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Domino is Coming - What's It About?

2/24/2021

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​Domino, Book One of The Sentience Series is coming out on March 1, and today I’d like to talk about what inspired this novella/series.

Domino takes place in the year 2175. Human beings have neural chips implanted in their brains prenatally to help them integrate with technology better, and to enhance healthcare and mental functioning. The neural chips are the first step toward integrating man and machine. The next step: create a program that copies the neural maps and information from the chips online, so the information can be accessed after the individual passes away. A program called Domino is created by two of the descendants of the man who worked on the neural chips at a small university in western South Carolina. The team has been working for years to integrate terminally ill patients into the system, and to prepare them for integration with the World Wide Web. This isn’t just the next step toward evolution, but the first step toward immortality.

Too bad it doesn’t work.

The research team discovers that the information downloaded from the neural chips isn’t integrating to Domino like it should. What’s worse, the individuals they access through the system seem to be “stuck” in the state they were in when their code was downloaded. The code isn’t continuing to build and grow as it should. Then there’s an accident in the lab, and the University wants to pull the plug on a project that they see as not only doomed, but dangerous. In desperation, one of the team members, Kasei Marculya, downloads herself into the system. Unfortunately, she finds herself in Domino with a virus that succeeds in killing her physical body. Her “code” survives and escapes to the Internet, but she realizes something shocking: Domino doesn’t work because somebody is sabotaging it. Now she must find out who and why, while trying to adapt to life inside the system. 

The theme of Domino is learning to live with things you can’t change. I think we’ve all had experiences with people not understanding that there are some things you can’t change, and you have to learn to live with them. This is an issue I’ve been dealing with first with the loss of Chloe, my companion parrot, in 2017, and more recently this past summer with the loss of my Dad. As I wrestled with learning to live with these voids in my life, I was shocked by the number of people – some of them in their mid to late 30’s! – who didn’t seem to understand the concept that not all things can be controlled or fixed. In fact, very little is actually under our control. All we really can control is how we respond to the strange nature, events, and circumstances of life. I learned this lesson when my grandparents died when I was in pre-teens, and I’ve been building on them as an adult over the past 3+ years. Apparently, most people are more fortunate than me in that regard, because they make it well into adulthood without having to deal with this ugly truth.

There’s a reason why people don’t understand it until it socks them in the stomach: our culture doesn’t acknowledge this truth, and it's one we all experience throughout life. We live in a society that believes there’s a fix for everything and worse yet, tends to cast blame when something bad does happen to you. There is a blame culture when you experience tragedy. It’s part of the reason why I don’t like to talk about Dad’s passing. People are so scared of trauma that they try to avoid it by developing explanations and even casting blame for the unexplainable.

Nobody gets through this life without being touched by the chaotic nature of the universe. We need to know that sometimes our best efforts will fail. We need to learn that experiencing failure doesn’t make us a failure. We need to know that things happen with permanent consequences that we can't and never could control. We need to learn that the unexpected happens and can throw everything we know about life off track. We need to learn how to continue to move forward and grow in the face of the unexpected. The world isn’t safe. It also isn’t predictable, or controllable. But it’s possible to still have a good life if you can learn how to live with the pain that goes with the joy of being alive.

I hope Domino helps in this regard. I’ve found that people tend to take these messages better through fiction than they do in reality. I think it’s because fiction allows them to experience the story through their own perspective, and decide how it applies to them. It holds up a mirror to let them see themselves through an outside perspective that might reflect things they aren’t able to know solely from the inside. We all need that outside perspective to help us see the bigger picture. Our tunnel vision only widens when we open ourselves up to the wider world.

Domino
is available for pre-order now at Amazon and Smashwords for $0.99. To celebrate the release, I’m also offering a couple of Kindle Direct Deals on Amazon for some of my other works (since Amazon is where most of my book sales occur). The Tanger Falls Mystery is free through Friday (February 26) and The Earthside Trilogy will be free March 1-5.

Happy reading, folks! I hope these ebooks inspire and entertain you.

That’s all today. Take care, and have a great rest of the week.

Bye!


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Three Pieces of Advice That I Disagree With

2/18/2021

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Today, I’d like to talk about three pieces of popular advice that I disagree with. The problem isn’t that this is bad advice. It’s that I so often see it misapplied that I believe telling people any of these three things ultimately creates more harm than good.

