My name is Harvie Alexander. I'm a writer by trade and a gamer by night. . I try to entertain you, grab your hearts, shake them around and possibly crush them only to put the pieces together again through happy endings.
I also might have just lied about the happy endings part.
With all this manual labor, my brain needs some more exercise
It is the start of a new year, and all I can think about is:
How much did I actually create in the year of 2013?
The answer is the same as any other artist, writer, or creator of any kind: not enough.
With the move to Indiana, writing took a far back seat in priorities. I had to look for a new job in a completely new state that I was very unfamiliar with, and surprisingly, the only type of work that I can find quickly is warehouse (aka the worst manual labor of your life) work.
What is this? I actually have a legit 7-3pm job? Oh, how much has changed since I was in California.
However that doesn't mean that every idea I've ever had just seeped out of my head. In fact it's all still here, in my head, screaming to be written (or in my case, typed) down and come alive.
2014 will be the year. After a serious renovation of my entire life in 2013, I'm ready to put all of my free time towards writing and creating. No matter how big or small each project will be, they WILL get finished. Even if, god forbid, nobody reads anything that I write. At least I will know that I completed a project.
It is going to take some serious determination, but I feel like this is my year to finally get my projects out there. I will do my best, and I hope that everyone who is in the same shoes that I'm in does the same. I will be rooting for everyone who is trying to create something and get it out there. Good luck to us all!
I haven't written anything here at all lately. To be honest, I've been dealing with some life issues lately, but all things seem to be slowing down for now, while I enter the next stage of my life. Since things are at a relaxed pace, I thought I'd update everyone on what has been going on lately in my creating universe.
First, the biggest change: The name change of my project. Previously called the "Deadsol Chronicles", it is now renamed to "Rotrian Chronicles". The explanation for this is simple: Deadsol is mainly the center of only one story. All four books in the chronicle deal with one race, and it's four different tribes. That race is known as the Rotrians. The Rotrians, and their remaining tribes are a huge part to the entire saga.
So why did I name it Deadsol to begin with? Well, I wont lie to you. It was just one of those things that came up in a dream of mine, and I ran with it. There are times where I make obscenely bad name decisions. I try not to make too many of them (considering I make enough mistakes and bad decisions already) but they happen. I'm glad that I caught this one before I grew too attached to it, however.
Second, I had to change the name of the protagonist in one of my stories, Arclight. The name was always meant to be a place holder until I could find a better name to call her, but the name stuck around for much longer than I thought it would. Even though I've given her a name now, I'm not entirely sure she will have the same name when I release this story publicly. The name feels right, but that doesn't always mean that it is right. For right now though, the name fits perfectly and I can continue writing without worrying about her name. (I tend to get hung up on the smallest things).
Third, is that I've decided to save my biggest story, Arclight, for last. This decision came upon me while I was forming the other stories in my chronicle. Arclight is my biggest story to this day, and it is the center story that pulls all the others together. It is the center of the web, the spine of the book, and without Arclight, the Rotrian Chronicles would never be complete. Despite it being created first in my mind, it will be the last story I write.
In the meantime, I am working on the smaller story, which also underwent a name change and is now called Ambivalence previously called Lilyrain). I'm very excited about my Ambivalence story; it truly holds a special place in my heart. I really hope that I am able to bring this story to fruition. So far, things have been coming along smoothly, but like any author knows, you can be 200 pages into your book and then realize you've missed something critical, and the only option is to start over.
Here's a little secret about me: I tend to start over a lot. Not because of some vital mishap or a consistency error, but instead because there are times where I feel like the story just plain doesn't work. I run myself into a hole, and the only way to fix it is to hit reset and start over.
In any case, that's all I have to update for today. For those of you who celebrated Easter, I hope you had a pleasant day!
No. We're scared. And we dont know how to function in the fear. So we desperately grasp at any kind of hope that we can manufacture in an attempt to call it "strength." -Kielo Arclight
Let me just come right out and say this -- I haven't blogged seriously in more than 5 years. I used to be a very active blogger for the Anaheim Ducks, who happen to be my favorite sports team, and began blogging about them about a year before they won the Stanley Cup in 2007. I blogged a couple seasons after that, but eventually my time was being eaten up by other life things. I wasn't able to even watch the games anymore, my life became so busy.
Needless to say, I will be very rusty, and without a proper topic to talk about all the time (like I did previously with the Ducks) I'm not entirely sure how active this blog will be.
I will, however, be posting excerpts of my stories and books from here from time to time before I release them in their entirety on booksie, and eventually (maybe one day when the great writing gods smile in my direction), on amazon. I hope you all look forward to them (and I hope they aren't too much of a rough draft on my part).
I am quite active (maybe unfortunately) on my twitter account. There is where I let the stream of consciousness that floats in my mind float onto twitter before I realize what I'm doing. It is unadulterated and unfiltered, and definitely a bit unprofessional at times, but I do not apologize for what I think or say. Not that what I say is entirely bad, but rather that I don't censor my words at all. So for those of you with delicate eyes that do not like to read foul language from time to time, I would deter you from ever looking at my twitter account ever. But if anything, I would be more active there than here.
However, whenever I do write here, my title will always specify what you'll be reading, as will my tags. If the title ever says something like Random blog or blog in general, there will be no creative writing in it. Opinion blogs will appear probably the least on this blog. Most of this blog will be consumed by excerpts from my story, and will be titled as such. Excerpt: Lilyrain or something along these lines. Just so you all get an idea of what the hell I am doing.
If you've stumbled across this blog somehow, I'd like to thank you for visiting, and I would hope that you enjoy whatever I may have to write.
