Writing
I’m at an interesting point with writing right now
A bit of my writing history, for those of you that haven’t followed my blog since 2011 when I created it
(1973-76)
First of all, my first dream was to be a Professional Baseball Player
A Pitcher to be more specific
I’ve mentioned this along the way
Gave that up because I lived with a single mom, in the middle of a remote canyon
And it just would have been tough to pull off
Then in 1977 I saw the Original Star Wars at the age of 8
And I wanted to be a Filmmaker from then on
A Director to be specific
Now at some point between the age of 11 and 13
(1979-1981)
I actually started to write a book called
(Which I actually started again from scratch in 2011/2012)
And when I showed it to my dad (Who I didn’t live with, but was visiting) he told me I was a Writer
Now in say, 1995-96, being the person I was with told me they would leave me if I pursued Film Making
I suggested that I instead pursue Screenplay Writing
They would not agree to this either
Fortunately this relationship ended in 1998
And in 1999, I finally attempted to pursue Film Making
“The Realm” (2000)
Now this mainly began with some experimental stuff, like the footage above
Which was basically my brother and I and Action Figures
No Editing
Just rolling the camera with an Effect on that changed the way everything looked
And also helped to hide our hands, Lol
And the music is the Soundtrack from “Conan”
Being played out of a Music Box sitting near by
The reason the music sounds so good is that the Video Camera
Which I believe was a Sony…..
Had a very good Microphone built into it
“If Not Now…” (2002)
And then two years later, My First Short Film, “If Not Now…”
Now with this, there was Editing
But, I filmed it in an hour and a half due to my brothers’ time constraints
So some of it was kind of rough, because there weren’t enough takes to choose from
None the less, I got it into Film and Video Festival in New York
Which changed my life
Even so, after my Dad watched it with me (I invited him to go to New York with me)
He still continued to refer to me as a Writer
At the time, that kind of bothered me
Because I was a Filmmaker
But reflecting, I think there are two reasons for this
I do believe my Dad is actually an unrealized Writer
And thus that is his focus
And, I am in fact a Writer
In 2002, I also wrote my First Draft of my Screenplay “White Jade”
And a Play called “Stranger In The Dark”
And in 2003, I stepped away from Film Making
And began writing Screenplays
And in 2006, hired an Artist to convert the first few pages of “White Jade” into a Comic Book
But it wasn’t until 2011 that I finally decided to give Writing 100% of my focus
With the Creation of “The Written Word” Blog
Where you are now
And for a year and a half, I Wrote like crazy
Blog Series
Dark Rider – Season 1 (2011); The Dark Rider had set out that day to End His Own Life… But he did Not Succeed. Now with only the Company of a Mysterious White Owl, and an Elven Mercenary by the name of Largoth, he seeks out some Deeper Truth… In this First Season of Dark Rider.
Part One – Dark Rider
Part Two – Dark Rider – Return To Bas’adia
Part Three – Dark Rider – Dragon’s Claw Tavern
Part Four – Dark Rider – Corwick’s Wish
Part Five – Dark Rider – Ambush At Fallen Wood
Part Six – Dark Rider – Shores of Evalon
Part Seven – Dark Rider – Scarlet Bandit
Part Eight – Dark Rider – Enter the Drow (Dark Elves)
Part Nine – Dark Rider – Nownyhall
Part X – Dark Rider – Breached Alliance
Part XI – Dark Rider – Hunted
Part XII – Dark Rider – Certain Death
Part XIII – Dark Rider – Rumble at the Village of Mond
Part XIV – Dark Rider – Moving On… Rodomor
Part XV – Dark Rider – Heroes Calling
Part XVI – Dark Rider – Winter Come
Part XVII – Dark Rider – The Northern Realms
Part XVIII – Dark Rider – Fool of Thy Self
Part XIX – Dark Rider – Feeling The Heat
Part XX – Dark Rider – They Struck at Dawn
Part XXI – Dark Rider – Man Down
Dark Rider – Season 2 (2012); The Dark Rider has received a Near Fatal Blow at the Hand of Prouhl, The Dark Warrior of Heen… Will he survive… And if he does, will it be in time to Save His Friends!
