This is another band that I absolutely love. It’s basically two different music forms combined into one. The mesh of styles, what I call Fusion Metal, really aids in my writing. I highly recommend these guys to anyone who finds their inspiration through music.
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by Jim
Hi all, just wanted to let you know about an exciting new book that is due for release this November.
This was my first full length Novel and really was the pathway to writing Magnifica. After 8 years of rewrites and being put on the back-burner for Magnfica due to a lack of publishing interest, I revisited Divinity, rewrote it, and broke it up into an Epic story (several short stories culminating into one.) It is the longest story I’ve ever done.
Synopsis:
How could it come to this? Why would God let this happen to me? These were questions two very different souls in very different circumstances were forced to ask.
Giovanni was a poor fisherman living in 16th Century Venice. His entire family had been lost to the white plague. He suffered through their deaths only to discover that he too was infected with it. He is now alone and questioning his faith.
The angel, Adaline, was a hero of the Celestial War against Lucifer. All knew and admired her until she uncovered a plot to overthrow the Most High. In an attempted cover up, Adaline is betrayed and cast out of Heaven. She is sent to the mortal world to face torture and death at the hands of the creatures she most fears: humans.
Their worlds become intertwined when, by chance, Giovanni rescues her while out fishing. Injured and blind as the result of her expulsion, Adaline has little choice but to rely on this primitive creature for protection against the Church, Lucifer, and God’s own decree if she is to expose the true traitor and save all of existence.
This book is sort of a religious/mythological historical fantasy. I’m really excited about it and hope that everyone will give it a look and enjoy!
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by Jim
I try to stick to the positive… so if you read my blog for writing advice or new books to read, feel free to skip over this review. No one would blame you.
Phantom of the Opera was without a doubt the most awesome music I’ve ever seen! It had everything, action, romance, suspense. and horror. After seeing it at the Wang Theater in Boston Multiple times, my first being one of the early off-broadway casts, one has to wonder, how could anything ruin such a wonderful creation.
Well… Andrew Llyod Webber found a way…
To quote an angry video game critic ‘ya done f@#$ed it up, man!’
Ugh… have you ever watch/read a story that is so great you think that it’ll be a story told for years to come. Perhaps it’s a movie, a play, or a book, where once it’s over, the first words out of your mouth are “Oh wow, instant classic!”
You think the story is perfect. The character developement is complete, all the loose ends are tied up and when the story comes to a close, everything is as it should be. It’s a perfect story with a perfect ending…
Then they come out with a sequel. A totally unnecessary sequel to a story that had no loose ends or loopholes that contains forced plot contrivances, nonsensical character developments that were totally unnecessary and offensive to the senses, and… suddenly the perfect story becomes one you never want to waste your time with again, knowing how it was continued? (Lookin at you Jurassic Park!)
Well unfortunately this happened to me with the Phantom of the Opera. As I said, this was a story was perfect, it was like an old world tragedy dealing with a demented genius who had a love for the theater. He tutored a young singer and eventually fell in love with her. However he eventually falls victim to his own madness and as a result, his love is one that can never be. Angry, he strikes back and tries to force her to marry him. When she agrees, he realized the error of his ways and releases her. It is perfect. You leave the theater thinking, “Wow, that was awesome! Even if it was the 10th time I’ve seen it. Still awesome.”
For years I think since my first time seeing it in 4th Grade, I have loved this play. It was remastered and released in a movie format (NO NOT THE ACTUAL MOVIE) for it’s 25th Anniversary on DVD. The performers were awesome, and the sets and the costumes were beautiful… again… unlike the a fore mentioned theatrical release.
Well then something awful happened… Andrew Llyod Webber, the creative genius behind this masterpiece got greedy. He decided to write a sequel, set 10 years after the original story. According to him this would be a completely new story that, while featuring the old characters and set in the same world, would be completely different from the Phantom and could be viewed without having previously watched the Phantom itself… nice way to cut out your big money maker.
Apparently he didn’t try hard enough because not only does this show feature excerpts from the Phantom, but also partial musical scores. Heck the whole story references scenes from the Phantom! HOW IS THAT SUPPOSED TO WORK!?!?
