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men
a lion in all seasons . gone.
the loss to the nation's care, the disenfranchised and needy are inestimable.
A larger than life Hero leaves us. If there is heaven he is there.
and for those who filled with cruelty and hate remember that he who is without fault may cast the first stone.
the loss to the nation's care, the disenfranchised and needy are inestimable.
A larger than life Hero leaves us. If there is heaven he is there.
and for those who filled with cruelty and hate remember that he who is without fault may cast the first stone.
HTC Hero Unlocked
Stay close to your friends and contacts with the intuitive software of the HTC Hero. The ability to personalize the menu layout puts your favorite applications within easy reach. The hardware buttons on the bottom are great ways to make calls as well as quickly get back to the menu. The trackball on the bottom speeds you along making webpage browsing very easy to do.
Book Update 1
This is the first book update simply because I haven't done any previous to this. So let me quickly sum up the duration of my involvement with The Runewar Chronicles from the beginning.
This is a story Taylor has been playing with for ages, and I know very little about what it was before I really started listening to him talking about it.
I picked up the project about a year ago. I had had enough depressing experiences and such to have a developed dark side to pull from, but due to my nearing graduation and my budding relationship with Kate, I was free enough from the snares of depression to take up a project of this magnitude.
We had a lot of discussions, usually over Bajio Mexican pizzas and refried bean burritos, about what characters and settings and plot lines and social elements from our experience to include. These constitute the vast majority of the summer after graduation and into my first semester at college. One day we sat down and collected it all and I began developing the story.
Having written one novel-length story and having been completely disgusted with it, which I attribute to poor (100% absent) planning before the "production" stage, I vowed to make the planning stages of this story exhausting and extensive. I didn't know exactly what needed to be done or how long it would take, but I figured the first step to putting the plot together was to organize everything Taylor and I knew about what was happening, and build from that foundation.
One of the very first things I realized as we did this was that it was going to have to be done in two or more parts. Concentrating on the first part, the one I knew the most about, I ran my final ideas by Taylor and then over the course of the next two to four months began charting the plot and collecting the notes. Soon I had an entire three-page outline for the story, which was incredibly incomplete. All but one sub-plot was under-represented and the story-telling was turning out awful. This judgement was confirmed fifteen pages into attempting to write it.
I decided that the best course of action was to write a detailed summary of each sub-plot, and then reoganize them along roughly the same pattern as the first generation outline. I committed to do this with the story I knew the most about, and the summary ended up being six pages all on its own. Upon completion of that story line I was at a major junction because I still didn't have enough of an idea of what was happening in the other stories to form them into the thrilling plots I knew they were. I began attempting to continue the second major plot but ultimately could only get so far before my ideas ran out of steam, and Taylor was as stuck as I was.
Inspiration came from a number of sources, all of which fall firmly within the realm of Eureka. I backtracked on the second plot line and then continued with it in great detail, eventually writing thirteen pages worth of summary of a story I became even more excited about telling than I did the first the story, which had up until now dominated my vision, and Taylor's too.
The next step was to organize the two plots into chapters in an outline format, and then go back to the first generation outline and add in the other sub-plots and short stories that accounted for the details in the rest of the story. These two steps took about two weeks, which brings me now very close to the present.
Here I have to add a side-note that I was not pursuing this with any great urgency, but my year-long binge of happiness with Kate ended very suddenly, which forced me into a temporary yet deep depressive state, and the proximity to completion of the planning stages became an escape from the awful pain surrounding the events of the breakup (she wasn't especially kind or sensitive about it).So I've begun sprinting through what's left of this project because...because it doesn't make sense to live for someone that clearly doesn't love me to the same extent I love them, even if that's what I'd rather be doing.
