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- Favorite Quote
- "Thank You L. Ron Hubbard for, well, my life - for starters."
- Kent Davis ~ (yes indeed, during the great search)
(thank you to Francis Don Daniels and his works for pointing out to me my omission, for a while, of the above)
"So along with dreams of other gods, I made the all from nothing. Now I wander through lives - merely an amusing stroll along fragments of my own mind." - Dezerro Infini ~ 0-8 BE (before end)
"You suggest that I agree. No...no, I won' be doing that just now. But if ever I'm in the mood for dying, I'll look you up." - Dezerro Infini ~ (during the great search)
~NEWS ~WriterGroup MWG
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~News on top ~WriterGroup MWG below
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NEWS
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News Items List (latest on top):
* Test Published Short Story on Lulu.com
* ~Dimenzion Zero~ New TV Show Help Needed
* Correction to "AFABW Writer..." just below.
* AFABW Writer (me) gets Honorable Mention in WOTF (Writers Of The Future)
* New Magazine, "Hollywoodland Mag"
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* Test Published...
I published a short story "The Target" on Lulu.com.
Go here to view the results:
http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/the-target/6523938
Don't bother buying it, but rather wormhole on over to my AFABW blog to read the amazing and spine chilling tale for free; survive the ride if you can.
Any comments on the overall *Lulu* experience would be appreciated, and will assist me in future promotional efforts galaxy-wide on GalWeb(won't be long).
It was a breeze setting this up(free) on Lulu, and any artworks(music?) can be sold there apparently, with Lulu taking 20% of sales. They also sell expanded promotional services.
If this goes well, or at least if the sun stays lit, I'll probably publish a small volume of short stories -- or perhaps two, one in horror, and one in SiFi or SiFi cyberpunk genres.
I'll update this with progress reports or obituary notices, as warranted.
- Kilian A Mikael
(Kent Davis to you)
(or is it Kilian...)
(who to be or not to be, that is the question)
(apologies -- and thanks -- to Shakespeare)
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* ~DIMENZION ZERO~
[[Data: Hollywood Mag - see below, with my novel "Surplus Lounge" included chapter by chapter, is moving forward toward publication in Hollywood (for starters). I recently received ~Honorable Mention~ in the "Writer's Of The Future" contest. -- ~Dimenzion Zero~ is another game]]
New one-half hourTV or cable *unreality* show. (Currently there is plenty of reality to go around).
This is a “Twilight Zone” type of show filling the sad void left by the cessation of “Twilight Zone,” “Outer Limits,” and similar shows. Teleplays (needed) would be based on my original short stories.
There are three dimenzions
There is Width
There is Height
And there is Depth
Behind all three, waiting quietly, lies:
~D I M E N Z I O N Z E R O~
Welcome to Dimenzion Zero
(And oh yes, good luck)
Help (production) needed to get this going.
CONTACT:
Kent Davis
323-469-3806
kd8@lafn.org
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* Correction: "Honorable Mention" in Writer's Of The Future ends there. No more chance to win that quarter.
Soooooooooooooooo...On to the the next entry. I believe they accept rewrites of the same story. I'll check it out.
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* AFABW writer (me) just got "Honorable Mention" in "L Ron Hubbard's Writers Of The Future" contest (WOTF).
This is for the fourth quarter (July-Sept) for the 2008 contest year (the first quarter was actually Oct-Dec 07)
From this group of honorable mentions of about 100 (plus or minus -- it varies), three winners will be chosen, resulting in First, Second, and Third place for the quarter.
These three fourth quarter winners will then be competing with the other quarterly winners for overall First, Second, and Third place for the contest year.
I was going to say wish me good luck, but that's silly. Please wish me competent, well drilled writing.
Being part of this AFABW magic act is helping.
- Kent
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* New Magazine:
A new publication "Hollywoodland Magazine" is heading our way along with other comets, errant suns, and loose meteors.
http://www.myspace.com/hollywoodlandmag
They're interested in doing interviews on anyone, anything, and everything Hollywood. Send them an email via contact link on their MySpace page above if you would like to be interviewed (including pictures).
My novel "Surplus Lounge" will appear in the mag, one chapter per issue. A short version of this story is here in my blog as "Surplus Lounge" under short stories.
It's been a long haul for these guys, but things appear to be falling in place, with initial distribution planned for Hollywood.
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WriterGroup MWG
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(by KAM - Kilian A Mikael)
( MWG = Milky Way Galaxy - to help differentiate from other groups, say the Gallerian Tablet Chiselers, or the Aramin cave wall scrawlers)
-A founding member of WGE (WriterGroup Existence) - Headquarters in, ah, we'll get back to you.
~~So WriterGroup MWG now IS~~
Current Mission Statement(s):
-Help ensure lots of great writing flows out into life.
