Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts

Sunday, November 18, 2018

Last of the Cathedra - the new writing phase begins - six leagues and all's well

2019 cover

After a slightly abortive start in August 2018 (where I spent too much of my annual holiday time reading Haruki Murakami's KILLING COMMENDATORE) and got most of the characters the wrong way round in the first three chapters but with books of hand-written notes to fill in the narrative gaps, I'm back writing the 2020 Hertzan Chimera sci-fi novel "Last of the Cathedra".

As of this morning, prior to my jog, I a) have a fully-fledged 24-chapter structure b) the three main characters in this 'love triangle' suitably re-motivated character-wise c) a full Sunday-to-Sunday week off work to really hammer this baby good and hard for a sustained period.

I'll report back next Sunday to let you'all know how it went and what the book turned into. I can feel it in my bones, some narrative high-jinx is curdling the fungus of my writing feet.

Yes, I write with my feet. Tsugi no nichiyoubi made... ciao bambinos.






Saturday, July 07, 2018

LAST OF THE CATHEDRA - updated cover - close to beginning the DOC

final cover concept
August, it'll probably begin in August when I have a week off from work, the writing of the new Hertzan Chimera novel LAST OF THE CATHEDRA.

I've been 'letting the novel stew' since completely filling the delicious notepad I bought a month or so ago. It's like this thing now has a life of its own, and instead of adding my notes to the already-busy earlier draft of this book spanning the last three years... I'm gonna start a NEW DOC and revel in the real new moments of narrative and character discovery that 'writing this damned thing' will undoubtedly introduce to the mix.

ALL PLANS ARE OFF, now it's just a case of 'going back to basics' and enjoying the dance of fingers on keyboard... oh, here's a new (stripped back) cover design to illlustrate the New Start. Split the name in three because RA but not just that... it's also to reflect the 'three main characters' of the serial narrative, on both planets of the tale.

The third planet's right at the end but we don't talke about that, it's a magickal secret between myself and the reader.

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Hertzan Chimera novel - LAST OF THE CATHEDRA - narrative update and new cover

enhanced cover concept
you're right, this is how I plan and execute my novels...

No, this is not a new novel. 

As you'll see from the subtle update of the last cover this new novel had, it's the same novel. Well, it's a content output from the last three years of notes leading up to the writing of this novel.

"The story started to resolve itself very successfully today and I now understand a lot more about the two central characters of this inter-galactic love story and their pivotal roles within this universe of words."

Hope it continues to write itself in such an emotive way.

Sunday, April 08, 2018

Hertzan Chimera novel - CARRIERS AND CATHEDRALS - narrative update and new cover

inspirational cover concept
So, I'm back from my relaxing holiday and I think I have the basis of certain story elements that will sit happily within the alien-prequel-esque structure of my new my INTERGALACTIC SLAVETRADE novel Carriers & Cathedrals.

 It's gonna be pure romance; pure lovely, love! 

Since the pre-holiday Happen announcement, the book has concreted around certain key narrative threads and while it conveys itself across this intial plane of the narrative process the cover and title of the book have changed.

Here's the best way to describe this book, "Alien Prequel That Never Was."  I know there are many people out there who were disgusted with how Ridley Scott butchered Gigerworld with his terrible Alien-prequel i.e. Prometheus. This book isn't that pile of steaming corporate bullshit, believe me. This book is how we get the perky inhabitants of Gigerworld onto the planet LV-426 without all that space-jesus black-goo ass-cracker-crew live-forever-like-a-robot-called-David nonsense. 

Not sure if cover/title will stay this way but it's 'illustrative' of where the current path of the INTERGALACTIC SLAVETRADE vector is going.

Fuck off, HC, it's a mainstream romance!

QUICK-FEEDBACK UPDATE: while the 'new' title Carriers & Cathedrals sounds like an implied narrative amalgamation between Military and Church, the 'carriers' aren't really those kind of Carriers and the 'cathedrals' aren't really those kind of Cathedrals. It's great that I'm getting such feedback so early in the day of this post going live suffice to say, "You're all gonna be surprised (I hope) and delighted to see where this strange-prequel-lovestory narrative goes."

Or went...

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Hertzan Chimera novel - HAPPEN - about to...?

On the back-burner since late 2015, this proposed 'new novel' from Hertzan Chimera has been through several title revisions already. I always do this during a book's life-span, as the thrust of the book resolves itself over various phases of narrative revelation.

And a new title lends itself to new cover art, added.