I added details and streamlined redundancy where I could, taking a lesson from Mr. Park, who has pretty much set the bar for this sort of thing. Putting the finishing touches on this second-generation, 15 page, typed, single-spaced, EXTREMELY detailed outline (meanwhile having collected another 15 pages in detailed notes, wherein I named the two pieces of the story Book I: The Incorruptible Hero and Book II: The Malevolent Tyrant), I determined that I was ready to go into the production stage. I let Taylor read over the tentitively final-draft (it will endure more changes as I continue to write), and he approved it with very few corrections. I had tried to stay true to his vision.
This brings me up to almost the present, and therefore the actual book update.
In church two weeks ago I wrote the first pages of The Incorruptible Hero, besides the prologue which I had kept almost verbatum from the first attempt. Because I didn't have an up-to-date printout of my notes with me at the time, I couldn't write from Chapter I very well, so I began from Chapter II, which was one of the few pieces of the second generation outline that didn't have much detail at all.
Later last week I wrote the entirety of Chapter I (It's short), and I typed up and added to the first half of Chapter II. This week I have been sluggishly trudging through the second half of Chapter II, which I worry is choppy and rushed due to my lack of planning. For some reason writing that particular piece really went against my grain. It's going to need some serious editing to expand it, but today I finally finished it.
I also wrote the dedication today. It's 43 words, which while it is long for a dedication, it's funny that it gets its own book update paragraph. But it's extremely important to me because of the tremendous influence of this individual on my life and my experiences, which are the primary tributary to my ideas and Taylor's. The dedication is also truly intended for the reader as an aid to understanding why I write the way I do and where some of these ideas are coming from.
Chapter III will probably begin sometime over the weekend, and I'm excited about it because we're finally going to meet my favorite character. Because it, along with 99% of the rest of the story, is actually planned out in detail, I don't believe I will have to trudge with quite the same sluggishness as I did with II, at least not until Chapter VI, which is the next that I don't have planned very well.
Anyway, that is everything up until now. I don't anticipate other updates will be as lengthy or tedious as was this one. I covered an entire year's worth of planning. I'm really satisfied with this story and I hope it goes well. I'm fairly confident that I'm going to finish this project, even before the mission. As far as editing and the potential for publication...I'm not worrying about it yet, nor am I worrying about the sequel.
That's not to say that Taylor and I aren't brainstorming lots. His job is to remember the ideas until I can sit down and put them together, much like we did before. It's daunting to think about, being that this proccess took a year last time, but now I have an idea of HOW to put a story together. I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. Right now I'm just happy to finally be at the writing stage of The Incorruptible Hero. Writing is the fun part. Because it's fun. Thank you Mr. Park.
This is a story Taylor has been playing with for ages, and I know very little about what it was before I really started listening to him talking about it.
I picked up the project about a year ago. I had had enough depressing experiences and such to have a developed dark side to pull from, but due to my nearing graduation and my budding relationship with Kate, I was free enough from the snares of depression to take up a project of this magnitude.
We had a lot of discussions, usually over Bajio Mexican pizzas and refried bean burritos, about what characters and settings and plot lines and social elements from our experience to include. These constitute the vast majority of the summer after graduation and into my first semester at college. One day we sat down and collected it all and I began developing the story.
Having written one novel-length story and having been completely disgusted with it, which I attribute to poor (100% absent) planning before the "production" stage, I vowed to make the planning stages of this story exhausting and extensive. I didn't know exactly what needed to be done or how long it would take, but I figured the first step to putting the plot together was to organize everything Taylor and I knew about what was happening, and build from that foundation.
One of the very first things I realized as we did this was that it was going to have to be done in two or more parts. Concentrating on the first part, the one I knew the most about, I ran my final ideas by Taylor and then over the course of the next two to four months began charting the plot and collecting the notes. Soon I had an entire three-page outline for the story, which was incredibly incomplete. All but one sub-plot was under-represented and the story-telling was turning out awful. This judgement was confirmed fifteen pages into attempting to write it.