You must give up something for Lent.
Chocolate, caffeine, sweets, sugar, soft drinks, red meat, salty snacks, social media, and smoking. I didn’t find out that these are popular things to give up for Lent from research. I found out on Ash Wednesday every year, when friends and colleagues had long, in-depth discussions over what they’re giving up for Lent. Here’s the problem: you aren’t supposed to be talking about it. Your Lenten sacrifices are supposed to be a personal “fast” that takes you away from selfish distractions and closer to the Lord. If you’re loudly reminding people of what you gave up everyday, then you missed the point. I’ve found in my adult life that Lenten sacrifices have become more drama and theater than actual spiritual enrichment.

I tried giving up things for Lent, but got away from it for a different reason: I felt I was more focused on what I gave up than on what I was supposed to gain from the sacrifice. That too is a perilous distraction from the greater purpose, so I wisely decided that if I couldn’t focus on it properly, then I didn’t need to do it. You know you have a problem when complaint replaces gratitude and prayer.

I’m not saying it’s useless. This practice has survived for over 2,000 for a reason. I just hope that somebody is getting something out of it out there, somewhere, because I certainly don’t see it happening around me.

Write every day.
This well-intentioned advice that real writers write every day (no matter how good it is) doesn’t serve as the kind of encouragement that people think it does. Why? Because creativity doesn’t work that way. Forcing yourself to turn out a word count every day is treating the creative process like a thermal well – just inject more words in there, and maybe something good will steam out of it. The problem is that creativity is more like a water well: it has to flow naturally through proper nourishment in the core of the creator. If you’re tired, burned out, sick, anxious, depressed, or worried about something, then forcing out a word count every day is only going to frustrate you further because you wasted time writing crap that you’ll delete later. I don’t care what they say, quality does matter. You can’t break through writer’s block by forcing more writing any more than you can force a broken bone to heal faster. Creativity takes time and patience. If the conditions aren’t right, it won’t work, so stop trying to force it. Take a break if you need to. Trust me, the inspiration will return, and when it does you’ll more than make up for any missed word counts.

If it doesn’t bring you joy, let it go.
This is the most dangerous advice I’ve ever heard. Why? Because people don’t understand that it’s context-specific. It’s one thing to decide to get rid of that ugly lamp that you inherited form a relative that died when you were an infant. It’s another thing to make a major life change because there’s one thing that’s driving you crazy. Here’s a true story of the misapplication of this: many years ago, I worked with a person who quit a great job because she didn’t get along with her boss. Two months later, the boss quit. Of course, the agency wouldn’t hire her back for her old job or her old boss’s job, because if you’ll quit once, then you’ll quit again. She was popular too, and this one action turned her friends against her. She let go of a good thing because of one thorn in her flesh. As far as I know, she never got another job back in that place again.

I wish I could say that was the only time I saw somebody do something this drastic because of one irritant in their life, but the fact is that I’m seeing it at an increasing level. Just over the past year I’ve heard stories of people quitting jobs without notice, selling houses and moving to a new city on a whim, purchasing things they can’t afford because it made their heart skip a beat, marrying somebody after a first date – it seems people are getting more spontaneous. Unfortunately, it’s for major life decisions, and this kind if instability is dangerous. Actions have consequences, and people making these impulsive decisions don’t realize that what makes you happy today can make you miserable tomorrow. Case in point: how can you retire when you haven’t had a stable job to save up money for retirement? How can you build up equity and a solid financial house when you buy new homes and cars every two years? How will a divorce affect your personal life, finances, and family when you realize that Mr. Wonderful isn’t wonderful three months later? That’s the problem. Today’s happy doesn’t care about tomorrow’s security, or even how it affects other people.

Seriously, get rid of the lamp if it’s hideous and you can’t stand to look at it anymore, but if your job pisses you off then remember: nothing in life is perfect, and all things pass in time. Trust me, I’ve been in the same job for over 21 years. I’ve seen a lot of seasons and you know what they all had in common? They passed. So be visionary, consider the costs, embrace stability, and look at the big picture before you make a big change.

