tag: Learning

What am I learning so far from writing a Parody?

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I’m writing around 1k words with in James Potter and The Court of Owl and uploading a chapter a day with edits and rewrites in the process. I started doing this project as a means to see if I could write a pure parody/fan fiction within the themes of an original story world. This is what I’m learning.

  1. Research. I have had to do a lot of damn research in getting some themes right and my mind focused on the world I’m writing in.
  2. Keeping to a tight schedule. I’m making myself stick to writing 17 chapters with this thing. Run and done.
  3. Outline. I have a outline for every damn chapter and the progress of the story and it’s a lot less complicated trying to think up what I will write about the next day. I already know but I still have to adjust the name of the chapter once it’s written.
  4. managing my energy. This is a short project in a novella form. But still I have to manage my energy because I still have another project that is on a longer time table.
  5. Chatgpt. I’m using A.I prompts a lot for this one. For images, analysis of writing, research and images. It’s cutting down the time and keeping me focused on getting my writing done on time.

Conclusion. I will adapt what I’m learning for my next books and use everything I’m collect it all together in a tool box. If I can master what I have going my productivity will increase as will the quality of my writing editing.

The charecter that is the story…(on writing shit) and (book nerd shit)

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One of my favorite new generation of writers dropped this quote to me from some old G.

“Create a strong character and a story will build itself around the character.”

I thought on that shit more then a minute and then gave up the pursuit. Then one evening or some time in between work and daylight dreaming I saw a man wake up in a open grave on witching hour. I heard his thoughts as I wrote them down.

– Fucking hell. Images of two dark harpies standing over me flashed in my mind. To that moment to that hour. My life ended under the full glow of mother moon’s smile.

This was it. My death. My own blood and shame pooled around me in the dirt. In the shit. On a night of my wedding anniversary when mother moons tears covered my face. Power drained from me. The call of the moon did not lend itself to my soul. I felt real rain hit my face and I realized with shock and dismay. I was still alive. I opened my eyes to hell. –

The story? No my dude. The story doesn’t matter. I didn’t create a story. I wondered into the life moments of a character that was telling me a moment or time in his current story. The world? Fuck all I know. I learn about that shit as he teaches me through his encounters with the locals.

It’s his world. The mystery is who he is. The mystery is why is he telling me this shit. The mystery is what kind of man is he. What lessons can he teach.

Think about that. Those kind of stories fuck with me but I find myself drawn into the world deeply with a real character whose thoughts and actions aren’t so simple or motives so easy to understand even to himself at times. That’s what I love about books and writing.

Warm Regards,

Guardiandogg

Conflict and trial!? I vap that shit and it tastes like bubblegum cotton candy

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I grew up raised by a single mother. Enough said. I was a pussy for most of my life until shit got real and life decided to put me on front street and give me the shit test finally.

I stood in front of a hospital bed where my mother was dying of some shit I didn’t  understand. Fuck I still don’t understand to this day. One year ago she was healthy one year later I got to make plans for her fucking burial having to decide how much money I could spend and whether I could honor my ancestor’s wishes.

I couldn’t and the dishonor follows me like a demon today.

I learned a lesson that she couldn’t teach me in those months in my PSD hours when my own failures haunted me every waking hour. Life has it’s Joy’s and life has it’s series of shit tests.

I swam in pools of despair for months and then one mother fucking old G’s words in stilled in me the words to what I was learning.

“Life is conflict. Conflict is the air we breath and the water we swim in.

Get used to it. Embrace it and live for it because the ride doesn’t end.” – VD

That mother fucker spoke some real shit. He had been through some real shit. My spirit brother lite a fire in my ass.

It took a while to fully compute. Even now I’m still growing into the mindset.

My friends I ain’t telling you this shit to cry for me. You been through the shit test too. It’s what we do. Fuck despair and her bitch twin sister depression. Bitches didn’t do shit for me but try to suck me dry and stop me from planning my mother’s funeral and keeping me at a stand still when I had to move.

Fuck um. Fuck um both with a Iron rod no lube. I back hand those bitches now a days and put them in their fucking place under my boot and kissing my fucking toes.

I’m here to delight your day and make you life lighter at my silly ass. I find joy in that. Mere words can bless and provide warmth on a cold season in life and laughter for the soul sweet.

Warm Regards

Guardiandogg

Systems of learning: Auditory learning

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Hello,

Fellow writers and scholars of the written word. I greet you with warm affection and a heart filled with a appreciation for your following and fellowship.

Are you listening to my words in your head?

Or

Are you a classical western learner who takes in knowledge by words alone.

For context sake:

Auditory learning is a learning style in which a person learns through listening. An auditory learner depends on listening and speaking as a main way of learning. – Google

I wasn’t taught that bit of knowledge in public school on my short span of time I spent in it. Neither was I graced with that bit in college even though that’s how I’ve always ever been successfully in the system learning anything.