Part One – Champion of Wogtay
Part Two – Seasons Change
Tales of The Dark Rider; It’s been two years since the defeat of Lord Embul, at the walls of the Kingdom of Wogtay…
The Dark Rider and his comrades have parted, and each gone their own way… But an enemy of The Dark Rider, has not forgotten him…
PHOTO CREDIT – Dark Assassin
Part One – The Captive
Part Two – Blood Shall Fall
Part Three – Kin
Part Four – It Ends Here
Part Five – Back Into The Dark
Part Six – Vengeance Rising
Part 7 – Dark Intent
Part 8 – Wounded Heart
Part 9 – Retribution
Part X – Head In A Box
“26 Years of Mental Preparation… But For What… I think I’m About to Find Out”
Episode I – In The Dark
Episode II – Flashback
Episode III – Sleep Now
Episode IV – The 27th Year
Episode V – A Man’s Castle? Is His Castle
Episode VI – Sanctuary
Episode VII – Back In Black
Episode VIII – Drug Lord
Episode IX – Decisions
Episode X – The Black Dragon
Episode XI – Snuffed Out
Episode XII – Quiet Times
Episode XIII – Calm Before The Storm
Episode XIV – Loyalty
Episode XV – One Step Back
Episode XVI – Changes
Episode XVII – Debt
Episode XVII – Oh No You Didn’t
The Mind Chronicles – Season 2;
The Mind has begun Taking Down the Mutant Population on his own, with the Humanitarians Close on his Heels… And the World Police Legions are doing their best to Change His Mind… Yeah Right, like that’s going to happen.
The Mind Chronicles – Season 2 – Volume One – Feed Thy Enemies
The Mind Chronicles – Season 2 – Volume Two – The 4th Breed
The Mind Chronicles – Season 2 – Volume Three – Exile (Part 1)
The Mind Chronicles – Season 2 – Volume Four – Exile (Part 2)
The Mind Chronicles – Season 2 – Volume Five – Mutant Siege
The Mind Chronicles – Season 2 – Volume Six – Population Decrease
The Mind Chronicles – Season 1;
The Year is 2075… There are but some 200,000 People left alive on Post Apocalyptic Earth, after the “Great Collision” of 2039…
And some 500,000 or more Mutants…
A Mysterious Man known only as “The Mind” has arrived in a Mechanical Machine, in a Flash of Light…
No one knows from where he’s come… But the real question is, From “When” He’s Come…
In Season One of The Mind Chronicles.
The Mind Chronicles – Volume One – The Mercenary
The Mind Chronicles – Volume Two – Nothing Stays The Same
The Mind Chronicles – Volume Three – Old Blue Eyes
The Mind Chronicles – Volume Four –Run
The Mind Chronicles – Volume Five – The Greater Need
The Mind Chronicles – Volume Six – Farahi
The Mind Chronicles – Volume Seven – Visitors
The Mind Chronicles – Volume Eight – Chillen With The Mind
The Mind Chronicles – Volume Nine – Onset
The Mind Chronicles – Volume Ten – Target Practice
PICTURE CREDIT – Fantasy Blue Eye Glow
POETRY
2013
ill Conceived – (Nov-Dec, 2013)
Lights – (Nov-Dec, 2013)
- Lights
- Santa
- Cold
- Morning Light
- Reindeer
- Christmas Tree
- How The Stockings Lay
- Sled Dog Come
- Miser
- Oh How He Works
- Nutcracker
Hope – Volume Thirteen (May-Nov, 2013)
- Waiting
- Dream Dust
- Inherently Blue
- Fall
- Like White Moonlight
- The Outsider
- Born
- The Purge
- Rapture
- Fabrics
Nine – Volume Twelve (March-April, 2013)
- Somewhere
- Tears
- Red Light
- Silence
- Wondering
- Wavelength
- One Like You
- Sudden Love
- Discouraged
- For Madison
- I Was A Fool
- Bluer
- Two Hearts
- Fire Alarms by Kaitlin Q. Calkins & James P. Mahoney
- Father
Beyond Truth – Volume Eleven (January-February, 2013)
- It’s Been Too Long
- I Miss My Friend
- Discretion
- I’m Still Here
- Dark Moon
- Spring Will Come
- Dark River
- Windblown
- Dream Watch
- Wicked Winter
- Nostalgia Storm
- Escape
- Lion
- Fair To You
- Paradigm Of Love
- Blue Glass
- Relevant
2012
Breathe Deep – Volume Ten (November-December, 2012)
- I Miss You
- Black Cloud
- Flare Of The Heart
- Black Flame
- Words Of Love
- Shades Of Joy
- Waiting For The Frost
- Tainted Youth
- Fahrenheit
- Still Blue
- Elements Of Love
- Rain In My Heart
- A Gift
- It’s Not My Fault
- Alone Again
- Quietly Waiting
- Flawless
Tranquil Light – Volume Nine (September-November, 2012)
- Voice