The basic plot is this… the Phantom apparently didn’t just disappear into ghost form or die, which we all thought. No, he escaped to America where he… opened a freak show carnival. You know, the same kind that he apparently escaped from. UGH!!! Then for some unexplained reason Madam and Meg Giri (reoccurring characters in the Phantom of the Opera) show up and begin working for the Phantom. Of course, by working, I mean prostituting themselves out to help pay for the carnival.
Meg, an up and coming dancer, and Madam Giri, a sophisticated ballet instructor who was clearly fearful of the phantom.
Again, for unexplained reasons, the Phantom now, 10 years later, launches a plan to lure the now-married Christine Daae to America to sing for him. He posses as a wealthy business man and sends her a letter asking her to come and sing. Well, at this point Christine is a famous opera singer with a 10 year old son and the Viscount, Raul… Yeah you remember, the hero of risked life and limb to save her in the Phantom of the Opera, the childhood friend who vowed to be there for her forever? Well now he’s is a no good drunken loser up to his eyeballs in debt and pretty much living off his wife. He apparently suspects that her son isn’t his and that she… still loves the Phantom… even though there really wasn’t any sign that she really loved the man who was manipulating her in the original play.
See this is what I mean when I say a forced sequel. You have essentially taken the hero, the man everyone looked up to, and needlessly, and unbelievably turned him into a slimy wretch who now will have to play the villainous role that he is totally ill-equipped for. Now it’s hard to watch the original because you know how this hero is going to turn out.
But wait, Andre Llyod isn’t done yet! No sir! Apparently Daae accepts the Phantom’s invitation, though completely oblivious as to who he really is. I’m not going to give everything away but let me put it this way, when she arrives, she is reunited with the Phantom, who makes a startling discovery… their son is a genius and has several qualities similar to the Phantom!!! Does that mean that maybe *gasp* HE’S ACTUALLY THE PHANTOM’S SON!?
Well Christine and the Phantom apparently think so, while Raul’s fears are coming true… Then Christine and the Phantom partake in a musical number about the magical night when their son was conceived. Wait a minute…. WHAT???? Go back and watch the Phantom! When the hell in the Phantom would she have had sex with the guy? When? When she had just met him in the dungeon at the beginning? I think not. After she saw his face? I doubt it since he wouldn’t go near her at that point! After Raul showed up? Unlikely. After he killed Boque? Hmmm… nope! So you’ve basically just created a massive plot hole in your original story!
Anyway, long story short. The Phantom uses his skills at manipulation to try to lure Christine back to him romantically. Raul in a drunken stupor bets the Phantom that he can convince her not to sing for him… the stakes? He loses Christine and their child if she sings. The Phantom pays off Raul’s debt if she doesn’t. Of course he agrees to this with full knowledge of the Phantom’s powers of manipulation. Who wouldn’t just gamble away their family? Also, the song the Devil Takes the Hindmost… really really stinks!
So at some point along the way, the Phantom reveals that he is going to leave everything to Christine’s son…. everything, meaning all the money Madam and Meg Giri worked… indecently to get for the Phantom. As you can imagine, they are not happy about it at all. Meg is especially bothered, mostly because she thought that the Phantom would love her, and it appears as though she has a psychotic episode.
Finally, the Phantom works his magic, Christine sings “Love Never Dies” and Raul leaves… yeah that’s it. He just leaves. No words, no pleading, no tearful goodbyes, he just leaves his wife and child behind! No, I’m serious, that’s it, he is never heard from again in this play!
The Phantom is beyond words happy as he has his love back. But wait, there is still one plot contrivance to go. In a fit of jealousy and anger, Meg appears with a gun and tries to shoot the Phantom. Of course she misses and hits Christine and… well that’s it really. Meg and Madam Giri don’t appear again. Anyway, in her dying moments she reveals that she still loves the Phantom and that she always has… you know, even though he lied to her, tricked her, manipulated her, almost killed her as well as the man she supposedly loved, senselessly murdered two people for no reason, and then disappeared for 10 years. She then turns to her son who is by her side and tells her the truth about who his father is. The play closes with her dying while the Phantom and his son stare at each other. At this point, the screen fades out.
