Astro Bros Episode 6

January 27, 2024January 28, 2024 guardiandogg2 Comments

Largo

“What the fuck is this shit? Where the fuck is your workstation?” I demanded as I came in to Hexi’s lab/apartment. She didn’t look up in greeting.

Hexi flipped me off with jerky quick move before returning her hand back to her keyboard. “I had to sell my furniture and other shit to pay the rent. What the fuck do you want? You got a job for me or are you here for some ass?”

I got out my Datapad shaking my head. “I need you to find me a lead on a fucker called Archbold Whitehall. If you needed some credits you should have called me up. I told you, I got you.”

Hexi shook her head and started typing fast eyes focused on another screen as she worked. to get my information. “Twenty-five thousandth credits for a agreed upon relationship. It’s a one time payment until then we’re just part time partners in limited civil agreement.”

I looked over my shoulder at Omarion to see him frowning at me. He didn’t say nothing. But I knew what he was thinking. I looked back at Hexi to see her gaze looking up at my brother. “This is my brother, Omarion. Bro, This is Hexi Lightfoot, a business associate of mean. He just got out. We’re doing a job?”

“Nice to meet you. Sorry for barging in like this into your place. We would appreciate your services. Miss Lightfoot.”

She smiled at him. “A gentleman. That is a change of pace. It’s nice to meet you Mr. Astro. Your brother told me a little about you but I found the rest out easily enough. Are you looking for a lot of work?”

Omarion smiled. “I’m looking to be busy for the entire rest of my life with work. What you got for me, Miss Lightfoot. I’m at your service for the asking.”

Hexi smiled like a cat with a mouse in her sight. “I found him and a great many things happening tonight all in one place. Lightning Baby’s luck is with you tonight. If you make big tonight. I want half of the pay from the jobs you aquire over the next forty-eight hours. Agreed?”

“Hey! Wait a damn minute here-“

“Agreed. Where is he?”

Hexi smiled. “Club Zane. Red District. I’m sure you remember the place. Remember. Lightning Baby’s luck is with you tonight Big Brother. Take advantage of her offers.”

Omarion nodded his head. “Thanks Sis. When I come back hopfully it will be with some credits to replace your workstation arrangements. Later. Largo. Let’s head out. Looks like we’ll be finishing our first job faster then I expected.” He said turning and heading to the front door.

I stared at Hexi. “We need to talk later.”

She rolled her eyes and looked down at her computer screen. “We’ll talk when you pay me 25k credits into my account. Otherwise your just looking to get some ass and a back rub. Fuck all that noise.”

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Lords of Delta: Pete is finished and other projects.

September 7, 2023 guardiandoggLeave a comment

I’ve finished up my Amazon Vella season 2 for the Lords of Delta: Pete.

Season third I’ll bring out for next year up then I might stop all production for working on Amazon Vella.

Pros: The stories are pretty good and the word count minimum for writing on the series has been helpful for gaining experience in straighting myself and thinking on ways to expand my stories.

My thoughts currently about Amazon Vella.

Cons: Not that much money in Amazon Vella if you don’t have enough written content on the platform.

Currently, I’m working on my third book for Legends of the Pack lands while also edit book 2 of the series I started this year and trying to figure out what content I will be putting on YouTube.

2023 projects

Drakescape Metropolis book 1

Lords of Delta: Pete completed

legends of the pack lands 1 and 2 finished

3 is ongoing.

Stories on the blog: R1TA 2.0

Ongoing: Astro Bros.

Yeah. A lot of work but it’s what I want to do and the stories are awesome. This year has been a very productive year.

Warm Regards

Guardiandogg

I couldn’t get through this stuff. It’s…

July 16, 2023February 3, 2024 guardiandoggLeave a comment

Blood Median is….

boring as fuck!

I can’t my dude. I just can’t I have two books my McCarthy. One is an audiobook and this current one I got from a fellow writer and dude that loved this man’s work as writer. It’s not writing altogether is the jus the fact the book is boring as fuck.

There is style of poetry that it just feels like listening to a dude stands by the spirits & wine store talking with a hard bottle of cult 45 and is a slow as fuck talker.

