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Thank you and I have a few encouraging words for you..

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To all the readers and people that have come along with me for the ride of these days that have gone to the dogs I thank you and I have gift for you….

The time of change is upon us. The days of comfort and bordom are behind us.

Breath it in my friends. The scent of spring and growth. Feel the brease against your skin with the kiss of summer heat to beginning to warm our lost hopes. They weren’t lost just frozen in time until this moment.

The cold and bitterness could not last. The time of adventure is upon us.

I chuckle a little. I’ve never felt more ready for a fight. I’ve never felt more inclined for a rumble.

Listen to these words. Strive for mastery of your chosen vocation. Strive against the brainwashing of the day.

Choose life. Choose to defend what is it good, beautiful and true. Choose to hold on to the language and traditions of your nation and culture. Choose to honor your ancestors by embracing their shit kicking attitude. Choose to accept that you must be. You have to be….

A mother fucking bad ass.

Warm Regards

Guardiandogg, the bard of the interwebs and sage of dark comedy

Updates on my book project and blog (writing craft)

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It’s been three months sense the days gone dog got going.

Holy shit.

The ride has been a wild ride. I think the blog had 35 readers but now the blog is up to a hundred plus readers.

The material is the life and strange times I’m in. The comedy and weirdness of every day life.

The big book project for this year is picking up on the weekend. In slow periods but I’m putting in the words.

I plan to finish the book either in the summer or in writer’s November kiss.

What have I learned so far? When I was young I wanted to be a bard to express my self in words and pen. I was shit at it from the jump and not honest enough.

I’m writing now at a consistent rate and it’s the most honest and forthright I’ve been with curve toward bullshiting for my own sense of humor.

I just find a wide rang of shit in my life funny and I want to be honest about it. Very very few things piss me off nowadays. But, the focus for this blog is to make you laugh, smile and enjoy the ride of life. Instead of fearing tomorrow join me in my quest to embrace the uncertainty and live to take on the conflict with gusto and humor.

Save the doom and bed wetting for the black pillers and despair merchants.

Warm Regards

Guardiandogg

Ernst Hemingway taught the importance of voice (writing Craft) and (book nerd shit)

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I’m not much of a scenery writer or that in the category of crazy ass balls genius. I just write and I enjoy the process of figuring out the moving parts of a story but most importantly…

I like voice.

You know that neverland feeling you get when you listen to a story and the characters voice and personality seem so real to you that you begin to weigh and question the motives of an imagined character.

It’s the one time in your adult life your allowed to go on rants about what the fuck was Frank thinking entertaining a thought of fucking with that bitch. I know. He wasn’t thinking at all. That bitch sat on his lap and took over the thinking department.

Love at first sight? More lust when she sat on his…

What the hell was I talking about? Yeah. Voice. I dig Hemingway’s pose with writing a voiced charecter that put you in the driver’s seat in the story.

I like that is a kin to magical for me. Story wise for with his stories and few I’ve read. I don’t care so much.

I like strong believable charecters you can hate, love or love to hate.

Warm Regards

Guardiandogg

An imaginary country alive only in people’s heads (writing craft)

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It’s an idea that’s turning in my head. Listen a bit and steal it if you find anything useful in it.

Idea: USA ended in 2019. The country has been functioning on a delusion sense then.

Add on: In the fall of 2020, the President is informed that the country is defaulting in late 2021. The last depression is set for winter of 2022 that will spell the end for the State of America.

Add on: The year is 2024 alot has changed sense the depression arrived two years ago. The country has divided back into wild territories and the Texas region is trying to make a trade deal with Russia for protection against the Chinese states of New York and California.

Add on: It’s 2025, Texas War Chief Joe Jones is set to start a deal with FedEx and Amazon to bring in some money for the region but he’s in a espionage war with Chinese CIA agents trying to steal the deal for the Chinese American Communists Party.

It goes on from there. I’d say you would just need one event to set off a domino effect or you can keep up the delusion factor. Make it be that everyone adapts to changes by means of making it fashionable or messages given by Joe Biden. People still believe America exist even when the facts and internal wars don’t line up with their thinking.

Update: story is told from Joe Jones perceptive. He starts out story as a Texas Ranger

Warm, Regards

Guardiandogg

What’s the challenge of the day for you? For me it’s regular bullshit and self-imposed challenges

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I grew up wanting to be a writer and being a gamer. Why don’t I talk about the gaming shit?

The fuck I know?

And.

The challenges of life and writing often times are more inspiring for me to write about. I’ve got my every day shit. For me the consent shit is energy management and basic goals getting my mind right for the day.

Alright. Fuck I don’t want to get up but fuck it I have to get. Push.

I noticed recently I’ve been setting mini challenges for myself throughout the day and during work. Not the bullshit goals, corporate tasks you. What’s my goal for my assignment? How can I achieve my goal at maximum speed and energy level management?”

Of course I didn’t notice this at first until yesterday when I didn’t fullfill my own goals. I felt the disappointment of it and I wondered at it.

It’s the feeling of playing a game with yourself or a strong opponent and trying to achieve a minor or big victory in a single bout or game.

What drives you? What drives us all to challenge ourselves to be better then we were yesterday?

The conflict or the challenge of every day living can get boring as fuck sometimes. The same thing over and over again and again. But, challenges we set for ourselves or goals make add a spice to it that was not there yesterday or two days ago.

Just some food for thought.

Warm, Regards

Guardiandogg

Book writing is going to shit right now…(writing craft)

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I hit a wall for the last few days and I’m trying to work my way out of it. Life and depression get in the way some times….

Hmm.

That’s a weird thing to say but it’s true. When you have to deal with shit needing to be done so you can get back to crafting the bridge between the beginning to the ending of a book.