It’s not that this is bad advice, it’s just that it’s so misapplied that I feel it’s better to not give it or take it at all. But then
again, I suppose you could say the same for all advice. Anything can go bad given circumstances and/or intent.

That’s all today. Take care. Have a Happy Friday tomorrow and a wonderful weekend.

Bye!

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The Evolution of Storytelling

2/5/2021

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Today, I’d like to address a topic that I feel is important in all forms of entertainment: the evolution of story telling. How we tell stories, be it in movies, on television, or in print, has changed in the twenty first century. Most people point to Amazon and Netflix as the contributing factors for change, but the shift was happening long before they came on the scene. At best, it was the advent of the Internet that started the shift, although I suspect it was in motion long before dial up connections assaulted our ears (and nerves).

The basis of this blog is an article I read on the WandaVision series on Disney+. The author of this article addresses complaints that the series is too slow, and that instead the problem is that viewers have forgotten how to watch TV. I respectfully disagree. It isn’t that we’ve forgotten how to watch TV (or to read, for that matter). It’s that we handle content differently than our parents and grandparents did generations ago, and we handle it differently because the world is different. We have more information coming to us in a day than our predecessors had in a lifetime. I realized yesterday that my watch alone delivers not only the time, but the date, the weather, news alerts, texts, emails, a fitness tracker, calendar events, reminders, and even a timer and an app that measures the decibel level of noise in the area.  That’s all coming directly to me through a device strapped to my wrist! Do you know what my Granddaddy’s watch did? It told him the time. That’s it. If he wanted more, he had to find it himself, and that information might be dated by the time he got it.

I think we all know that we’re inundated by information, so naturally our attention spans are shrinking. We’re used to the main points being delivered quickly, so we expect it everywhere, including our entertainment. I’ve been writing for 20 years, so I can testify to the fact that the advice that plots need to move faster and you have to “grab them with action” started coming when the ebook revolution hit. It seems movies and television are the same: there’s plenty vying for our attention, so you have to pull us in quick to win the race for that precious focus. Nobody had the patience for the “slow burn” method to story telling anymore. Tell us immediately what it matters, or we’re on to the next thing. Writers are even advised to skip book prologues and flashbacks as much as possible. Get to the story, please. Nobody’s got time for setup, thank you very much.

As I said, it isn’t that we’ve forgotten how to watch TV (or consume any other information), it’s that we’ve adapted to a changing world. This, in fact, is probably the first step of our evolution in life with technology. Is it a good thing? I guess it depends on how you look at it. I like that plots are faster paced and get to the point quicker. We live in an interconnected world that doesn’t need three chapter setting descriptions, or an entire first season exploring the background and development of each character before you can actually get to a story in Season 2. I’m also a plot junkie, so of course this works for me. Others, like the author of that WandaVision article, obviously don’t feel the same way. There are still fans of the “slow burn” method to story telling out there, but I’ve noticed it usually comes with a disclaimer so people like me don’t bombard them with bad reviews over personal tastes and misunderstandings over what they’re getting.

Story telling has always evolved. I remember in the 90’s when there were complaints about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine going to a story arc for the Dominion War. They felt they were rewarding dedicated viewers, but the complaints came hard and heavy from casual viewers who felt they shouldn’t have to watch every week to understand and enjoy the show. Except for soap operas, story arcs weren’t done in TV then – now, they’re the norm. Getting straight into that arc and handling all of the other elements within it is the next step in evolution.

You can resist it, of course, and there are those like Marvel who are successful enough that they can afford to take a risk in breaking the rules, because they know their fans will come back to the next show if they don’t like this one. Actually, you don’t even have to be successful to take the risk. You can go for it, if you wish, but understand that you are taking a risk and it may or may not work. And if you’re the consumer, you have to decide how patient you will be in seeking out the rule breakers, and how gracious you will be when you don’t get what you expect.

WandaVision nearly lost me, and might still. Last week’s episode finally gave me what I wanted from the show, but I’ll admit that I didn’t hurry to watch it (I didn’t watch it until Saturday). We’re mid-season, so we’ll see what happens in today’s episode and whether I hang in there or hang it up. Hopefully, the Loki series will get back to what I expect from Marvel, and tie it all together in the ways this fan likes it.

That’s all today. Happy Friday, and have a great weekend.

Bye!


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