Gone Till Feb. 1st – Relaunch expected then…

Sorry I’ve been out of touch. My life is now busier than ever, and the fact is that baseball season/work isn’t even around yet, so I can’t imagine how busy it will be when that time comes around. I can’t wait for it though. Photography has kept me busy, as it’s now a class I’m taking. Maybe I’ll put some photos up.

My writing has slowed to minimal, which is the way I want it till I offically kick into high gear again Feb. 1st. That’ll also be the day I’m launching my new myspace for my authorial self, hopefully building up some hype for me as an author.

So stick around till then. For now, take it easy and if you’re in LA, stay dry!

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Cheers,

Jared

Project Static

Project Static

Ladies and Gentlemen, the madness that is Static has begun. Click and gaze upon a revolution in the way books are written!

Seriously, just have a look at this cool project I’m working on now. It’s the first fully internet based collaborative book.

Keep an eye on us: we’re going to be big.

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Cheers,

Jared

A New Project

Last night I was doing my usual banter with South African author Wogan May when he asked an interesting question. It’s a little too early in the morning for me to remember it exactly, but to paraphrase, he basically said, “You know what would be cool? If we could do a collaborative book.”

So, thus, a new writing project was born. But not just an old project, no, not with us at the helm of an idea.

We’re not using the old fashion style of paper, pencils and pens.

We’re not even going to be using the likes of Microsoft Word either.

We’ll be using a three-way combo of googleTalk, googleDocs and Skype. Once done with the novel’s post work, we’ll be self-publishing on through the highly-acclaimed internet based publishing house Lulu.

We think this is the first novel to be developed, written and published completely by way of internet.

So there you have it.

Right now we’re developing the plot through googleDocs. Make sure to pay attention to my youtube channel, so I’ll start updating it as soon as possible.

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Cheers,

Jared

I’m Still Alive

I’ve been and I’m going to be busy for the next few weeks as this semester of college finally ends.

I wrote quite a bit while up in Crestline over the Thanksgiving holiday, and it’s followed me home. My long 6 month stint with hazy ideas is gone. Everything has become clear. Today I met with my former creative writing professor and we discussed how I can get published…I alos dropped off the prologue/first 3 chapters of my original work, “There”.

So for now, I’m in my writing studio, writing away.

Cheers,

Jared

Youtube Update – How I Became A Writer

I’ve added a video to my authorial youtube account. I talk about how I became the writer I am today.

It can be visited by clicking here.

http://www.youtube.com/thatauthorguy

Enjoy it. Comment on it. Just let me know what you think of it.

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Cheers,

Jared

I’m now on Youtube

So I’ve been entertaining the idea of making a Youtube channel about becoming a writer for quite some time. Today, I finally went through and got one.

You can reach it by clicking here.

I’ll be trying to update everyday, and it’s going to be an in depth look at what it takes to become a writer and my long road ahead in regards to being published.

Hopefully it’ll become something big, but only if you guys help me out!

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Cheers,

Jared

“There” – The Superperspectivistical Novel

After seven months of development, including two whole months devoted to creating a theory on the relationship of infinity and zero and a month on the idea of “superperspectivistical thinking”, I have finally unleashed what I’m hoping will be my “breakthrough” novel onto FictionPress.

If I get it published, it’ll obviously have to be taken down, so read it while you still can!

“There” – “In the highly theoretical realms of the mind, infinity and zero take on new meanings, Dragons hate being stereotyped and superperspectivistical thinking is the way to go. Throw all conventional thinking into marked containers to be recycled into soda cans”

Chapter 1 is in the works at the moment, so you’ll just have to enjoy the Epilogue for now.

Those “Invisible Jitters” are coming back to me, and I have great delight partaking in them!

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Cheers,

Jared

Minor Surgery Pt. 2

Yesterday’s minor surgery on my left big toe went very well. It ended up not being an infected ingrown toenail; it was just a normal ingrown toenail. It had grown approximately 1/8^th of an inch into my toe, and in order to cut it out my doctor had to remove some of the skin surrounding it.

 

That’s what made post-surgery yesterday so much more interesting than last week’s post-surgery Friday.

 

Last week all I had afterwards was the inability to walk on my foot and a feeling more of annoyance than pain. But last night, it was something completely different.

 

Thanks to the fact that skin had to be removed, the annoyance was gone and the pain had checked-in for the evening. I have a tolerance for pain that is well above average, but for whatever reason or another, the pain of this surgery was nearly unbearable last night.

 

It was a sharp pain in my big toe that would spread down my foot and into my heel. It felt like someone had stabbed my toe with scissors and dragged it slowly down my foot. It was bad enough to cause me to have problems sleeping (plus, having to keep the foot elevated put me in an awkward position. I’m a stomach sleeper, not someone who can get to sleep easily on their back), so I ended up taking some Tylenol PM. I didn’t end up sleeping anyhow, but at least I wasn’t in pain for a few hours.

 

Couple this with the Formula 1 team I’m pulling for, McLaren, losing all its Constructors Championship Points this week after they were caught spying on Ferrari and the fact that I haven’t been able to write decently for the past month and a half and you’ve got one frustrated Jared.