I decided that the best course of action was to write a detailed summary of each sub-plot, and then reoganize them along roughly the same pattern as the first generation outline. I committed to do this with the story I knew the most about, and the summary ended up being six pages all on its own. Upon completion of that story line I was at a major junction because I still didn't have enough of an idea of what was happening in the other stories to form them into the thrilling plots I knew they were. I began attempting to continue the second major plot but ultimately could only get so far before my ideas ran out of steam, and Taylor was as stuck as I was.
Inspiration came from a number of sources, all of which fall firmly within the realm of Eureka. I backtracked on the second plot line and then continued with it in great detail, eventually writing thirteen pages worth of summary of a story I became even more excited about telling than I did the first the story, which had up until now dominated my vision, and Taylor's too.
The next step was to organize the two plots into chapters in an outline format, and then go back to the first generation outline and add in the other sub-plots and short stories that accounted for the details in the rest of the story. These two steps took about two weeks, which brings me now very close to the present.
Here I have to add a side-note that I was not pursuing this with any great urgency, but my year-long binge of happiness with Kate ended very suddenly, which forced me into a temporary yet deep depressive state, and the proximity to completion of the planning stages became an escape from the awful pain surrounding the events of the breakup (she wasn't especially kind or sensitive about it).So I've begun sprinting through what's left of this project because...because it doesn't make sense to live for someone that clearly doesn't love me to the same extent I love them, even if that's what I'd rather be doing.
I added details and streamlined redundancy where I could, taking a lesson from Mr. Park, who has pretty much set the bar for this sort of thing. Putting the finishing touches on this second-generation, 15 page, typed, single-spaced, EXTREMELY detailed outline (meanwhile having collected another 15 pages in detailed notes, wherein I named the two pieces of the story Book I: The Incorruptible Hero and Book II: The Malevolent Tyrant), I determined that I was ready to go into the production stage. I let Taylor read over the tentitively final-draft (it will endure more changes as I continue to write), and he approved it with very few corrections. I had tried to stay true to his vision.
This brings me up to almost the present, and therefore the actual book update.
In church two weeks ago I wrote the first pages of The Incorruptible Hero, besides the prologue which I had kept almost verbatum from the first attempt. Because I didn't have an up-to-date printout of my notes with me at the time, I couldn't write from Chapter I very well, so I began from Chapter II, which was one of the few pieces of the second generation outline that didn't have much detail at all.
Later last week I wrote the entirety of Chapter I (It's short), and I typed up and added to the first half of Chapter II. This week I have been sluggishly trudging through the second half of Chapter II, which I worry is choppy and rushed due to my lack of planning. For some reason writing that particular piece really went against my grain. It's going to need some serious editing to expand it, but today I finally finished it.
I also wrote the dedication today. It's 43 words, which while it is long for a dedication, it's funny that it gets its own book update paragraph. But it's extremely important to me because of the tremendous influence of this individual on my life and my experiences, which are the primary tributary to my ideas and Taylor's. The dedication is also truly intended for the reader as an aid to understanding why I write the way I do and where some of these ideas are coming from.
Chapter III will probably begin sometime over the weekend, and I'm excited about it because we're finally going to meet my favorite character. Because it, along with 99% of the rest of the story, is actually planned out in detail, I don't believe I will have to trudge with quite the same sluggishness as I did with II, at least not until Chapter VI, which is the next that I don't have planned very well.
Anyway, that is everything up until now. I don't anticipate other updates will be as lengthy or tedious as was this one. I covered an entire year's worth of planning. I'm really satisfied with this story and I hope it goes well. I'm fairly confident that I'm going to finish this project, even before the mission. As far as editing and the potential for publication...I'm not worrying about it yet, nor am I worrying about the sequel.
That's not to say that Taylor and I aren't brainstorming lots. His job is to remember the ideas until I can sit down and put them together, much like we did before. It's daunting to think about, being that this proccess took a year last time, but now I have an idea of HOW to put a story together. I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. Right now I'm just happy to finally be at the writing stage of The Incorruptible Hero. Writing is the fun part. Because it's fun. Thank you Mr. Park.
