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Happy Halloween everyone, 🎃🎃🎃.
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I've been pretty quiet as of late, at least on this account. My artistic endeavors haven't slown, however.
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As a musician in two tributes, I now play gigs weekly, often more than once a week. Learning a plethora of songs while also promoting within my day job had eaten much of my time. I'm also running social media and marketing for my bands, which has taken away from this.
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That said, I'm quite happy with where my artistic career is headed as I'm just as passionate about music as I am about storytelling. .
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Here's the catch, I'm still doing #NaNoWriMo, and I've set my outlines up so I can go hard on this one. I may have dragged my writing speed, but the stories have been compounding in my head and I'm confident 50,000 words is not going to be my stopping point. .
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Fellow authors, Happy Writing and good luck in NaNoWriMo! .
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Authors that inspire you personally?
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I read Maynard Keenan's authorized biography last year. From an artist's perspective, his journey both is insightful and inspiring.
See, last year I beat myself up for not meeting a lot of my own standards, having too much fun and not working/writing enough. I felt that if I'd just worked harder, I'd be a lot farther, but that's not always the case. It definitely falls into that "it's a marathon, not a sprint" philosophy.
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Maynard's journey involves an undying passion for art, and a persistent discipline to keep moving. He struggled not just as an artist, but as a man trying to survive and sustain a traditional career well enough to stay afloat. He went from the army to being broke and evicted to designing the marketing layout of pet stores all while focusing on music... And he didn't even bloom with Tool until his early thirties, eventually moving on to become one of the most influential artists and entrepreneurs of his generation.
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Now he's a lot more than just Tool. His book discusses a lot of his insights and perspectives for looking at things. I even went to his book tour and you can see how those philosophies have played a role in his life and his music. Even his perspective on magic and spirituality align pretty closely with mine. Definitely a book worth reading. .
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Horror just may be my favorite genre to write. 🖤📝.
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I'm here writing my "dark fantasy" series, and one of the story arcs is just turning into plain horror as it spills out. This series is evolving to be a lot more Claymore and Berserk-style fantasy and a lot less Eragon or Lord of the Rings.
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👸 I can't wait to share it.
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I tend to be an overthinker, and that plays well into my writing career. I keep flashing back to my first book: the beginning of a series about psychics with different types of psychokinetic powers, from mind-reading, to making entire crowds experience the same illusion, to converting energy into flames. 🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️🧙‍♂️
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I named that series The Arcane Insurrection.
I didn't think of it as magic, though. I spent pages creating deep, pseudo-scientific breakdowns of how each power worked, how each type of energy worked, etc, trying to make it seem as real as possible.📖
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Now I just write books about monsters and magic, trying to convert those overanalyses to a much broader story with more believable character development. 😛

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