Blog Post #4
Well not much has been going on. I’m still looking for a job and that’s okay. So far I’ve only done one interview and didn’t get the job (there were of course other candidates, and I didn’t make the cut unfortunately) so I’m back to square one. Also, I got my first COVID vaccine shot, Pfizer if you really want to know. So far the only symptom was a sore arm, which lasted for a day or two but otherwise nothing serious to report or worry about, which is of course good. I get the second one in a couple weeks so that’s taken care of and that’s about it for that.
Work on In the Pit of Vipers is going slower than I really want. It’s a book that seems pretty ambitious and taking me to places I haven’t written about. For those who don’t know what this book is, it’s the fifteenth book in my 2-4 Cavalry series. Yep, fifthteenth book. Some of the earlier books are short stories really while some are novel length books setup in a vignette format which I clung to as that worked for me. Later on I developed another way, using microfiction to write out my stories, because really I don’t have much to write. Book 6, Operation Morning Glory was an attempt at a “typical” novel book and I didn’t like writing it. Nobody reads it (check it out though if you’re interested, you can find it here: https://amzn.to/3g0fgvk) so I don’t know if people liked it or not. It’s been out for years, I guess a Christian trying to make it a standard religion in a society that frowns upon that isn’t good enough to read. I thought it might start some controversy (it deals with religion) but I just want people to like it.
Anyways, going off on a tangent. My new “format” is micro-fiction in days, so I can make shorter stories come together as a better way to handle events daily, as I see fit. I don’t do everyday but like a TV show, that handles the action on that particular day that means something to write. Well In the Pit of Vipers is on Earth and the local solar system (the one we currently live in) and the conflicts therein. It’s somewhat random, just things here and there but towards the end of the book currently there is a terrorist that is trying to “punish” the Muslim Coalition for it’s existence. I’m reading a lot of books on the MIddle East recently (other than The Hardest Place, which covers my time in Afghanistan in one chapter) so I’m defining this terrorist, and how my unit works on that threat towards the end of the book.
Right now it’s slowly coming together, and it’s probably a realization that I don’t have enough data to really write the book fully yet. It’s not laziness but a case of “the pieces aren’t put together” yet and the threat isn’t that well defined other than a cookie cutter terrorist. I don’t write in the viewpoint of the terrorist so I don’t know how to fully flesh this out yet. Something will hit me I’m sure and I’ll finish In the Pit of Vipers… sometime before the next millennium I suppose.
Work on In the Pit of Vipers is going slower than I really want. It’s a book that seems pretty ambitious and taking me to places I haven’t written about. For those who don’t know what this book is, it’s the fifteenth book in my 2-4 Cavalry series. Yep, fifthteenth book. Some of the earlier books are short stories really while some are novel length books setup in a vignette format which I clung to as that worked for me. Later on I developed another way, using microfiction to write out my stories, because really I don’t have much to write. Book 6, Operation Morning Glory was an attempt at a “typical” novel book and I didn’t like writing it. Nobody reads it (check it out though if you’re interested, you can find it here: https://amzn.to/3g0fgvk) so I don’t know if people liked it or not. It’s been out for years, I guess a Christian trying to make it a standard religion in a society that frowns upon that isn’t good enough to read. I thought it might start some controversy (it deals with religion) but I just want people to like it.
Anyways, going off on a tangent. My new “format” is micro-fiction in days, so I can make shorter stories come together as a better way to handle events daily, as I see fit. I don’t do everyday but like a TV show, that handles the action on that particular day that means something to write. Well In the Pit of Vipers is on Earth and the local solar system (the one we currently live in) and the conflicts therein. It’s somewhat random, just things here and there but towards the end of the book currently there is a terrorist that is trying to “punish” the Muslim Coalition for it’s existence. I’m reading a lot of books on the MIddle East recently (other than The Hardest Place, which covers my time in Afghanistan in one chapter) so I’m defining this terrorist, and how my unit works on that threat towards the end of the book.
Right now it’s slowly coming together, and it’s probably a realization that I don’t have enough data to really write the book fully yet. It’s not laziness but a case of “the pieces aren’t put together” yet and the threat isn’t that well defined other than a cookie cutter terrorist. I don’t write in the viewpoint of the terrorist so I don’t know how to fully flesh this out yet. Something will hit me I’m sure and I’ll finish In the Pit of Vipers… sometime before the next millennium I suppose.
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