My initial reaction was… WHAT THE HECK IS THIS CRAP!? You have essentially destroyed at least three characters from the original and punched multiple plot holes in the original story. Good God!
Naturally, you can imagine this travesty didn’t go over so well…
Ben Brantley of The New York Times gave it zero stars, calling the production “a big, gaudy new show. And he might as well have a “kick me” sign pasted to his backside… This poor sap of a show feels as eager to be walloped as a clown in a carnival dunking booth. Why bother, when from beginning to end, Love Never Dies is its very own spoiler.”
Quentin Letts of The Daily Mail gave the show a negative review, stating that it “is as slow to motor as a lawnmower at spring’s first cut”. He also criticized the show for lacking in storytelling and romance, stating that it “assumes that we understand the attraction these two dullards [Phantom and Raoul] have for the beautiful Christine. Could she do no better? … In the end you conclude that she simply seeks out suffering to improve her art.”
Susannah Clapp of The Observer was also critical of the book and called the show “drab” and “about as tension-filled as winding wool.” Even the musical numbers, she wrote, “never meld with the visual splendors, never give the effect, which is Lloyd Webber’s gift, of the music delivering the scenery.”
Sam Marlowe of Time Out London gave the show one out of five stars, calling it “ghastly” and “an interminable musical monstrosity”. He observes: “With its sickening swirls of video imagery, pointless plot, and protracted, repetitive songs, Love Never Dies … is punishingly wearisome.”
The show went through several rewrites and was postponed indefinitely from showing up on Broadway… yeah that’s right. A NY stage where plenty of crappy shows appear, was too good for Love Never Dies!
I would personally like to thank Andrew Llyod Webber. The wanton destruction of the beloved classic he gave us was quite extensive and complete! After watching the DVD release of this play on Youtube, I can safely say, I can never watch the Phantom again. All attempts at sitting through it have failed as I know what becomes of the characters after the curtain falls.
Check out this new and exciting work by a talented author!
For those who have not yet started my WAYS OF CAMELOT series, now is a good time to start. This weekend (Oct 17-19, 2014) Book 1 will be free on Amazon as an e-book. ROAD OF LEAVES is an Arthurian fantasy for young adults and adults. This is a great chance to try out this series.
Check it out over at Amazon:
Magic, Mayhem, and Mystery
There are no simple roads to Camelot. Thomas is a 27-year-old magician’s apprentice who must travel to the Camelot guild house for his master. He takes the Road of Leaves, an enchanted tree-lined way that shifts every night as the winds move its leafy route. He joins a walking party that includes a monk, merchants, a troubadour, and an old woman.
Thom expects a pleasant hike along the Road that was crafted by the great wizard Merlin…
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by Jim
What is it about the villain that’s so great? Why do we like villains so much… to the point where we want to see the villain more than the hero?
Well originally, villains were just supposed to be a plot device. A simple element that was used to create a plot. There was no rhyme or reason to it. The villain was just a bad guy, there was very little back story or justification for it.
Over time, that changed. With crimes like those of Ted Bundy, Manson, and the Son of Sam killings, people started to become more interested in what made a villain tick. What made the Joker become the person with the white makeup? Why did the mad scientists and engineers that Superman fought do what they did? We established they that they were bad guy, but we never established why.
That’s when we started getting villains like Darth Vader, a tortured soul who became evil over years of conditioning and crippling fear of losing the ones he cared for most.
Other great villains would then follow. Suddenly stories were full of villains who were tortured during childhood, villains who were pushed into their crimes by their circumstances, villains who initially good guys but were betrayed by the actual good guys. Often, villains are villains because of a point of view. Many villains could actually be good guys if the narrator hadn’t already established who the ‘good guy’ was.
My personal favorites are the villains that are the most like the heroes, that want the same thing as the heroes but have different methods for achieving their goals. The X-Men have perfected this with Magneto. Some would call this the Anti-villain.
So why do we like these villains? Well I believe their story makes them more relateble, harder to hate because many people could see themselves become like them should the circumstances be right. How many could not see themselves coming to the same life conclusions as Magneto after living through such horror, only to see humanity make the same mistakes over and over again?