- Cherished One
- Free
- Sincerity
- Yellow Rose
- Knocked Down
- Black Out
- Love Is Lost
- Desolate
- Blue Lions
- Time
- Inspiration
- Take My Hand
- Travel Through Light
- Teardrops Fall
- Infinitas
- Fair One
- Dark Wind
Darkness – Volume Eight (July-September, 2012)
- Black Mirage
- Unborn
- Armored Heart
- The Wise
- True
- Proof
- Inherent
- Keep You
- Petals of Truth
- The Return
- Trapped With You
- Purify
- The Hidden
- The Truth
- Intrigue
- The Source
- Hard Heart
- Spirits Free
- Shifting Winds
Bereavement – Volume Seven (June-July, 2012)
- I’ll Come For You
- White Sands
- Inspired
- Your Shadow Will Accompany Me
- Inherit The Sky
- Sleep The Stars
- Myriad
- Pyramid of Pariah
- Dark Truth
- Briefcase
- Light
- Stream Of Light
- Petals In The Sky
- Surrender
- Quiet Mind
- Zen Rage
- Brother Down
- Dream State
Shadows – Volume Six (May-June, 2012)
- Shadow Love
- Sea Mist
- Creation
- Cool Love
- Fade To Grey
- Fallen
- Heat
- You Came
- Dark Red Bloom
- World In His Eyes
- Paramount
- Emote
- Fire Princess… Friend I Do Not Know
- Winter’s Pain
- Reconfigure
- Unrest
- Spellbound
- The Spared
- Dream Fire
Taken Heart – Volume Five (March-May, 2012)
- Fairness
- I Must Stay
- Vacant Me Loving You
- Separation
- Sad Blue Boy
- Spread Thin
- Out Of Love
- Cold As Frost
- Tears On Sleeves
- Wrecked
- Paradox
- Blue Landscapes
- Shadow
- Dark Eyes
- Spare The Young
- Alone With The Light
- Dark Rose
- Down
Tales of Old – Volume Four (March-Present, 2012)
- Sleeping Dragon
- Hands In Pain
- I Wait For Thee
- Wood
- Fair One
- Hair So Long
- The King And His Song
- The Third Wish
Rain Shall Shine (Capture the Night) – Volume Three (Jan-March, 2012)
- Blue Light
- Light From Dark
- Crow
- White Feather
- Sadness
- Enchanted
- Rain
- Fire
- The Black Journal
- Lonely Night
- Traces of Love
- Waiting
- Wind
- Courage
- The Storm Has Passed
- The Mortal Man
- The Black King
- Turning Point
- Trying So Hard
- 8 Mirrors
- Dark Haired Girl
- Calm
- Cries Unheard
2011
Winter, Lust, And Wonder – Volume One (Sep-Oct, 2011)
- Intrepid
- Dragon Blood – Another DarkJade Scribbling
- A Grip on the Darkness
- Sweet Embrace
- I Walk Through Thee
- Despair
- Some Place I Go
- Utopia
- Bleed
- Passion
- Japan – Compassion
- Exiled
- Grace
- Moon
- The Halls of the Written Word
- Blue
Dream Shift – Volume Two (Oct-Dec, 2011)
- Rescue
- Tremor
- Moonlight
- Dark, Fire… Light
- DarkJade – Ethereal Transition’s
- Little Sister
- Shadows
- The Purple Pill
- Once Wed
- Sequined Youth
- Forbidden
- Triumph
- Spiral
- Relinquish
- Red
- Blackness
- Christmas Tree
- Need
- Vast
- The Quiet One
- Love Must Come
- Disheartened
- Something Has Changed
- White Sands
- Truth
- Teardrops
And My Novella, “I Died Once“
(Self-Published 2012)
Fantasy Novel “Chess With Agatha”
(Written 2011-2012 Currently Being Rewritten)
(Written In 2012, Currently Awaiting Editing)
And Current Kickstarter Novella “Mady’s Storm”
(Written At The End Of 2012, And Awaiting Editing)
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Some of you may know some of what I showed, and some may not
But I am in a very interesting spot right now
Determining What’s Next For Me
I Want To Edit And Self Publish My Written Books
But What’s Next?
Do I Focus On Material That I’ve Already Written
Like Marketing My Screenplay “White Jade”
Or Do I Work On Whole New Projects?
I Know That I Am Happy With What I’ve Written So Far
And Though I Had To Step Away From Film Making
I Am Happy With My Short Film “If Not Now…”
This Year Feels Very Different For Me
And I Don’t Have A Definite Answer
But Hopefully All Of You Will Continue
To Join Me On My Journey
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PICTURE CREDIT – Wind Up
“I Died Once” Book Trailer August, 2012
“White Jade” (Part 1) Comic Book Video October, 2012
“White Jade” (Part 2) Comic Book Video October, 2012
“Chess With Agatha” Book Trailer November, 2012
“Captain Fire 197” Blog Series Promo Video March, 2014
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