-Support artists and others in raising this culture despite hell and high water.
Product(s):
-Writers writing and completing pro-survival written works.
-Pro-survival written works done and exported widely.
For now, group guidlines are based on:
~Chapter 9 - The Writers' Workshop~
from "The True Art Of Screenwriting" by Blake Harris
Now to get this group to actually DO something....
I'll try a chant: co-conspirators, exist!
References (all apply, to varying degrees, to any writing really):
- "Drills Drills Drills" by L Ron Hubbard
- "The Elements Of Style" by William Strunk and E. B. White
- "The True Art Of Screenwriting" by Blake Harris
(http://blakeharris.com/site/the-true-art-of-screenwriting/) (free)
- "The Manuscript Factory" by L Ron Hubbard
- "On Writing Well" by William Zinsser
- "The Elements of Screenwriting" by Irwin S. Blacker
- "Writers Of The Future" (WOTF) paperback books, pro advices within
-"Legible Stone Chiseling" by Og & Ug
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Some Definitions:
Story -
(from "True Art..." above) "The bare minimum ingredients of a story are struggle, suspense and climax. Without struggle, there is nothing to arouse the interest. Without suspense, there is nothing to hold it. The greater the uncertainty of the outcome, the greater the sustained interest of the audience."
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Kent Davis's Written Works
The Answer
I knew a simple reason existed, and also I knew I now avoided viewing this truth.
It floated just out of reach, a shade behind the reality of the usual.
Then I suddenly knew.
Here I was, because everywhere else, I was not.
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Posted on November 8, 2009 at 4:17pm —
[Fwd Email] Artists and Copyright Protection (with link for action)
From: Writers & Illustrators of the Future
To:
Sent: Sun, November 8, 2009 12:09:30 AM
Subject: Artist's Letter to the President
Dear Friend,
As an author or artist, I wanted to let you know of a way you can support the protection of your valuable works by protecting the copyrights in them.
On November 16th, the Copyright Alliance will deliver a letter asking President Obama and Vice President Biden to pursue policies that respect the rights of artists with ea… Continue
Posted on November 8, 2009 at 2:12pm —
Senior Scenario (you know *something* is going on)
~Set of circumstances affecting all others near, under, over, or around it, at a certain point in time.
Two choices here:
1) Leave your head in the sand
(yes, you know **something** is going on)
2) Watch this documentary video
If ever there were a turning point in history....
The video:
(download or watch online)
"Fall Of The Republic: The Presidency Of Barack H. Obama"
(an actual imminent implosion of freedom)
h… Continue
Posted on November 7, 2009 at 8:30pm —
Lunchtime (and galactic map update)
That's Old Sol, our sun, and just another star among countless trillions in this galaxy, at the center of the spider web grid.
That's us, lingering out nearer the end of the Orion Spur, branching off of the larger Sagittarius Arm, curving out from the light tan glowing galactic core.
I hear there's a great little hamburger stand in the next spiral arm over.
I'm hungry, be back in a few durations. Leave the lights on.
Leave Earth on too.
Thanks… Continue
Posted on November 7, 2009 at 2:35pm —
IncompiTense
and then I sunk into the earth
as a seed awaiting rain,
a touch of sunlight far above the misty blue
I plodded on, with tense my devil
Future-tense: He will fly
Present-tense: He flies
Past-tense: He flew
Eventually I had it down and cold
and the pages, like dragons, I slew
Now a writer, my enemy,
grew deep within another chapter
of the novel called existence
And on parchment made of stuff
between unalike dimensions,
into a chilling little tale he wrote me… Continue
Posted on November 7, 2009 at 3:33am —
SeaDream
He could almost smell the seaside spray, cool with a salty tinge, inviting sailors with their own dreams of maiden mermaids, back to their calling, rolling with the waves.
And there he dreamed the dreams of divers meeting sunken mountains deep below rolling tides and layered fathoms called brine.
He dreamed of deep, of darkness far below sunlit sails of vessels hurled along on flowing breeze.
And there the… Continue
Posted on November 7, 2009 at 2:09am —
My Linear Moments
It seems that one of my dimensions had taken presidence and control, indeed full dominance of persistence and growth over the remainder.
And be it height, width, or length, what does it matter. For the result in all cases would be similar, but of course in differing "directions" of spacial expansion.
In this case it happened to be length.
Therefore as I stretch further and further, out to the initial spark of creation, and then, out again fully the… Continue
Posted on November 7, 2009 at 1:32am —
Departure From The Usual
In studious reconstructing of my path to this...oblivion -- is that what I shall call it, oblivion? -- in this time after time remaking of the madness...was it a thousand times, ten thousand?...I have failed to discern, via review, clearly what had transpired.
And no, it was onl… Continue
Posted on November 6, 2009 at 11:00pm —
Timar's Enrah (unfinished)
And one operating at a speed so many times beyond the concept of velocity can get restless just about anywhere.
