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!
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.
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.
When I was a kid, I was really into everything astronomy. Over time, I lost that fire within me, but tonight, something resparked that.
Comet 17/P Holmes.
I was browsing wikipedia for info for a paper I’m writing tomorrow, and I spotted an article on the comet and upon reading “visible to the naked eye”, I ran out with a pair of binoculars. Looking into the low Northeast sky, I found it after ten or so minutes of searching. I dragged my parents out, and both found it immediately within the binoculars.
Then, I decided to take my PD-150 (a professional level miniDV camera) out and take a few snap shots. I ended up taking video since the shutter speed was super low (1/4th of a second, the photo mode only went as low as 1/60th of a second) and captured the photos from frames in the video.
So, ladies and gentleman, here’s one of the photos I took:
Today there were at least 18 individual wildfires burning. A few have reached full containment, and several are within the 10%-20% containment range. But the overwhelming majority are at the same level of 0% containment.
I thought yesterday was pretty bad with all the smoke and ash filling up over half of the sky. I was dead wrong about today not getting any worse like I had thought.
Today, the entire sky was filled with smoke, and ash was coming down like sprinkling rain. I’m a former asthmatic (destroyed it courtesy of running/cycling), so my concern is whether ash will begin to fall even thicker tomorrow. It’s already at the point where I’m feeling terrible anytime I go outside.
Then again, I can only imagine how it feels to be any of those people who have lost their homes. I can’t believe over a thousand homes have been lost. And they saying that fire in San Diego is so powerful, that it may burn till it reaches the ocean.
These fires are unlike anything we have ever seen before.
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Cheers,
Jared
p.s. The closest fire is about 30 miles away from where I live.
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!
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!
Tonight, I had a great time…even thought it seems the Angels are faltering in the playoffs, I still have faith. Tonight was a much needed break from the stress and frustration that I’ve been feeling over the past week or so.
Tonight I attended and ran amuck at the Orange County Auto Show.
Anyone who has ever gone to an auto show with me, especially the larger ones, has told me I am a blast to be with.
I’m loud, brash and speak my mind, even if it’s in front of people who are working for the car companies I’m bad-mouthing. The inner “Jet” really does come out.
Tonight, I had a great time thanks to an exhibition of tuner cars that were also on display, and nearly fell over laughing at them.
My favorite is a tie between some late 80’s model Honda Civic all tricked out and junk like some rice-powered wonder and a new Kia Spectra with a paint job from car hell while riding on some 23’’ rims. The stock rims on a Spectra are only 15’’, so you can imagine how out of place they looked.
I think one rim was larger than the whole car combined.
But yes, I spent an excellent night bad-mouthing the Bentley and Rolls-Royce booths., complaining that they make cars that you get someone to drive you in as opposed to you driving yourself. I accused them of creating a lazy culture in the world of driving.
I also called over a man working the Ferrari booth and reminded him that McLaren’s F1 team would still be on top of the FIA’s Formula 1 Constructor’s Championship if it weren’t for a stupid Ferrari engineer and this whole spying mix-up.
I hinted to a few Buick representatives that they needed to make cars that were less…bland. I out-right criticized every Mercedes-Benz I sat in, quickly saying “Rubbish! Absolute rubbish!” loudly as I exited each one.
I got a photo of me in a Corvette convertible that I’ll put up in my next post.
Yes, I am the”show” at every “auto show”.
When I go to the LA Auto Show this December, I’ll try and snag some video of me walking around blabbing my self-important opinions on cars.
Until then, drive well my friends.
Oh, and at the Scion booth, I told the lady working it that I owned a tC, and she gave me a sweet Scion beanie. So expect to see that on me quite a bit.
Uh, I’m still trying to figure out what to put here. I mean, my blog is about me and a pursuit of my dream: to become a published author.
You’d think for someone wanting to be an author, I could write a simple description here. It’s quite simple: I’m blogging about becoming published, which hopefully people will want to follow along. Hell, maybe this’ll help out others with the same dream as mine. You know, kinda’ like a “Follow the same path” kind of thing, but not so heavy on the philosophy. Who knows, people may read this just because they find it amusing, interesting or completely repulsive. Either case, I hope they like it.
It’s going to be a long road, as my goal is being published by the end of 2008. Whether I make that dream a reality or fail to do so, I’ll be here letting you know what it’s like to try.
“Have Adrenaline — Will Travel” refers to my philosophy on life, which is summed up in a single sentence:
