I edited my cover as you can see before this post, and I’m not sure
if I’m satisfied with it. I posted it separately because I rushed it so I can
show it to the writers of the KDP forum. And they’re right in many things so I changed
a moderated amount of thing on the cover.
As you can see, the first “Last Disceptarix” cover is blurred beyond
reason. Their comments included that and also the absence of contrast between
the texts and the cover art. I remedied it and hopefully it would be suffice
for now. The book two is coming up, all I have to do is edit heavily the last four
chapters and light-edit the entire book again and draw the chapter arts and the
book cover. That’s a mouthful, yes, but I estimate it’ll be finished a month
from now.
Why am I saying this? Why am I saying the book 2 would be published
soon?
Because the cover of book two would be based on the style of the
book one. My mind is in a storm in thinking of a replacement for the cover of
book one. But if ever I haven’t thought of another good cover, I’ll just think
of a witty way on how the cover of book 2 would work.
In case you’re wondering, I also draw. I’m a self-taught artist before I was even a poet, before ever I’m a writer. My drawings
is pretty much sweet stuff due to the fact that I’m not yet that experienced in
using photoshop. I usually do traditional but photoshop produce crisper lines
and vibrant colors.
Here’s some of my amateur work.
TRADITIONAL:
DIGITAL:
All of my works (the good and the bad) is in my DeviantArt
account. It records my progress as a self-taught artist. If you want to check
them out just click here—or not. :D
Let’s talk about “civilization
types”. Now what is this “civilization type”? There are four actually, now
before anything else I will ask for your forgiveness if there are some grammatical
errors in this post; it is because the time I am writing this. It’s quite
rather late so my mind by this slice of time is in a haze.
Now, where was I?
Ah, the
civilization types. There are four and this was categorized by a Russian Astrophysicist
Nikolai Kardashev:
Type 1: those
harvest planetary power.
Type 2: those
that can harvest the sheer power of the sun.
Type 3: those
who can utilize the power of an entire galaxy.
Why am I discussing
this to you? I presume you are wondering why such a writer like me ever take
interest in these kind of things. Well, because in this kind of thing I find
wisdom. Sir, or madam, we are Type 0. But there is a good news, we are going to
type 1.
Here’s Professor
Kaku to explain it clearly:
I like what he’s
been saying in all honesty. Type 1 and all of the ascending civilizations are open-minded.
Us? Well I think there are many but the opposite is likewise.
Divisions—
For me that is
the right word, the divisions of religions and cultural narcissism and other
things that is narcissistic in essence. At once glance on could see who these
people are. But there are also wise people, those who are diplomatic, and they
are in every culture too. There are the ones who accept change, the ones who accepted
the earth is round and the sun is the center of the galaxy and not the earth.
For those who oppose them they do no hate or harm, they just agree to disagree in
different views.
Essential narcissism
don’t just agree to disagree and keep the peace, they push what they believe
even they know it isn’t right or don’t have a proof on what they are believing
in. We could do anything about really because once you attempt to imply your
own views, (only imply, not sear to their brains) they will turn calmly manic
and attack you in hurtful terms and pseudo-intellectual discussions.
Anyway, why am I
saying this? I don’t know really, maybe because I see many close minded people
day by day. I’m a writer, we conveniently observe people: their gestures, the expression
of their faces, how they act if they see something unconventional for their
taste. Of course we also hear discussions, prying (I won’t sugarcoat what really
I’m saying) eavesdropping. It’s actually refreshing every time you do it.
Now how to end
this post? I have nothing in my mind now really, I guess the lack of sleep is
taking its toll… so I’ll just be simple.
I thought a lot about this
because I’m getting the feeling that my original title “The Divine Wheel” was
sending a wrong impression on my book. It’s too (like I said before) holy and its
contents do not practically swerve to that point. It’s like any YA to adult fantasy
novel. It has almost-sex scenes and other element that make YA a YA.
It is now
called “The Last Disceptarix.” It has been my strongest title this mind of mine
could think off, the only problem to it as to why I didn’t chose it was because
of the word Disceptarix. Who knows Disceptarix? Do you know Disceptarix? I bet
not! That’s why I had been thinking twice.
But now that’s
the title of the first book of Trinity Nexus.
Here's the edited cover:
The sales are
down. And I won’t whine because it’s my only book posted on amazon. The second
book would be I think two month from now. It’s the prequel to my ever so
awesome book (<give me a slack an let me think my book is awesome) entitled “Solace
of Truths.”
Got a nice ring
to it, huh?
Anyway, I need
to sleep now. I had a long day and my grammatical skills are on it’s lowest so
sorry for the typos and the whatnot if there’s any. Sigh*
There’s something bothering me
lately, and it’s not the expired bread I ate the other day. It’s about
brilliant colors donned by nonsensical things. I noticed that people like,
well, flashy things, even that under those flashy things are a stupid meaning
that makes you scratch your head from temporal to occipital.
This post, as
you can feel, would be a rant; a rant about movies and the eye candies alike.
Let’s start
with movies, and I promise you I’ll try to be diplomatic about this.
Have you seen
the Iron Man 3? I bet you did, who haven’t? It has all the great action scenes
and Tony have a freaking robo-suit every grownup man loves to have. It’s a
blockbuster hit, I know but I have a big problem about it.
After the movie
and as I was walking with my mind still wrapped around the movie, I told myself:
“God, I never expected that to happen.” And it meant in all the bad ways you
could possibly imagine. The director, well, mass produced the film to suit for
the general audience. The villain became a big joke and the story fell flat in
a very cool and fashionable way.
So what am I saying
here?
I’m saying that
the movie didn’t stay true to the fans of Iron man since the very beginning.
The writer of it I think became lazy and uninspired to bring justice to every
character in the lore. If you look closely, now not at the movie but the
viewers, one could see the psyche the general population has about the “inner
beauty” concept.
A book is
always judge by the cover, no more no less. In the trailers of the Iron man 3,
there have been lines the Mandarin said: “Do you want an empty life or a
meaningful death?” nothing like that escaped his lips during the movie. The advertisers
or whoever in charge in the promotion of the film made a false take of the
content of the film.
Sad really,
very sad indeed.
The inner
beauty is really hard to find. One can look at the advertisers and one can see
what I mean. I guess let’s add the big time publishing houses (just because I’m
in the book business). They do everything in advertising to present their
newfound great book of the century, but they follow trends. No not follow
trends but create the trends. They control
everything that makes an indie author that have a beautiful book obsolete for
the readers.
It’s like the
movies. Say the “Godfather”, the film company treated it like a piece of trash
until it became a huge hit. Same story for “Rocky” and other films that had
passion from their creative crew. Today most of us (including me) like all the
shiny things and explosive CGI, shaky cameras and shouting on the screen—those are
the films that hit the box office… shiny. I’m not saying all CGI movies are
only filled with air because there is a slightly recant movie that I like that’s
full of CGI and its District 9 (great underrated film by the way,) I’m saying
the writers of those big budget films should have a spine for art and not just
the money. But we have to admit it sooner or later that it’s always about the
money, am I right or am I right?
And so how
about the art?
They’re
everywhere. Good films, good books, good art… It’s up to people to find them,
to not to judge the book by its cover and go through the meaning embedded in
any art.
(P.S: out of the topic but i just want to say I very much like San Cisco. Here's one of their song:)
