Branching Out and Staking My Claim

For some reason I feel like today is Friday. But it's not. I've been rearranging blogs and twitters and tumblrs for going on two days, and I feel like the week is over, that I'm rolling into the weekend and that I'm super behind. It's been 5 days since I've published another ebook and I think that I'm just getting antsy. I want to earn money, and I want to be successful, but I'm pretty sure, not 100%, but like 99, that we all hope to be successful and never want to worry about money during our lives.

During the middle of February I decided that it was time to follow my hopes and dreams, follow my heart, and any other euphemism that involves flying to the moon by the seat of your pants whilst abandoning the rest of the left-brainers. I decided to get published or do it myself, to make my own empire. I stepped into the arena of self-publishing, mind you, into the arena of erotic literature(which I'm keeping off of this blog), and I've sold more in my first week than a lot of others reported. Which I assume means I'm doing something right. So if I can move erotica and erotic romance, who says that I can't do everything I've wanted to do for the past 8 years?

I've already done it with something I thought was a joke.

In 2012, I've become an author. I've written the first full issue of a supernatural fiction webcomic. I've written the beginning of an intriguing, possibly grimdark science fiction novel.

In 2012, I plan to do the following: Solidify my idea for a webcomic and get started on it. Publish short stories under yet another pen name. Get back to drawing and start doing cheap commissions. Partner up, and do as many business related things as possible. Pay back a good friend who loaned me some cash.

"i feel like something is missing, but i don’t know what :T"

I've already partnered up with one person. Freja(the artist behind the image), a good friend of mine, is the artist of the forthcoming webcomic. My girlfriend is running her own blog, and currently helps keep me on track with story ideas and is a great reader for coherence. Hopefully, things will continue to move forward.

I almost hate status quo now. I lost a friend to his constant need for things to always be calm. For me, that's defeat. Life isn't supposed to be about status quo, because sitting and waiting for things to happen, to be settled down at 24, is for chumps. Everything needs to constantly evolve to stay fresh, and I for one, plan on being in on that.

And Then There Was Horror

Which is why I'm branching out. I write what I know and what I love, to emulate a little piece of my own fantasy based on the things that I've already seen, and the things that I wish were down on paper for everyone else to see. The genres I've dabbled in are supernatural fiction, urban fantasy, science fiction, both low and high fantasy, erotica, and a small bit of romance in my high school days.

The one thing that I've never written is horror. I watch horror movies, and the cornier, the better, but also, the more gruesome and eye-gougingly horrific, the better. I love horror premises, that somebody decides to go above and beyond the call of duty to make something miraculous happen only for it to backfire; humans meddling in affairs that don't concern them, animals becoming the rightful masters of the world through gruesome carnage instilled in them through blind rage, inky black blobs that destroy their prey in truly gruesome ways while they're being consumed.

At first I wanted Adelle's story to be one smashing a detective story together with urban fantasy, but now? The story will have the initial setup of a bleak, almost empty town that a detective story would feel at home in, but along will come Adelle, and down will come the world. My initial plan for the novel was to have my little siren play some sort of side role or be heavily involved in the plot twist. This time, I want her to be the plot twist.

Then there's the fact that I want to write some scary, gory prose that people think should be condemned.

But branching out, in the long run, will be more of an experience for me, even though I write fairly often now. So when you see me reading King short stories or Lovecraft, be wary of what you read from me.

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