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I’m a mostly traditional dude when it comes to the structure of writing but reading McCarthy and listening to McCarthy is two different things my dude. But, even listening to his stuff is a bit well…

boring as fuck.

There is something to learn from him as a writer but all in all. Fucking hell it was drag on my mind at points getting through his story and the un-mistakeable feeling of being in a tailspin of boredom and hungry to get some sleep afterward.

Warm Regards

GuardianDogg

Pre-orders for new book

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I’m going live with pre-orders for my new book and on a new platform. Barns & Noble will be a interesting new start for me book publishing wise.

Warm Regards

Guardiandogg

I’m analyzing Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy…He was an odd writer.

July 4, 2023July 4, 2023 guardiandoggLeave a comment

Okay my first introduction to McCarthy was Suttree. I was handed the physical book by a coworker at work. I read a bit of it and then got the audiobook and explored it a bit. I found it odd and like a movie in my mind or sentence that kept running on and on. Not bad but I had to speed it up because I was getting a bit bored with the story.

The same coworker gave me a different title that is the current book, Blood Meridian that I am reading and partly studying. I have never read anything like McCarthy. He had very loose with grammar and strange. It reminds me of a landscape painting of the wild west or mid west scenes of American Wild landscapes.

I have seen movies about his stories but his written form is strange. I feel a connection with his free style flow and none commitment formality. I’m studying the style. He had a nice poetry pose and western drawl. Hmm. It’s wild.

There is a lot of heavy poetic voice in his writing. It almost brings to my mind a picture of him sitting at his writing desk for hours on end just typing away a bit at a time with dictionary on one end of the desk and bottle of jack Daniels on the other end of the table.

He paints a very vivid dark down and dirty realistic picture of that time period of the western American experience and time in history before the west was fully won and it was born a kin to time of gun smoke and back alley business deals.

Warm Regards

GuardianDogg

I don’t have heroes. I have competitors. Vox Day is one of them.

July 1, 2023July 1, 2023 guardiandoggLeave a comment

Fuck it. I want to be the best blogger and experimental writer of my generation. So I’m setting my sight in competition with Vox Day.

Who is Vox Day?

He’s my favorite blogger in the known universe. One of my favorite high fantasy writers and all around legend. The dude goes by many names and has a wide range talents and abilities. He is referred to as….

Supreme Dark Lord of the Evil Legion of Evil to his supporters who he collectively refers to as The Reprehensibles after they have been described as such by Jordan Peterson. They consist of

the Ilk who are any of his fans
the Dread Ilk who were avid contributors to his blog since before he started his Darkstream
the Vile Faceless Minions (VFM) who are involved in cover

Yes. He is a real person. No I have no earthly idea how I came to know of the dude but I’m a fan of his writen works and writing style and I study his blogging productivity.

I’m lacking in the blogging area and I am hoping to big up my game. Though our styles of writing are totally different and our audiences are vastly different. I like the dude. He’s is without a doubt an interesting and honest individual.

So I’m going to push myself to reach. I’m shooting for a 2.3 million readers but I will saddle for a 100,000 people that want to come along on a journey of the written world and laughter.

Warm Regards

Guardiandogg

New writing habits!

June 21, 2023 guardiandoggLeave a comment

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I’m struggling with the current book and still using the new writing app.

It still sucks on my phone and is pretty useless. I have android and I don’t know what it’s like on Apple.

New book is a squel to the book I wrote on the app as a trial book experiment. I’m in that weird realm with my writing where every time I put in the work every day I have no idea where it will go.

I have the ending in my head but this time I’m trying to figure out what the beginning is and how deep will the story go.

There is action, adventure but those have become a side theme to the philosophical frame work of the nature of power.

Three new writing habits

1) I’ve fixed my thinking on finishing a story faster using the tools I’ve learned from books I’ve read. 2) I’m experimenting more on breaking structures in my normal story telling style. 3) I’m learning how to better implement philosophy and behavioral science into my story.

So far this year I’ve written three stories. November kiss?! Will probably be a good time to chance a 30k words draft this year.