It’s tax season and every other bullshit thing I have to deal with as well is smashing into each other to create a nice little distraction from finishing my main book project. It’s frustrating to put it mildly.

I’m getting there but it’s going to take me some time. That I don’t like. I want to finish the story so I can edit and finally be able to read it completely instead of having the shit in my head in pieces of dialogue and scenes of action.

I’m writing other shit to keep active but the main book is my major goal this year seeing how things are shaping up to be. Not being a downer just looking at the shit storm for what it is and embracing the coming conflict.

Damn though. I really want to read the story and have it in my hands by the end of this shit storm year.

Warm Regards

Guardiandogg

The art of the mystery in fiction and otherwise (writing craft) A lesson from Sherlock Holmes

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I have weird periods now where I can go months without reading anything new but one series of books and stories.

Sherlock Holmes.

I’m not even that much a mystery buff but the style of stories and the way the mystery for each tale is laid out aways pulls back to reading SH adventures.

I just like the way the mystery is laid out. You the reader are presented the tale and put on the road to discovering what the answer to the mystery at a great pace nothing is given away until the last possible moment.

Side note: I hate mysteries or stories where you feel no give a damn about because the mystery is just filler for the charecter.

I find myself thinking about this a lot now that I’m writing my own set of mystery tales that are charecter driven.

You (the writer) create a charecter the fiction world presents him a problem and the world raises the takes for him making it personal for him to discover or uncover what the hell is going on. You (the reader) him (the character) are on a journey of discovery and adventure.

I find myself as the writer having a cloudy vision for what the hell is going to happen when the focus is on character. That’s a problem for me though I know the ending.

The beginning is a sun raise and the ending is a sun set but the shit that happens in the middle always frustrates me. You don’t know what will happen in the middle to connect it all. It is the challenge of mystery or writing fiction for me.

Hot damn! What a time to be alive.

I feel most lively in that creative process of the middle of the rocky road heading to the end.

Warm, Regards

Guardiandogg

How much is to much explanation for fantasy bullshit (writing craft)

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I was just having a discussion with best friend about this topic this morning in a series of random circulating themes about stories and why telling the audience to much shit can back fire.

Case and point. Buffy the vampire slayer. An American television show I watched toward bat shit ending the season series cliff fall. Man I rocked with this show hard and was addicted to just see where it would end.

But, I have to admit that show lost me in respect for the craft of writing fantasy when the writers revealed that Buffy’s supernatural strength came from one a couple of black dudes kidnapping the first slayer girl tying her down and allowing some mist shit demon to rape her.

The weirdness of the episode always took me completely out of the story if I didn’t purposely try to forget that episode existed. The writers broke a rule in writing I found remarkable stupid.

They tried to explain in stupid detail magic bullshit. I’m not saying creating a magic system for your make believe world isn’t worth wild. But, even when brillant writers don’t shit the bed as bad as the source of Buffy’s powers the shit is risky explaining magic bullshit.

Think of the marvel universe of movies and stories. Not perfect but the rules of story once established they aren’t fucked with to much.

Superman’s source of power is the yellow sun. That shit was established years ago and hasn’t really been fucked with that much or overally explained. It is what it is.

I still don’t know what type of mist shit demon that shit that raped the girl was. It still is bullshit to me to this day or why or how they trapped that shit in a box and I don’t care. To much bullshit.

Warm Regards,

Guardiandogg

Reverse engineering World building (writing craft)

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I’m working on my current book and I’m finding out that it is very different from the world I originally thought it was.

The genre of the series started out in the real world with Urban Romance and classic western values. Trouble is it’s been more then five years sense I started writing in the world and I have of course changed as has the vision of the world with the introduction of new characters that do not fit in the real world.

It’s new for me. This discovery that the world’s history is counter to what I thought. I like it.

I have an idea of what type of world it is because I’ve explored thoughts of a time shift of events that happened in the civil rights era. Though to be honest the conversations, characters and ideas of family are fantastic to see being played out.

Though I’m getting ideas of how major the change is.

Once the charecters were established in the first book I don’t try to change their motives or guide them I just let them tell the story by their reactions to what gets thrown at them.

This book or series is really fun to write. I started writing seriously when I was twelve but right now it’s finally paying off. I’m writing something that is not only entertaining to me I’m writing about characters that feel real. It hasn’t been easy to get to this point but right now…..

Hot damn! What a time to be alive.

Warm Regards,

Guardiandogg

I’m writing to music (writing craft)

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New book is almost writing itself as one conversation or series of events roll by.

I don’t know if there is a lesson some what of the power of charecters that feel real or you like to explore where the hell they’re going.

I find myself just enjoying the play with each string of an action they undergo. The drama and play of their universe is interesting to me.

Anyway, I didn’t tend on playing music as I’m writing occasionally but it really helps to put me in a mood for the kind of genre the book follows.

Right now I’m listening to lucid dream by monogram.

It is like hearing tear drops of rain on a sunny day. Hard describe that feeling of a fresh attraction taking hold of you as you smell the scent of female who moves in close enough where you almost taste her scent or essence on you tongue.

I’m writing a romantic drama. So the song is ripe the good vibes it gives as a listen and see the encounters of couples learning each other and vibing off their sexual chemistry for one another.

It’s something new I’m discovering can accurately be helpful.

String theory (writing craft)

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I often times find myself wondering about the elements of a good story. Where does it begin?

From my own experience it has always started with a string or hint of an idea already revealed to me in a story. I pull on it a little and often times more string comes out of the ground. So I pull and keep pulling until I have an idea that strong enough to wrap around a world or strong enough to hold my attention.

Narratives matter and the style of how information is given on a given topic of world building.

Warm Regards,