So does that mean that the plot device, static, villain no longer has a place? Well… to a point. If a story doesn’t have room for a largely dynamic villain in a story with multiple good guys and he’s just the device to bring them all together or influence their lives, then yes, a static villain has a place, but those types of villains are becoming rarer and rarer and eventually may go away. A good example of this type of villain still being used would be Lord of the Rings. Think about it, what is Sauron’s motivation for what he’s doing? Is that ever established in the move?
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by Jim
Unfortunately, I have to say yes… hesitantly.
Fictional stories can absolutely be harmful if taken the wrong way or interpreted incorrectly.
A good example would be many of the Bible stories. The Bible was a good written by man for man. I can’t speak to who wrote the old testaments or how, but the new testament, at least as far as the Gospels are concerned, were written for different groups of people. This is why there are noticeably different from one another.
Is there historical truth in them? I’m sure there is, to a point. Like there was historical truth in Homer’s Iliad. We know that Troy existed, we know that there was a war that destroyed the city, but were there Gods and immortals fighting there? Unlikely…
The Bible is similar in that while I do believe that Jesus existed as any good Christians do, I believe that he was crucified, and I believe that he rose from the grave, some of the stories may have been exaggerated or made up for the purposes of creating parables or lessons for people to live by. Keeping in mind that all of the canonical gospels were written well after the death of Christ and far beyond the life expectancy of his Apostles.
Yet knowing this, how many have been killed because of these stories? How many wars have been fought?
(Again, this is my personal opinion, I know that there are those out there who interpret the Bible as historical fact and I am well aware that I could be wrong.)
Another good example are the fairy tales that we know and love. Disney is a good example of this as they have recently been taking flak for altering the original stories and watering them down (Removing the Little Mermaid’s suicide, removing the part about Cinderella’s sisters cutting their toes off… and don’t even get me started on Frozen…)
How do these harm us? Well…
For starters, I don’t believe in love at first sight and I don’t know very many people who do. Now you can call me glass half empty kind of guy, and maybe I am, but I prefer the term realist. Some of these stories paint a dangerous picture of how relationships are supposed to go. For one, painting women as an unequal part of the relationship, the damsel in distress, and the guy always being the one to save her is especially worrisome, and I’d like to illustrate why.
Guys and girls, we all suffer from a complex, more so than most of the previous generations, that may stem from some of these stories.
We here in the news all the time about a girl getting beaten by a guy, or fleeing for her life, and battered women shelters being overcrowded. Many people ask how they get themselves into those situations. Why do they go back to an abusive spouse or boyfriend. Why do they even give that guy the time of day to begin with?
Well, there are many reasons, most of them psychological, but also conditions like children or not being financially stable, but let’s focus on psychological for a moment.
In most cases, at least in my experience from the friends that I’ve had, the idea that he really is a good guy if you get to know him, or the idea that the woman thinks she can change the guy, or he wasn’t always like this, comes up a lot.
Most of the time when it comes to this, the girl sticks with him because she sees something there deep down that if she can bring out, will make the guy an upstanding person. The ability to see something in someone or something that no one else sees is a wonderful gift, but it can also be a very dangerous one at that. The reality is that most people can’t be changed, even if they want to. Nature is a hard adversary to combat.
This is one of those areas that some… albeit less thoughtful people will say that the woman brought it on themselves that they should have known better. Well maybe, if they saw it at the beginning, then they should have run the other way and quickly. However, if they didn’t see it, then it’s a lot harder to get out of once you’re already knee-deep or beyond. Again, the fairy tale goggles come into play here too in that they may see the man inside the beast. (Beauty and the Beast Reference.)
Guys, we are not immune to this. We’re not. Where women go for the bad boy in order to try and change him… we do the same thing, but in a different way.
Many girls, even if they don’t realize it see themselves as Bell and that guy as the beast. Guys, we see ourselves as Prince Charming. Laugh all you want, whether you realize it or not, it’s true. Where girls go for the asshole, guys go for the… for lack of a better term, the girl who has been damaged in some way.