 

Jared mad!

 

Jared smash!

 

Jared is confused: he has hurt himself in his confusion.

 

But, if there is a silver lining to all of this, I’ve had a lot of down time to look inward and be my former self of introspective thought. Boy, did I find a lot of thing I need to change and fast. Bad eating habits, cursing, getting my patience back and some other things are at the top of my list.

 

“Invisible” passed 100 hits on fanfiction.net. Huzzah!

 

If there’s another thing I’m happy about, it’s some damn good music I stumbled upon. A group with the peculiar name of “Godspeed You! Black Emperor”. They’re an instrumental rock band much like “Explosions in the Sky” but have been around for longer than them.

 

They make some unbelievably beautiful music. They write their music in movements, much like how classical music is written.

 

I’ve got a blog in the works talking about all the different cars I’ve used in my stories, so be ready for that.

 

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Cheers,

Jared

Writing, Baseball and Monza

Well my friends it’s that time again where I come in and talk about things in the world I write about.

 

It’s been a long time since I blogged purely about writing, so now I’ll make it a short time.

 

Chapter 2 of “Invisible” went up about 24 hours ago, and it was nearly 2,500 short of my target word count. I figured it had been nearly a month and a half since the last update, and I didn’t want to make it two.

 

500 words per day was my original target, and I haven’t been able to reach that point. I could blame it on work, college and could go as far to say that since I’ve now been able to control my ADHD off of my medication, I have lost just enough focus to prevent me from writing.

 

Yes, I have ADHD, and yes, I use to take medication for it. I was allowed to stop at the beginning of August thanks to the progress I showed in several trails of not taking my medication for a week.

 

But no, I’m not going to pin the blame on anything but myself. I have not motivated myself enough to sit down and should be doing a better job. It took me a month to realize this, but now I’m back in a groove and have written at least 300 words tonight towards “Invisible’s” next chapter.

 

All it takes is that little voice in my mind saying, “Lazy! Get yourself in gear! Like, Ferrari gear!”

 

So here I am now 200 words away from my daily goal.

 

Progress on “Invisible” hath resumed.

 

 

Today was the first day in a long time where you didn’t sweat while outside. In case you don’t live in So Cal or live here and under a rock, since the beginning of last week, temperatures have pushed passed 100F. Monday was the peak, and it hit 107F on the mercury where I live. Downtown Los Angeles was near our mark on the mercury, which even temperatures over 95F are rare in summer. It’s now about 25F cooler during the day, and at night you can actually describe it as “chilly”.

 

Tomorrow I’m visiting one of the guys who got me out of my shell when it came to writing. I use to be very quiet about writing, but not after I took Creative Writing and had him as a professor. So a visit was in order anyhow.

 

The Angels are sticking it to baseball like never before. I’m saying we now have a 85% chance of reaching the post-season. So If we don’t, it’ll be a shocker.

 

The day after tomorrow is the beginning of Formula 1’s visit to Monza, Italy. It is the fastest track on the F1 circuit, with the cars peaking out around 235mph several times during the long straight-aways that dominate the course.

Here’s a video of Felipe Massa’s qualifying lap from last year’s race at Monza. Hopefully this will give you an idea of the speeds, technicality of the driving and the sheer g-force a driver goes through during this race.

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Cheers,

Jared

Clueless at Best

I seriously have no clue what to write anymore on this blog. I mean, my writing’s progress has slowed to a bloody halt because it has. I’ve gotten nothing accomplished…until today.

 

It was a typical August for me, which means it wasn’t fun at all. August is usually the month that my “high on life” ends and I have to end up taking the next few months to rebuild it.

 

The inactivity in my writing also carried over into running/cycling. Course, I’ve now contracted my second ingrown toenail in less than a year. It’s frustrating because I’ve literally done everything and them some of what I was told to do to prevent it from returning, but lo-and-behold its back. What makes it even more frustrating is that I can’t run.

 

Yeah, I should be riding my bike, but alas, the front rim is warped, causing it to rub against the front brakes when it rotates and slow me down considerably. The way I ride is much like how Lance Armstrong rides, which is with a high cadence, which is the cycling term for the revolutions you make with the pedals. Armstrong on average is somewhere near 120rpm on his pedals, and I aim for that when riding, but I can’t since my bike is semi-busted.

 

I’ve also made up my mind to invest in a decent road bike. I’ll be dropping a little over a grand into a bike, but its well worth it.

 

 

A video of Lance because he rawks so amazingly.

Been listening to a lot of U2, Explosions In The Sky and Boards of Canada again. I’ve also gotten into Kanye West thanks to his song “Stronger”. He was kind enough to collaborate with Daft Punk for the song, and included them in the video for the song. Anyone who uses Daft Punk and recognizes them like that is on my good side.

 

So yeah, writing hasn’t been all that good lately, but I think broke through my mental barrier today because I drilled out about 300 words in less than an hour, which in case you don’t know much about writing, that’s quite a burst.

 

I want to talk about how I’ve been feeling lately, which is purely amazing, but I think I’ll save that for a later blog so I can get back to writing.

 

Bye bye.

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Cheers,

Jared