Why do they fight me?
My intentions are good
I wouldn't hurt anyone, I wouldn't overstep the mark
I'm trying to change the world for the better, and for it to be fairer.
But it's always like a threat, people are afraid
They underestimate me.... I'm not the same as the people who pass a lot of negative judgement onto others
I'm not destructive like that... the only time I do bite back is when I feel I have no choice and I need to
And I need a free hand to change things...
Samaritans underestimated me, my ability to cope, and my judgement...
Really they just didn't see, and were afraid
How can there ever be a hero if nobody ever allows it? I know I'm not a messiah or anything by a long shot but, for example, if Jesus ever did come back as many christians expect, not many of them would accept him or anything he said, because he'd be so different than them, and they wouldn't want to accept that they were different. They'd expect him to be able to perform magic tricks, and be fundamentalist christian...as prerequisites to accepting him on their terms... and even then there'd be neverending skepticism. Nothing would change if he was the same as everyone, but nobody would accept him if he wasn't.
I wouldn't hurt anyone, I wouldn't overstep the mark
I'm trying to change the world for the better, and for it to be fairer.
But it's always like a threat, people are afraid
They underestimate me.... I'm not the same as the people who pass a lot of negative judgement onto others
I'm not destructive like that... the only time I do bite back is when I feel I have no choice and I need to
And I need a free hand to change things...
Samaritans underestimated me, my ability to cope, and my judgement...
Really they just didn't see, and were afraid
How can there ever be a hero if nobody ever allows it? I know I'm not a messiah or anything by a long shot but, for example, if Jesus ever did come back as many christians expect, not many of them would accept him or anything he said, because he'd be so different than them, and they wouldn't want to accept that they were different. They'd expect him to be able to perform magic tricks, and be fundamentalist christian...as prerequisites to accepting him on their terms... and even then there'd be neverending skepticism. Nothing would change if he was the same as everyone, but nobody would accept him if he wasn't.
American Heroes Story Contest
Law enforcement, fire, military and other emergency services personnel are our American Heroes. Did one of your parents, a sibling, a friend or even an anonymous American Hero touch your life? Who is your American Hero and what is their story? American Heroes Press is looking for the best stories about our heroes. You don't have to be a member of the law enforcement, fire, military or emergency services community to enter. You simply need to share your story concerning these unique individuals – whether funny, compelling or truly life-altering
The contest launches Nov. 3, 2008. We will accept submissions through Jan. 31, 2009. Winners will be announced April 1, 2009.
Grand Prize
One Grand-Prize-winning story will be selected. The author of the story will receive the following prizes:
Choice of $200 cash, or $250 credit toward an American Heroes Publishing package
Featured spot for his/her Grand-Prize winning story in the contest anthology
Printed and bound copy of the finished anthology
Runner-Up
One Runner-Up-winning story will be selected. The author of the story will receive the following prizes:
Choice of $100 cash, or $150 credit toward an American Heroes Publishing package
Featured spot for his/her Runner-Up winning story in the contest anthology
Printed and bound copy of the finished anthology
Finalists
Fifteen Finalist stories will be selected. Each finalist author will receive the following prizes:
Inclusion of his/her winning story in the contest anthology
Printed and bound copy of the finished anthology
All participants will be eligible to receive an electronic copy of the finished anthology.
CLICK HERE FOR CONTEST DETAILS
About American Heroes Press
American Heroes Press is more than just a means of publishing your book. It's a growing, active and innovative community of writers. Retired police Lt. Raymond E. Foster of the Los Angeles Police Department started this community in 2003. Today it offers a brand of publishing designed specifically for true American Heroes: police, military, firefighters and emergency workers. As an American Hero, great things are accomplished through teamwork. This community – this team – is here to help you achieve success with your literary work.
More information about American Heroes Press can be found at: www.americanheroespress.com
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