It’s always the same story over and over, a guy meets a girl, get’s to know her, finds out that she has either a troubled past, cruel or abusive parents, or some psychological issues. Does that make us go running? Should it? Well that depends. Unfortunately for many guys, on some level, we see ourselves as the hero who is going to be the turning point in that person’s life and we start trying to build said person up and try to restore confidence, break the hold a bad parent has over them, or try to help them overcome a psychological issue. The result in too many cases is that the guy who is trying to be the hero, the guy who is trying to help, eventually in the eyes of the girl, becomes part of the problem. The end result is that the girl takes the new-found confidence or strength and using it against the very person who tried to help. Thus pushing that person away and sending the girl back to the downward spiral such as the abusive party that they were trying to break free of.
In the end, you’ve got the opposite of the desired effect, and both parties comes away damaged.
Now, does this mean that the damaged girl or the bad boy are unworthy of compassion and love? No, absolutely not. What it means is that the person who chooses to be with them can not try to change them. Help them, but don’t push them into it. Accept them as they are and go from there. It’s unfortunate, but it is the reality. You can’t change a guy and Prince Charming doesn’t exist.
So that’s it, now are fairy tales 100% to blame for this? No of course not, nature, nurture, and… yeah in some cases, stupidity also play an affect, but that doesn’t mean that the stories we tell our children shouldn’t be examined en mas to see what kind of damage that they could be doing.
Anyway, leave a comment, let me know if you think I’m right or if I’m way off!
Catch you on the flip side!
-Jim
In my opinion… YES!
Though there really isn’t any evidence of it in any of the books. The movies make it more than apparent.
There is no doubt about it. It’s not really apparent in Lord of the Rings although the look on Galadriel’s face is of concern when she discovers that Gandalf has fallen.
Not only that, but the way they react to each other during the White Council (especially when he first sees her) is even more evidence.
But really, the only proof I needed is this video:
Now, is it possible that I’m thinking too much into this? Yes.
Could they have just been really close friends? Absolutely, but I don’t buy it.
Let me know what you think. Am I right or wrong?
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The answer SHOULD BE a resounding NO!
If Magnifica or Divinity were ever made into a movie and it stunk… my book would still be sitting on the shelf, available to read. The movie will have done nothing to it.
That said, if a book was turned into a movie and the movie turned out to be better than the book (happens, though rarely), then it could lead to disappointment in the story.
Nothing but the truth!
Web ads. Ugh. Flashy, annoying pop-ups and distracting sidebars; exhortations for products you don’t really care about; “targeted” pitches for lard clarifiers and chimney collars and one weird trick that will extend your life indefinitely in exchange for your first-born child. We all kind of hate online advertising, and yet internet ad revenues have reached $11.6 billion in the first quarter of 2014, according to one report. Eleven billion dollars. Eleven. Billion. So I guess someone must be clicking on them, right?
With the launch of Dark the Night Descending, I wanted to see if maybe I could expand my audience beyond the current reach of my small (read: tiny) social media presence. I chose three different publicity methods: Facebook newsfeed ads, Goodread sidebar ads, and a Goodreads book giveway. I’m here to report on my results and answer that burning question: is it worth paying for advertisements?…
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by Jim
Not all characters come from the same place. Not all are based on a person we know and not all are created directly from our minds. Some characters are taken from bits and pieces of other characters, perhaps a personality trait, internal demon, or other factor is taken from a third party source and incorporated into a brand new character.
In a previous post, I mentioned Lia’na. Part of her personality and reactions to certain situations came from my life… some, but not all. The rest was just my own original creation.
The above image is a character that I’ve written into one of my other stories… or perhaps a couple of different stories. From left to right; Darth Malyse, Xaphan rough, and Xaphan final. I created these concept images as I worked. I’m using this as an example of how I drew upon an old character that I created to make a new one.
The first character, Darth Malyse, was a character that I created for my friends’ Star Wars RPG. She was a young woman who was once a Jedi Padawan, but became disillusioned with the Jedi order. No one knows where she came from or who her parents were. All they knew was that she was a force sensitive and a particularly powerful one.