This is something I knew about myself that when I’m reading I’m usually hearing the words in my head or when I’m studying something I’m usually repeating the information back to myself in my own voice or my internal voice to make the information more internalized to my thoughts.

Now is listening reading?

Not really. To read

Reading is the complex cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive meaning. It is a form of language processing. – Wikipedia

On average I am a slow reader depending on whether the subject or story peeks my interest. On subjects like music, fiction, science fantasy, science fiction, action adventure etc. In short I’ve often read for fun and not so much to learn anything.

At an above average rate I can listen to several hours of content and take in more information more easily.

I’m not bragging because I haven’t determined if is or is not good method to be a person who learns naturally from reading or one who learns best from listening and hands on approach. The smartest and brightest stars of our generation and previous ones have all had common threads of being prolific readers. Thomas Sowell, Vox Day, Robert Frost, Ray Bradbury etc.

In any case it’s the way I learn. It’s the way I write. I know the mother tongue of English by the sound of her song and flow of a sentence if it can be spoken aloud with a clear ring to it.

L. M. Parker

NWMW has come and gone…How did you make out?

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Hello, writers,

and fellow lover’s of the written word.

How has the writer’s month fared for you and your humble projects?

The month was both an exciting time and a nerve wrecking time cruncher. I failed in the end but I wrote and challenged myself with producing new content. The book lies in the realm of incompletion but there is a form there for some potential.

All in all

November’s kiss was biter sweet but I will fondly only remember the sweetness of each word.

Winter is coming.

Maybe, Winter’s kiss will fair better for me.

L. M. Parker

P.S.

My new book goes live now. You can get Life Of A Prince part 2 The Gathering right now.

DAY 8 to DAY 9 NNWM Notebooking and plot discovery.

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Hello,

I’ve been notebook writing a chapter about

The first plot in

Act one of

Section one of

November’ Kiss.

Coming soon

On

September 21st

Of 2019.

🙂

I’m just kidding on the date. The first is all true and factorial.

Yep, this book’s creation is going to go slow but I’m getting somewhere. I have a strong suspicion that I’ll finish the Anthology first though before the month is done. I’ll keep you posted.

L M. Parker

P. S.

I couldn’t think of anything to write the other because I didn’t have anything to confer back to you of great import.

Day 7 NNWM I’m working on my anthology at the moment

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I’m not quieting on

November’s Kiss but I am taking a break at least for today and working the anthology. Only due to the fact the ideas for the collection of stories are coming to me more and I want to finish it as well.

I am at my heart a short story writer or honestly I find writing short stories come at great pleasing fast pace. Writing a novel  on a computer is like trying to run a marathon when I think in the mode of sprinter. I want to get to the end but I have this one problem with writing on computer that is coming up a lot.

I’m editing as much as I’m writing on November’s Kiss at the same time. I know I shouldn’t be doing this for simple reason it slows down my writing but writing on computer all though a lot faster has the bad habit for me of trying to edit back over what I written to much.

Note: You should never edit as your writing the first draft just keep writing until it’s done. 

When I’m writing short it isn’t so much a grand problem only when I’m writing a novel does it slow me down a lot.

The artist in me prefers to

Write by hand. Carefully sewing

The words to form the landscaped world

That lives in my mind.

When I type I find the words

Come faster but my wonders and I see

My mistakes and I stall in place on that one

sentence some days for days. Wondering. How can I reword that idolog to sound better.

I’ll keep you posted.

L. M. Parker

P.S.

Wishing you well on your writing pursuits hopefully we’ll

make it to number 30 together and gain a completion prize on this

Marathon we are on.

I accidentally started working on a Anthology and I’m loving it and NNWM planning

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I’ve noted in previous posts that I’ve been writing a lot lately. The whole experience has been a journey of rediscovery about my writing pace. I’m hammering out short stories like crazy and working on a series of stories compiling them into a Anthology for no particular reason. I think I’ll put out a Anthology next year but don’t hold me to that I’m still analyzing if I can keep up the pace. Anyway, I was doing the Anthology as a means of keeping the stories locked in one document because they’re all related to one another in genre and I’m finding myself finishing and jumping between each story as the ideas come to me. My writing pace is getting to be pretty speedy when I’m writing short stories. Not bragging I’m just surprised though it has made me realize how fast my writing pace could be when I’m writing in short story format of thinking.

I am not a novelist

nor do I want to be now

however I’m still in the NNWM  mindset but I think I’ll have to cheat a little.

I’ll have to organize the book in sections Three separate books in a similar Anthology style some what.

Beginning  – Book 1 Morning (naïve) Adventure begins 10 to 20 chapters

Middle  –      Book 2 Night (Conning) Discovery of the dragon 10- 20 chapters

End      –       Book  3 Dawn (Wise) Conquering of the dragon 10-13 chapters

  • Note: The names reflect the character as he/she works through their life struggles. There are no dragons in the story I’m doing. It’s a traditional hero’s journey of sorts.

