“When the researchers looked specifically at authors, they found that they are overrepresented among people with schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety syndrome, and substance abuse problems. Authors were also almost twice as likely to commit suicide as the general population.” – (http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/10/study-writers-are-twice-as-likely-to-commit-suicide/263833/)
Writer
Writing Update October 2014
This is a quick update just to let everyone know whereabouts I am with potential books. Since I’ve started back at university my pace has slowed a bit due to the workload but I am still making fair progress.
For those of you wondering about book two in ‘The Sword Summoner’ series, both it and book three have been written as a first draft but are in need of a lot of editing and changing. This is because I wrote all three back to back then went back to ‘History Repeats’ and basically re-wrote it so many of the story details in the sequels no longer match up. Continue reading
Video games as Writing Inspirations.
Back at the dawn of literature people who could write books could only draw inspiration from their own lives or from the verbal tales and folk lore that had been told to them. As writing became more prevalent, authors could draw more and more upon the work of others. It is as the famous phrase goes: “To write you have to read”. This was the status-quo for many years until the advent of the moving picture. With movies and television came a new way to tell stories. With these new, popular narrative devices, the audience to began to change. Things needed to happen and they needed to happen fast to keep people’s attention. Continue reading
Our Father
God. The Father, the Son and the bastard ghost
The mirage in the sweltered landscape of humanity
As true as anything in a false world
Of false people who wander through life
Like sheep to be flocked
Wish away our problems
Wish away our responsibilities
To dwell in the darkness of our minds
Lit by a flickering bulb of yellow
When the sun is just outside
Who are we to deny the Lord
We the animals grown beyond our bounds
We who are gods and madmen
Warped mirrors of ourselves
As we are warped mirrors of Him
And He is a warped mirror of us
All powerful in a powerless world
All seeing among the blind
All knowing to those bathed in ignorance
Never forever the one and only collective
Love is the sacred soul spread thin among us
Eternal like a legal contract wrought from toilet tissue
The Lord our savior
Our Creator
Our creation
Our damnation
Free will gifted as a catch twenty two
Excuses for abandonment
Blood and flesh is wine and bread
Artificial constructs created to appease our wants
Needs augmented to suit our tastes
A need for answers embodied by our minds
To fill our forms and child like search
For guidance from the wise infallible parents
We left behind to become who we are
He who burns cities, floods worlds
And requires the blood of children
This thing that we call Father
This king of men who died for our sins
Yet still we suffer and always sin
We hate like we love
With a passion burning from unnatural fires
Yet never do we stop to think
To think is to find thoughts that we fear
And fear is to realise we are but beasts
Beasts in the dressings of a civilised society
Under a civilised God pissing enlightenment
Like the Bible cursed rich who piss money to the poor
God’s chosen children orphaned
As their father is dragged drunk to the insane asylum
Babbling at the walls
Screaming for a mother never had
Lost in a sea of faith that none can know
Because who could know the unknown
The flows of life and death
That bind and separate us in chains of fate
Chains that we as humans make
To live, to die, to procreate
Beneath the eyes of Heaven
The eyes so misted by the time
Between each blink eternity
How could we comprehend it all
The vastness of the universe
And how could the universe possibly feel
Comprehension of an ant in space
An ant, a man, a race
A myth to our own imagination
An idea blowing in the wind
A cry to God and Allah and Buddha
And to Thor and Superman and Santa
And the ghosts who lurk in the peripheral vision
The visions of madness and glory and destiny
The ravings of the lost souls
Desperate for a hand to hold
‘The Sword Summoner: History Repeats’ Chapter One.
Here is the first chapter of my book to give y’all a taster. It does get darker and more ‘Fantasy’ oriented, I swear. Enjoy.
000 000 000
1: An Average Day Gone Astray.
Birds scattered as the old morning bell began to toll, its deep echoes ringing throughout the ancient city of Pastrino. The noise was met by stirrings as the city below began to awaken and the people rose from slumber to begin their day’s work. All except one that is: Trey Sted. He was still fast asleep like he was most mornings.
People were amazed at how he could sleep through the morning bell because it could wake up everyone else in Pastrino, even those on the outskirts of the sprawling city. Ironically, his house stood in the shadow of the bell tower on the wide hill that marked the centre of the city. It left any who were that close to the tower with ringing ears when they chimed, but Trey never even stirred from his sleep.
“Trey, wake up! Trey, get out of bed!” his mother called from the doorway.
Trey did not move. His cheap woollen cover was wrapped tightly around him like a cocoon even though it was the middle of summer.
His mother called again. “Trey, get up now or you’ll be sorry.” Still he lay motionless. “I warned you, Trey.” Continue reading
A new challenger enters.
A module at university required us to create a website about our editing projects so I thought ‘What better than my own book?’
But I went above and beyond that simple ask. I acquired myself a badass domain name. No ‘.com’, ‘.co.uk’ or ‘.org’ for this guy. Nope. ‘.ninja’ all the way. Who wouldn’t want to click on a link ending in ‘.ninja’? Boring people, that’s who.
So what is this new site for when I already have a Twitter, a Facebook and a Website. Well this will be my central hub, my main professional presence where I can rant and rave to my hearts content and hopefully draw some others into the madness too. This should be your number one stop for any ‘Sword Summoner’ news.
So, tell me what you think. Until next time, peace.
Matthew Roys 