She was forbidden from learning about the dark arts, though she viewed the teaching as essential in order for Jedi to be able to defend themselves against the darkness, and on her first mission away from the Yavin Academy, she falls to the dark side and murders someone.
Malyse Personality:
She is young and angry. Her abilities and dark tendencies made her stand out and earned her the scorn of almost everyone at the Jedi Academy. She is extremely powerful, but has a tenuous hold on her emotions. The result is that she often is unable to control her powers. She despises most Jedi and views that as imperfect impostors of the what the Jedi order was during the days of the Old Republic. Her one weakness is her friend, her only friend from the academy, Thaidani. Circumstances force her into facing him down. She is far more powerful and easily defeats him, but each time, she finds herself unable to kill him. She finds herself constantly fighting between the darkness and the light. It’s a struggle that would eventually culminate into one final showdown where she has to choose a side and her decision could result in the death of Thaidani.
This was one of the more dynamic characters that I’ve ever created. She was everything I wanted in a villain, but I knew that her story could never see the light of day in published form for 2 reasons;
1. I couldn’t afford the Lucasarts royalties.
2. My story fell outside of what was considered ‘canon.’
So I abandoned her all together.
I admit that this haunted me for a while. I wanted to use this character in some form and eventually came up with Xaphan. I borrowed some information on this demon from an earlier religious source that dealt with the Celestial Wars in Heaven when writing one of my stories and then built a dark angel, borrowing nearly everything from Xaphan. So now she was a youthful angel that didn’t have control over her abilities… but that didn’t make much sense for this story.
So eventually she turned from being a young angel with no control to a more matured one who had control, but was very powerful and very wise… then it went back to her seeming youthful, but still brilliant… needless to say, I went back and forth a few times.
The end result:
Xaphan –
A skilled military leader and tactician in the army of the Most High (God). She faced off against Saint Michael and almost won. She is angry and extremely arrogant. She functions under a code of honor, but still sided with Lucifer. Her only weakness is a human soldier that she met during her time on Earth.
As you can see, some of the elements are still there, but much has been changed from the original.
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by Jim
Is being a good reader required to be a good writer?
Surprisingly no. You do not need to be good at reading to be a good writing. Some of the most famous writings were the work of people who were literate and passed their stories down through orally. Homer, the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is considered by many to have been blind.
This is part of the reason that most states require both a reading/comprehension and a writing course for teacher licensure. They are two different things.
Now does being a good reader help? Well it certainly doesn’t hurt. Being well read gives you the advantage of having several sources to draw from when it comes to organizing your ideas. If you’ve read multiple books, chances are, you know how to write and organize your thoughts in a way that works, because you’ve seen it done before, many times.
Another advantage is that you’re most likely a lot more learned when it comes to spell, grammar, punctuation, and paragraph creation. This part is a source of contention however. Many would say that this is the job for an editor.
I can understand both sides of this argument, but I would make the case that while, yes it is an editor’s job to weed out spelling, grammar, and potential continuity errors, editors are human, just like the writer. They can make mistakes and they can miss something. This is true even if you have more than one person edit your writing. Case and point: The less mistakes you make, the less chance there is that the editor will miss something.
How is it not necessary though?
Well think of it this way, can an illiterate person sit down and tell a child a riveting story that he or she had heard from their parent? Can they organize their thoughts and use their imagination? Yes! However, they would need someone to write the story down for them. Now this is an extreme example, but it goes to the point that being able to write and tell a story doesn’t necessarily go hand in hand with reading well.
A new story of fairies from a talented writer. Give their page a look!
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I’ve been very inconsistent with blogging, which is the result of my mind being in a flurry over the fairy story that I’ve been writing. This is a first for me (a fairy story, not going into a little hovel for days on end as I focused on writing) and I finally decided that I wanted to post a small piece of the story. Nothing very big yet. I don’t believe in sharing too much of a story before it’s written, as I can lose inspiration very quickly if that’s done.
Admittedly, this is a very rough draft. I’ve written it in the form of a role play, using present tense and mostly dialogue. No decent description has been added, but I’m not concerned about that right now as I shall work all that out later. My main goal has been to get heart…
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