Persistence Together

The regular reader of this blog will know that I don't post to it very often. That shall have to change. I haven't figured out what routine works best for me, but be advised that I mean to get more after it.

Persistence is the word of the day.

Lets have a human moment right now. Me and you. You and I. Us. Lets shed all the superficials, the nets of time and space, the lies of nation and race. We are one. Whatever brought you here, and whatever brought me here, I'm flippin excited for it.

I'm honored to have your attention, and so I will not waste it. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr said that all wealth comes from common wealth. We are all in this together. Not just in the way that we all share the same world. Not just that we share the same cosmic heritage. Not just in the way that everything we know and love was forged in a star.

We are all in this together spiritually.

We are all walking our own path. Not toward some end or goal, but simply God living through us. Mirdad warned against saying "I am God" but instead asked us to realize that "God is I". We are here to enjoy each others company and flourish in a bountiful universe.

But instead we fight. First we fall by fighting ourselves. We don't accept responsibility for our own lives. We fight ourselves by dividing up what we consider Me.

Then we feel we must prove that my Me is the best. So we fight one another. But in so fighting we only bring immeasurable suffering to ourselves. 

We lash out because we forgot the truth. The truth that we are ALL ONE. Once you realize this simple fact, everything becomes clear. You stop fighting yourself because you are exactly where you should be. You invest the energy you wasted on fighting yourself in building something for your higher self.

You stop fighting others, seeing your eye in their eye, your heart in theirs. How can you fling an insult or curse if you know it will only strike you? No, instead you will flood the world with compassion and peace.

Love and Understanding. Those are the words of tomorrow. I love you all. Together we are going to change the world.

A new year, a new novel

Last year I started the year thinking I would be writing short stories all year and end it with an anthology I could publish, but now a year later I have my first novel instead.

Being the big picture sort of guy that I am, I am glad I allowed myself to be flexible and switch from the short stories to the novel. Having it behind me now I can honestly say that I think I made the right choice.

And it still feels surreal, as though a dream became reality and I can't tell if I am going to wake up. My soul is in some small part flying around on the internet.

But I'm not done. I want to create more.

I have already begun work on the second novel of my life. I am still in the world buiding stage, because this book will be the foundation for a new universe and I am head over heels excited to share it already.

The landscape and geography are based on my grandmother's home country of Ecuador. The politics and technology of the world will be based on those in use during the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens.

I have always adored Greek history, and I have wanted for a long time to learn more about Ecuador. I need to pour out some of my souls emotions and explore a part of my own mind. I hope that what I create is entertaining and enlightening.

At very least, I will have expressed another fractal of my heart.

You only have today.
So don't let it go to waste.

P.S.
If you haven't otherwise been exposed to it, here is the link to download my novel. For free. Or read it from the webpage. Either way, I hope you enjoy it. :)

Www.rabbitrevolutions.com/intrepid

Three Reasons to Read HUNTING ARTEMIS

1. It's a fun ride.

It was a ton of fun to write, and from the initial reports, it's fun to read. Give it a try.

If I disppoint, tell me why. I wont take offense. I will learn.

Then come back sometime and try something else I write. I will only get better. :-)

2. You believe the world can get better.

We just need to reorient our perspectives. We need to cooperate with one another.

This is human evolution happening.

Everyday. People are waking up. Things are changing. Its dark out, yes, but the Sun is rising again. I see it out there. Hearts and minds.

Changing. Growing. Loving. Embracing.

Oneness.

My book is about that, I promise.

My novel is a love letter and a break up text to humanity, all wrapped up in an retweeted tweet and a facebook thumbs up. Of course that last part is up to you.

I wrote this book by myself, I am publishing it on my website by myself. The reason why is because I want to share. So if you like what you read, I would like it if you shared.

3. Honestly I just hate marketing.

I'm not interested in clicks, ads, sales or trends. I don't want to make obnoxious posts or spam links to my site. I just want people to read my book and tell their friends about it. I want you to be my marketing.

You believe in cooperation and a better tomorrow. Me too. Lets talk about it more. Lets get people thinking about it more.

Let's share the things that make us think differently. Let's repost and retweet things that encourage us to believe in ourselves.

And most of all, encourage everyone to

Be Awesome.

I did, and I wrote a book.

What are you gonna do?
I'd love for you to share it with me. :-)

If you haven't started it yet, its over here:
http://www.rabbitrevolutions.com/intrepid/

Touchdown for my Heart

I am screaming. In my head.

Completely freaking the Hell out. I did it. I wrote my first novel. Its a thing. Its on the web this very instant and that excites the living heck out of me.

I'm not joyful for the attention, though, I'm just incredibly blown away by my own achievement. Ever since I was a kid I wanted to write a book. And now there is a book floating out in the web that I wrote.

That's flippin awesome. Do I think it will be read? Sure! But the real reason I am so excited is because it just feels good to have it out. Like catharsis, this book feels like a weight has been lifted.

Almost like football.

First down. You wrote a chapter. Nice pass.
First down. You edited the chapter. Nice run, there.

