Who is the Yellow Man?…
Tag: ghosts
Go for Launch!
“Yellow Man” launches tomorrow on Amazon Kindle and paperback! Pretty cool, I wrote Yellow Man in November 2023 for NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month. And now here it is!
Tomorrow (June 1st) is the official launch, however you can Pre-order Now on Kindle! Why wait? when you can wake up tomorrow with a fresh new book to read!
Also don’t forget to leave a rating and review! It would mean the world to me!
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I have always liked that saying. I don’t know why. Maybe I enjoy duality. As I poke my head out of the cave of 2023 into the dawning of 2024 I am looking ahead for a great writing year. I have some great intentions, both long-term and short-term.
I will pause here and do my obligatory reflections of 2023. I’ll start with the fun stuff, I published another novel “Emergence Ascended.” I Wrote a novel for NaNoWriMo, which was a bucket list item. (Now I feel like I can legitimately say I am a Novelist.) I Did an interview on Youtube to promote my new novel (It didn’t help, but it was a fun experience). If you follow my social media accounts you may notice that I do not do the random selfie post as I prefer to stay in the background (Introvert stuff) but in the spirit of self-promotion I powered through.
There is probably more highlights of fun things in 2023 but sometimes I want to keep things for me. That being said there was some interesting things in 2023, just to keep it spicy. The big one is a series of events starting with a road rage incident, our vehicle got a nice bullet hole. Sent it to the bodyshop for repair, of which there was a break in and OUR vehicle was stolen to commit a crime. It was recovered a month later with a group of homeless occupying it in an alleyway. Toxicology report deemed it hazardous and it had to be ‘totaled’ by the insurance (we didn’t want to drive a Meth car anyway.) Replaced the vehicle with a new one from the insurance money. Whew. But that is not all. A month later a windstorm took out a tree, causing it to fall onto our home, and, Guess what?… The new Van. Yup. Lucky it was a glancing blow and our Insurance (again) fixed the repairs for that (No we did not take it to the same bodyshop) But wait there is more. Our upstairs bathtub cracked and flooded the garage. SO now we have a shiny new bath room remodel (that we are still paying for at the cost of 400$ a month)All in all, though it was a financially and mentally stressful year, we survived, and I still think the good outweighed the bad as far as 2023 goes.
Whats next? I have some very good intentions for the year coming up. First on my agenda is to finish “Yellow Man.” the novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo. There are some good bones in the story, and I am working on fleshing out some details and adding things I missed or neglected in the first rough draft. Who knows how long this process is going to take me, but I am optimistic I can get it finished soonish.
I have several more stories I want to get down. Most are just thumbnail thoughts, and don’t have names yet. The “Bigfoot” story is next after Yellow Man. I love Cryptids and am excited to get that one rolling. I have two possible endings rolling around, I guess I will decide when I get there. Another one is the Will-o-the-wisp story. I want to get that one done before the BIG project. The Big Project is a storyline that will turn into a series (more than likely) with some vignettes here and there. There is a great setting that I thing I can create a small little world around with different adventures to play with. But this one I am going to give a lot of thought while I finish the other three stories. I want to get those out of the way because I predict that the big project will consume a few years (at the least, unless I get bored or distracted, which is probable)
Of course I will keep on keeping on with the blog. I will jot down some more short stories for your enjoyment. I am still compiling short stories for my book “30-minute Shivers.” A collection of short horror stories.
The Audible project, I intend to start recording (for realz this time) on Sunday mornings. I can enjoy my new “recording studio” and give you my least cringy narration to Emergence Collective on Spotify.
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Interdimensional or many worlds?
This is a repost since it occurred to me that the headline would have made me skip it, too.
So, I have been thinking about characters for my next book, “The Yellow Man” (working title). It is basically a ghost story, and the main characters are a group of paranormal investigators (trust me, it’s not that boring; I got something up my sleeve). One of the characters is a hardened skeptic (I am not trying to follow the Mulder/ Scully trope, either). So, to get into his head and see his point of view, I have been thinking hard about the paranormal, its ideas, and explanations. I keep coming across a concept thrown about willy-nilly, and I do not think that people understand what they are implying. I know what they mean, so I don’t correct them (it’s pointless and unnecessary anyway because I get what they mean). The term Dimensions is in relation to our reality, our ‘world’, the universe.
Typically, it’s a statement such as “What if they are interdimensional?” or “They come from another dimension”. They can be ghosts, aliens, fae folk, whatever. It bothers me because of my personal interpretation (I am not a physicist). My rant is that two different ideas are trying to be mashed up together to get a result. It kind of a confirmation bias by ignoring how physics actually works (remember, I am not a physicist; if you are, PLEASE ‘splain it to me like I’m five). So, let’s explore these two ideas. 1 is can you actually travel from dimension to dimension. But we have to understand what we are even talking about when discussing dimensions. It is exactly what you should be thinking. A dimension is something that can be measured. And that is the important thing. MEASURED. Length, width, depth, etc.. all can be measured. Time can be measured. We perceive the 4 dimensions since it is our habitat. We call it spacetime. Let’s explore how dimensions stack up and interact with each other.
A 4D spacetime can be seen as a combination of a 3D space and a 1D time. A 5D space can be seen as a combination of a 4D spacetime and a 1D extra dimension. And so on. Also because higher dimensions can have features or aspects that are not present or visible in lower dimensions. For example, a 2D plane can be seen as a combination of two 1D lines, but it also has properties such as area and angle that are not meaningful in 1D. A 3D space can be seen as a combination of three 2D planes, but it also has properties such as volume and curvature that are not meaningful in 2D.
To illustrate this point, let’s imagine how a higher-dimensional being would interact with a lower-dimensional world. Suppose there is a 2D world that is flat like a sheet of paper, and there is a 3D being that can move above and below it. The 3D being can see the entire 2D world at once, but the 2D beings can only see what is on their plane. If the 3D being touches the 2D world with its finger, the 2D beings will only see a circle that appears and disappears on their plane. They will not be able to perceive the depth or shape of the finger, nor the fact that it belongs to a larger entity.
All that being said (getting back to my character and I agree with him) is that if ghosts are from another dimension, we would either not perceive them as we can not perceive a higher dimension, or if they are from a lower dimension, they would not be able to interact with our 3D world, AND they would not be aware of our presence either.
That is my rant. Am I off base? Do I even make sense? Let me know in the comments, and give it a like.
Hand-prints of Darkness 