Warm Regards

Guardiandogg

Updates and books I’m working on

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Aaron of the Sharo…is a man of mystery. Few know his humble beginnings or the origin of his legendary rise to power. On the last days of he recounts his begins, his trials, his set backs and his continuous internal flame to fight.

The book took me two and a half months to finish and it was a test run project I was working on to test out a new writing (Atticus app) program. The test was a good one and I ended up having a great bit of run. I’m planning on putting it on Ingram spark as and barns & noble within June 2023.

The app has it’s pros and cons still for me only works better on my computer and isn’t as helpful on my phone. I got a fun series out of the experience and I plan to get working with creating books with it.

For those interested. All my ebooks are on my patreon. I will also start doing video lesson for beginner intermediate writers looking to gain skills and confidence in writing and finishing their books.

Warm Regards

GuardianDogg

The future for writers regarding AI generated written books….

April 21, 2023 guardiandoggLeave a comment

The topic is interesting and yet rather silly from my point of view. This post inspiration comes from Author level Up podcast….

It’s interesting time for writers with advent of AI generated books and the sense of some writers feeling this the end of one era and the beginning of another.

I’m left however feeling like….what the fuck is the worry here? I hear the arguments and concerns and such but again AI is just another form of competition if that.

I’ve read and heard some of the written works of AI and I’m left with a feeling of…okay. It sounds like a generated voice in a sea of the same old shit, shat out by hundreds of authors in a sea of books and bullshit.

What is a writer?

A writer is an artist. There is no fucking way of getting away around it. Written books of pieces of art and collective voices of generations of voices moving through time. Readers don’t just buy, collect and read books for pure information or entertain entirely.

Voice, personality and ego all feed into why some books stand the test of time and others nobody can give two shots about. Beauty and flow of artistic experience and word Smith craft go into engraving into the minds of humans and color the imagination.

AI isn’t the future.. Is is the present tool of the age. Just like the word processor was the beginning age for modern writers. The computer killed the common use of the type writer. It didn’t kill the need to craft a story worth people giving a damn to read.

“Writers write.” – Throw momma from the train.

I love that movie. But, I didn’t come to understand the other half of sentence until many years and books later. Writers write because the urge to craft words into art never goes away.

AI generated books won’t be the death nail for writers because writers would have to stop writing for it to happen. By that time painters would have to give a damn about AI generated drawings.

On a side note. Now I don’t have to worry about hiring a narrator to narate my stories. AI narration is sounded pretty good. But, still you never know. I might get the Urge to narrate my own shit.

Warm Regards,

Guardiandogg

A review of Atticus writing and formatting application

April 17, 2023April 17, 2023 guardiandoggLeave a comment

What is it?

A writing and formatting programing mainly used to format books onto many platforms for publication from paperback to digital books you can get off of Amazon or on your iPad. You can get it on PC, Apple computers. Whatever your flavor.

Why use it?

It’s an affordable option for publishers, both big time and Indie class at price range of $147 dollars you have a wide breath of options on what computer you use it on because you main works are saved onto the cloud service and you can back up your work on your own computer.

How does it run?

I’ve tested the computer out for a few days sense I got it last week. My first impressions wasn’t good. There is a learning curve to operating it but if your patient and dig into the program there is a lot to use for a seasoned writer/publisher. I did buy this program for the option of being able to edit and write on it using my Android phone. The experience so far with using it on my phone is subpar if that. I would suggest simple using it on your computer. It’s just not at the moment optimized for Android. I don’t know about about Iphones or apple computers so I can’t give my opinion how Atticus works on those platforms so I will save my judgement on that.

The formatting option for eBooks has exceeded my expectations. It’s definitely a time and money saver for eBook production and formatting options. It’s worth it for this alone.

Pros:

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The price $147

The formatting options.

Built in writing scheduling word count for long and short projects

Speed run timer for writing sprints.

Cons:

It isn’t properly formatted for Android. The app sucks.

There is a learning curve. Requires patience.

In closing……

Would I recommend Atticus?

Yes. Absolutely. It is well worth the bargain price and the many usefull functions it provides for completing projects at a timely rate and getting work done on time.

Warm Regards

GuardianDogg