update... sort of... kind of

A new day and yet a while since I have written anything useful on this blog. So, what’s new with me?

Nothing much.

Yeah, that would be the shortest blog ever huh?

Ok, well I have been getting back into the writing, as well as set myself up for 2011. I had recently purchased World Horror Convention tickets for my brother and I. We’re going to Texas! The hotel is booked, so all we need to do now is start saving for our plane tickets and get some extra scratch for spending money. But the money will come to us easily and effortless. That I know! (sorry once more I am explaining part of the secret, but every time I say that line, I find money!)

I have also developed a new character for my vampire series. An immortal by the name of Chimera, her name means precisely what it entails to. But details of that will come a little later, all I can say is that she is African, and the Savanna is her domain. But she isn’t alone….

I am still waiting very patiently to hear from the publishers. I have said that in all my other blogs. It was one month and two days ago when they wrote me to explain they were catching up on some reading and I should have a reply in two weeks at the latest.

I have been tempted to write them, trust me I have fought myself constantly wondering if I should send them a friendly reminder. Yet there is a part of me saying wait. Just wait and see what happens. I know from what I have learned on author’s panels and not to mention from my experience at the World Horror Convention in 2007, that it is considerably rude to write the publishers and press them for an answer. It hurts your chances of getting published, and I don’t want that. I don’t want to be a pushy writer. I have to remember they get hundreds, thousands of manuscripts. And I am a novice writer. No work of mine has ever been published yet. So I am not going to blow my opportunity here by writing and asking if they want the rest of the book.

I have a goal though. By the World Horror Convention in Austin Texas, 2011. I will be a published author! Be it short story or my novel series, my work will be in a book.

In the mean time, I have been on my twitter account if anyone is interested. Nothing earth shattering I have to report, but it will be the first place I announce any big news.

I find it strange that the summer has just blown right by. Believe it or not, I am going to be 26 in the next few weeks. But the bright side is that I am going to spend my birthday at a concert with a fellow music fanatic. I have always wanted to see Disturbed live… and for some reason, I can see David Draiman as one of my immortals. I just love the way he looks and the piercings he has makes him bring out the best of my creativity… then again, I got half of the cast picked out for book when it’s made into a movie.

Well, that’s all for now from me, more updates soon, I promise!

Until then…

Stay thirsty.

Wouldn't it be awesome to have your own theme music?

I never really thought about it recently, yet I do believe I have to thank wrestling in general for the idea.

My characters have their own theme music.

That’s right I said it! But hear me out.

I find when I listen to a piece of music, it matches the persona I am trying to configure to a character. It also depends on the song too. I have a very… wide taste in music. One day I could listen to the Toronto cast of Phantom of the Opera, next thing I know I am listening to Disturbed and Silversun Pickups. I just find that music helps me find out whom I am writing about, it establishes personality and sometimes their emotional state. Recently, I found three songs that describe one character. Due to different aura of events that occur in the character’s life three songs could summarize everything they have gone through and what they become out of the situation.

But I am also thinking, if you were to introduce a character…

Enter the WWE inspiration here.

When I watch the superstars come and go, all of them have music, at first it’s just a little something to get them started and for the fans to know who they are. But as they go along, develop and become living personas, their themes also change with them. One that comes to mind happens to be a personal favorite. Kane. Big red guy that use to come out to haunting organ music, and then BOOM pyros.

It got your attention really fast.

But then he evolved. The first bit of his music was dropped, and his introduction became the booming pyro and then his music. Start off with a bang, and they will all jump at the sight of you. Trust me, I learned that the hard way and I am a person who doesn’t like loud noises. The music changed a few years later to something more rocking, yet was changed back five years later to similar organ music he had before.

It was what got the ball rolling on the idea of a character matching to music.

Most of them have been figured out and have their tune. But also music can help write a story. A song recently inspired me from Nightwish called the Poet and the Pendulum. I have written the bones of the story, but I am letting it rest until I can figure out a proper way of writing out the concept.

Music can have the most interesting effect on people, can’t it?

Well, that’s all I have for now. I will write again soon

Until then, stay thirsty.

surviving the weekend

Ok, it’s about time I start talking about my vampires again.

First off. Happy Birthday to my Big bro Ryan! He turned 28, see Ryan, you are more than half way to 50 now! HAHAHA!

Ok vampires.

Some of you may not know, but I work at a movie theatre for the time being. I survived the rush of the Twihard fanatics. Eclipse came out this past weekend! I am not a Stephanie Mayor fan by any means, in fact in a last blog I freely confessed how I would mock her writing. But I am not going to do that here, it’s not fair and I would be no better than the people who made fun of my writing in high school (deep breath)

Ok, the real reason why I am writing this blog is recently, I found myself just about finishing the bones of two books. Problem is these books are not to be released until later down the line. My series goes in a certain order, yet I found two of my characters have been more than verbal. Not to mention the ideas seem to just flow out of me for them. One is on trial, the other is writing about his life.

Isn’t it strange though? I have all these ides for books later on in the series, and yet, I haven’t even started on the second novel! Hmm, perhaps I need to rework the order or have something go in place of the original idea I had in mind for it. After all, sometimes the ideas don’t come because they aren’t ready. Or I am holding myself back, waiting for the right reason to writing.

(A publishing contract could get the creative juices flowing, don’t you think?)

I am rather excited and looking forward to hearing from the publisher I submitted to. I feel really good about this, and cannot wait to see what comes of it. My friend Alexandre Tuis is also excited. The artist who created Dante for me, we got to talking and I told him that when I am published, I would be delighted if he would create my book into a graphic novel! His talents and my story it would made for a fantastic series I believe. Time will tell, and I have a great feeling that wonderful things are going to happen very soon.

In the mean time, I am going to see what I can bring myself to create, what characters will come to life and tell me their story. What fights there are to win, and enemies to make in the vampire world.

(Not real ones of course!)

Until next time my friends, stay thirsty.