I’ll work the page count to about 50,000 plus words though I’ll maybe add on more if I can write at a fast pace. Now I’ll have to figure out what format will I go for. Hmm. Now that’s the tough one. First or third person. Decisions. Decisions. I might do both. I’ll keep you posted.

L. M. Parker

 

The Realist

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Hello,

It’s bean a while yet. I wish I could say I was off rescuing the world with colorful whit and charm but I like to keep it real with a spot of humor..

I’m been in that moody black place of depression, self doubt and self loathing. I’ve been writing consistently but in a more therapeutic way. I’ve been writing to get out unwanted feelings and trying out styles I normally wouldn’t craft and I’ve been working on my professional side projects that will actually see the light of day.

  • In short: I’ve been writing angry fiction and whole lot of bucket full of raw dark comedy/action stuff with a mixture of were-wolves and 45. hand guns.

I still don’t know if I will finish everything on time before November’s kiss welcomes me with the muse of creative energy to do what I haven’t done before.

  • Don’t mean me I’m just straighten out my poetic fingers.

But, I’ll give it a shot. Enough about me let’s talk about writing or more to the effect you and writing.

Writing is a interesting exercise in creative freedom and expression and the wonderful opportunity to cut away all the blinders of how life should be and relating to the world how it is.

What am I talking about?

When you’ve been writing long enough there will come a time (If your patient) that you’ll finally get past lying about the nature of reality in regards to human interaction and telling the truth. That’s real fiction my friend.

No.

Correction.

That’s real art. Truth that punches you in the face and is relatable to someone whose felt that way and he/she is comforted. When they (the reader) can read a story that relates to that reality back to them the truth that someone out in the world understands them and their desires.

We all want to get there. To that place were the words connect to the truth and it’s not happenstance or luck of a mystical muse fairy. When your asked about it you can say with a little bit of earned pride. “No. I said it and I meant every word of it. If you felt something from good for you but it was fun writing every word and terror to my soul to admit it.

L. M. Parker

Let’s do a brainstorm session for no man’s land ideas for a story

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Okay! Like the title suggests. This is a brainstorm of ideas for a story/series idea. Any ideas that come up from the post if there any good please, please.

STEAL THE IDEAS PRESENTED…

Random words…

FMA

LOSS

POLITICS

FOOLS

STATES

MONEY

DEATH

TAXES

CHICAGO

BREAKDOWN

NEVER SAW IT COMING

1# Example:

James Hill was a runner for the South Side King Pin Sam Heed of Chicago, he ran everything from food, Dogs, sheep, drugs, Laptops and guns. He made his most profit from guns and laptops though. It was the third year after the major break down of the North America and the only jobs one could find were online or working for a local King Pin in your state if you wanted to get bread for your tribe and protection for your family against the IRS Federal Mob Agents you needed to get strapped and locked in with large gang.

James had been seventeen when the breakdown happened in twenty-nineteen. He had learned quick to adjust to the times when FMA killed his father in a home invasion and put James’ mother in prison for tax evasion claims once the government finally went belly-up once they knew the financial magic illusion show was over and the country couldn’t pay-back China. The government came looking for James’ billionaire father’s money seizing their property, land, house, cars even the clothes off their backs. It was no rules.

James had taken his two younger sisters April age 12 and Megen age 7 and headed on the road evading the FMA until he hocked up with an old friend from college Sam Heed when he took over South Side in the last gang war to unite the gangs. By mid-winter high takes hit every state one after the other until by January 2end  the FMA had trouble of it’s own protecting the politics and news casters from harm rather then chase after him.

Hmm. Not perfect. But it’s an alright example of a brainstorming session to exercise your creative muscles. Try it out if will.

Comment below on your thoughts.

L. M. Parker

 

Writer’s November month dreaming

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November is coming…

Here in America you can see the signs. People are talking about politics. Well. People are always talking about Politics. The climate is strange for those not so much inclined to think much of politics in November.

November is also the writing season. Young and old  writers all dedicate themselves to finishing that novel they’ve been working on for the whole year or years. It’s also that time of challenge. You put forth your effort toward starting and completing a novel or novella in one month’s time.

Hmm. Just imagine entering a single competition with yourself for one goal and end. A completed first draft story before December’s marry time rolls in. A gift or present to yourself.

I know. I sound quite odd if not crazy but I can’t help it. It’s the bug that’s has caught hold of me. Can you my fellow lover’s of the written word say otherwise. Writing is a joy as much for the challenge behind it as it is a joy in the process of creating meaning with the daily words we use daily.

There is

There is

A beauty to this craft.

There is

A Majestic magic

To our Shakespearian English

Heritage.

A wonderful challenge to

Wrestling with concepts

And

Adverbs.

We spin our nouns in

Different directions and

Form

Meaning to craft our stories

That our youths will fight for

And live to sing to the

Generations to come.

 

L. M. Parker