His programmer, Timar, a genius known to train the brightest coaches of top ge… Continue
Posted on November 5, 2009 at 11:08pm —
New Game - Find Your Place In The FunMaze
- Dezerro Infini ~ (measuring the rabbit hole)
~World Control and Organization Chart~
"But my vote counts, I tell you!"
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Posted on November 1, 2009 at 8:00pm — 4 Comments
The Librarian
Tall, wide, and weathered, it opened easily and I entered a room of more dark wood and the barest gentle scent of old flowers now long dried, emerging from ancient vases of porcelain and clay.
Shelves covered the walls to the tall ceiling, filled with books.
I went to the desk, and there his head slowly raised. I set down my leather pack.
"I would like a few words of truth," I said.
He slow… Continue
Posted on November 1, 2009 at 6:30pm —
[Info] Airport Full Body Scanners - DNA Damage
"...Tear Apart DNA"
"...unzip double-stranded DNA..."
(!!!)
This high tech stuff makes X-Rays and Ultrasound look like the warm breath of a child.
I've develpoed a sudden love for the romance of trains, ships, automobiles, hitchiking, crawling, rolling, bouncing, and of course, teleportation.
And like our loving government's "innoculations", this DNA stuff is probably irreversible during a single lifetime.
=========… Continue
Posted on November 1, 2009 at 6:30pm —
Jardene
I was surprised when I realized that Jardene was writing a story about me. He had started his story off with his character(me) in the morning on a Thursday sitting down to write.
I began to realize that I could not recall anything earlier than this morning. And this was Thursday.
Then, as some guy said, things began to get strange.
I reviewed what I had written -- Jardene sitting down to write. I had described nothing about exa… Continue
Posted on November 1, 2009 at 3:11am —
Mystify
I see not rising windblown rock
but rather a desire to climb
They say a river wanders there
So I peer - into a dream of
flowing to the ocean
He returned with tired hands
brushing red dust from his boots
holding images of Mars
And I floated mystically
gazing out to cold horizon
where I saw Earth rising
Some philosophic soul mutters
sounds portraying futures
So I look around and wander
throughout this we tear asunder
while there suddenly I wonder
with a tremble at a… Continue
Posted on November 1, 2009 at 3:02am —
Inceptionally Congratulatory
The beginning
I gathered us
and they gathered we
together
in a way
as one
WHOOSH
We put stuff all there
And eventually
to tell the truth
we saw that it was not good
but it was pretty OK
and a damn sight better than nothing -
supposedly
So what the hell
Now we'll FORGET -- like the dead painter,
no one to scrape off the paint of creation
Let it all stick around for a while
Not good
But OK
So we prayed to ourself -- Yea us!
Ding Dong
amen
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Posted on November 1, 2009 at 2:53am — 2 Comments
I Am
floor of stone and ancient ore
do I settle all my soul and
far descend, forevermore
Yet hung in time, one day preceeding
warming then my soul to joy
happiness I had prevailing --
held at bay, some evil ploy
Then misting suddenly to view
chilling all through and through
there, a passing Shadow formed,
as frozen vapor morning dew
"You are!" it hurled from a soul
so cast of foreign frigid stone
"You ARE!," it bellowed all along
some stream of time lost and alone
'… Continue
Posted on November 1, 2009 at 2:36am — 2 Comments
Simple
For the less complex
I gathered everything
The large, the small
The many and the few
The wildly varied, then the orderly
The blazing fast and the plodding slow
And there I made it all...one
So large yet now so...simple
Uh Oh
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Posted on October 31, 2009 at 4:00pm —
Latest COEB
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Council Of Existence Bulletin
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To:
The glob known as Physical Universe, particularly all internal residents.
Subject:
Temporary Management Alteration
Information:
Your most recent PUCEO (Physical Universe CEO), God, has been found guilty of neglect of duty as follows:
--Failure to correct or upgrade a severely flawed and degenerating attempted creation.
Yes, *something,* somewhere an… Continue
Posted on October 30, 2009 at 1:27am —
You Are
You said little, but planned your excursions for the back sides of mountains and deep within haunted forests where photons, terrified at times, did not go.
For you are the hidden realm, where those in certain need go to hide.
And in a way you are hiding itself, hiding within yourself.
You are darkness.
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Posted on October 26, 2009 at 5:50pm — 1 Comment
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This is no modern writing but humorous story telling.
Your work is beyond this age of now wit.
Wit is the way to go. After the storm last week I saw a real rabbit in a friends back yard. These houses are built in a new housing development that used to be farms..
copy right Geneva M. Neale (Audain)
I have not won any money because when I get inspired I write and submit. I won awards and I am published in many Anthology of The International Society of Poetry
Funny!!
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