If you haven’t figured it out yet, I am a Lord of the Rings junkie. So when I saw this picture on Facebook without a caption, I had to steal it and with my magic staff knowledge of Photoshop and add a snappy little saying to it. Although I love […]
Lord of the Rings
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J.R.R. Tolkien once said his works could not be made into a film. Of course the technology at the time was not sufficient for the grandeur of his imagination. The movie trilogy is said by some to have stripped the deeper meanings of his stories to appeal to the 15-25 […]
I visited with my sister this weekend and we spoke about my trilogy. She has a masters degree in creative writing. She has tried to read my trilogy but states all the other authors and editors do not write the way I write. That you must hook people quickly into […]
Since late 2011, I have been promoting my trilogy, The Chosen One of Allivar. The story is a mythology which requires creation, life and end of times. I’ve sold quite a few, but reviews and ratings have been very, very difficult to receive. I’ve been told it is very good, […]
I am in the midst of writing a mythology that will consist of nineteen stories. Nineteen has no significant meaning, but here is why there are nineteen: A trilogy (The Chosen One of Allivar) with the brief history of creation of ten heavenly worlds and through the first six ages […]
We live in an era of heightened preconception: An opinion or conception formed in advance of adequate knowledge or experience. In other words, we are as prejudiced as ever. No matter how hard I try to explain most do not understand the difference between a spiritually based story and one […]
Last night I found myself in a heated discussion with my daughter over my trilogy. I am reformatting the stories under my publishing company control and I am going to insert a Prologue. I truly hate prologues, but apparently we live in a period of time where readers want a […]
I just finished watching Les Miserables. Something struck me from the lyrics to the song, “I dreamed a dream” which ended with, ” Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.” This last week I came to the realization that it is not life itself that kills the dreams of […]
As a man the age of 53, I still hope to have another 25-30 years of life ahead of me. Much of what determines my age of death is in my genetics. My grandparents averaged around the age of 84. That gives me about 31 more years. However, anything can […]
[youtube=http://youtu.be/fkLrnI7SsVY] When writing my fantasy trilogy, The Chosen One of Allivar, I listened to movie soundtracks as inspiration for the most touching scenes. My favorite of all times is The Lord of the Rings movies. The movies, the books and all things J.R.R. Tolkien inspired me to devote ten years […]