Now where is the next first down marker?

I'm already working on this years novel and I'm pretty excited to explore that world, but right now I am just so glad that I have something to hang my hat on. Something to remind me what effort and persistence is capable of.

A symbol.

For my heart. How it weeps, how it thinks, how it hopes. But a symbol nevertheless.

What that symbol means to the reader is entirely their concern. What it meant to me was a sense of personal freedom.

A belief in myself, and a symbol for progress. "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." A symbol of triumph, of ingenuity and hard work.

So if I'm on that football field I just want to celebrate with my team for a second, because I just scored a touchdown. I wrote a novel.

And in a few minutes my mind will be traveling to the next place I want to share. Because one touchdown is never enough.

:)

Attainable Goals

One of the big lessons I learned in the last year has been to set up attainable goals for myself. I began the year hoping to write a short story per month, and I am proud to say that I succeeded there.

Sure, the short stories happened to form up a novel, but my goal was still met. I got four short stories and thirteen chapters for my novel. Next year I want to have similar success.

Goals only are beneficial while they motivate you to stay on track. When goals - especially unrealistic ones - go unmet it can tear down your momentum. Goals that are met serve to uplift and add energy to your trajectory.

This is the first year in my life that I have had the opportunity and the time to truly attempt my dream of writing a novel. And now that I have the first draft finished, all I want to do is share it.

I hope you guys enjoy my first work. It came together better than i could have imagined, and I can't wait to explore the universe more in the coming years.

Responsible Passion

I wish that art was a process as regular as lunchtime.

Even if you have no idea what the cafeteria is serving, at least you know that its serving something. Not so with the work involving art. I have been trying for the last year or so to get myself into habits and rhythms that would facilitate my artistic expression in more robust and efficient ways. Somethings have worked. Others have not.

During this whole period of learning (which is ongoing mind you) I have learned some important lessons. One of the most important concepts that I have come across has been the subject of responsibility. It isn't enough that I want to write. I have to make time and effort to write.

Time is something that I have to sell to a corporation for the right to live with a roof over my head and food in my stomach. Effort is something that I waste on every manner of entertainment. But at the end of the day, I am finding time to carve out of every day to at least think about my novel. I feel responsible for my work, the deadline (that I created) has been on my mind since I first created it.

My first novel by the end of the year. I started this year thinking about writing a short story per month, and now I am closing the year with a novel. It seems like that was eons ago. The plot for the novel popped into my head while I was writing the first two short stories of the year and I think that the strength of the main character is what drew me so head over heels into the project.

I am now writing the final chapters of that novel, and I have discovered so much about myself and my passion in this last year that I can't help but be amazed at how it all unfolded. I discovered that what had drawn me to my main character is exactly what has drawn me to writing in the first place: I want to make this world a better place in some small way.

My passion comes with the responsibility to carry out my goals.

It isn't enough anymore to say that I have a great idea for a novel in my head. After this year, I will have written my very first novel. Of my life. My whole life, writing novels was the only thing I had ever had my heart set on.

For the opportunity in life and in mind to do my life's work, I thank the Gods Above and Below.

For the opportunity to share my passion, my art and my thoughts, I thank the internet, and you.

May the tweeting commence

I'm a terrible website manager.

Sure I can create one. But managing it? That's really not my thing. Its been almost a year since I made a video, plenty of months since I wrote anything here, etc.

But I get it. This is just for me anyway.

Its practice. This whole thing. Life.

So long as we are learning thats what matters. I just feel like as a society we aren't learning good things. We are learning to lie, cheat, steal, murder and disrespect one another, in new ways in new seasons every single primetime.

We should be learning about love, compassion, Truth and Law. These things free people. Which means there is little reason to think most people would even want them. Freedom is tough. You have to be responsible.

But that goes back to learning, doesn't it? Are we learning to be more responsible? I hope so. I suspect so. There are many paradigm shifts occuring at this very moment.

They always are.

That's deep, dude. Put that in your blog. People will probably tweet you and you'll be on CNN or something.

Ok, brodude. I just did. May the tweeting commence.

You don't even really know how to tweet. You just say things into it and sometimes sound comes out.

I'm sorry for arguing with myself, but I don't really plan or edit these things. I just delete the sentences that I don't like every once in a while.

But mostly, I'm trying not worry about it.

The only thing on my mind is my novel.

Which, I will have you know (yes you, Google bot!).that I am on the verge of completing my first draft of said novel.

Friggin. Awesome.

I know, I remember saying something about doing a short story every month and I actually was meeting that goal (4) when this idea hit me. I have written 12 chapters in 8 months so that's pretty good for me.

It will be the first novel I will have ever completed.

I hope people like it, I really do, but honestly I am just so damned overjoyed to have the fracting thing off my mind and onto pages.

Its freedom. Which brings me back to that point I trailed off from. Freedom means responsibility. My freedom makes me responsible for tweeting this nonsense into the intersphere and getting back to work on my first novel.

I doing the only thing I've ever wanted to do, which is write.

I love life, I hope you do too.

Have an awesome day.

=:)