But with this one (so far) it's all been under-the-radar of the usual real-time writing process. I literally have hundreds of pages of notes and no desire to ring-fence the story... just a feeling that the psycho-morphic slave-trade world of HAPPEN (as it's currently called) is about to awaken from its long-distance inter-stellar stasis.

Is the writing proper about to begin? Feels like it might...

Monday, October 30, 2017

Alien Covenant - deleted scene - David explains his research and future plans for a Queen

I mean, "I'm not sure if/how the following deleted scene from Alien Covenant could have been woven into the plot somewhere..." it kinda puts a long-stop to the action (derivative corridor airlocking ret-con that it became) of the last reel. It certainly couldn't have come before the scene where the Facehugging begins...

This David-speech needed to be said, "Somewhere," in the final moments of Alien Covenant. Or maybe as an edited GENESPLICE into the flowing climax of the narrative, somehow. Building and revealing the details of David's encroaching mind-mutiny.

It's just too good to have been neglected... you know, if you have any faith at all in the fact that 'David designed the Xenomorph' as a genetic warrior i.e. weapon for Weyland-Yutani.


Personally, I still think the SPACE JOCKEY or GANESHA-LIKE TRUCKER from Scott's original Alien should have been a genomorph hailing from a planet/race of such who trade the human genome across the developing galaxy, such is its fantastic potential for CANCEROUS mutation.

Make (what we now call) 'humanity' the star of the show, would have been 'my interpretation' of any Alien Prequel -- man among the giants of the universe. Make it Giger-sexy, a Caligula space opera. Don't bother with 'a Queen' as the xenomorph can clearly BE all it wants, make all it wants. Thanks to the captive human genestrokes...

Make it an aeons-running human-trafficking story that ended with a 'space trucker' SCHINDLER'S LIST-LIKE hyperspace-unfolding and soft-landing his eggy-cargo exodus/legacy of human DNA on LV426. And have it done with. Fuck it, I'm gonna write this re-timeline Giger-nostalgia into my next Hertzan Chimera story CUNTLAND CHRONICLES. It's gonna bite! Sordid-tasty, real nasty!

Monday, October 10, 2016

Hertzan Chimera - Randall Revisited - new cover and opening words...



Message to all the government assassins of Randall, "You are nothing to me. Less than pointless. Worthless pawns in a worthless game. I will wipe you from the face of this Earth and you won't even know why..."

Let it be known, I am coming for you in the safe garages of your safe towers and you will all pay for your corporate crimes against what once was. Mankind will rise from the ashes of your world, once again, master of his own destiny. All gaming will end, soon.

All time will stand still...

Sunday, November 01, 2015

Free Planet vs War World - heavy paperbacks arrive - 2008 to 2015 update

in 2008, Silverthought Press of New York published my (45,000 words each) genreclectic novels Planet of the Owls and Bukkakeworld under the name Mike Philbin.



FREE PLANET (690 pages)
Patent. Profit. Power.
The Custodian Liberation is battling the forces of G3 or Global Gambling Game to secure your rights to your world.

WAR WORLD (620 pages)
Deception. Danger. Dreams.
G3 or Global Gambling Game are ruthless in their pursuit of profit but what secrets lie behind their power of control? 

Not necessarily a Samhain-inspired relevance but fitting, I guess, having reverted to the 'back from the dead' Hertzan Chimera writing name, I've just received the Chimericana Books paperback versions of my 2015 titles Free Planet and War World. And they're massive. I mean, I realised they were 210,000 words each. I should do, I wrote them both over a period of three years. So I know what went into them i.e. the word count is not a surprise. But they're so much heavier than any other books I've ever written, literally (the proverbial) weighty tomes.

TRIVIA YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE SPOTTED: Oh, look, how the upper 2008 image contains PLANET and WORLD, as the lower 2015 image contains PLANET and WORLD. Is this history repeating itself? Is this like a Time Loop where the Author is Sentenced to the Writing (and Re-Writing) of the Same Book time after time. Life after life. Left then right, above is below. Again and again and again, until he learns... until we all learn.

For those who care, here's the special "Free Planet vs War World" promotional website, with synopses and samples galore. Enjoy. Live. Be.

Monday, April 21, 2008

AIKIDO WHORE


preface: I've been doing aikido for over a year now, got to 5th kyu and not sure whether I'll take it much further than that... What's up Hertzie? Physically too hard for ya? Not muscly enough? Not good enough technique? Well, all that maybe and something else. Not enough of a sadist. What do you mean? Aikido-ka (as practitioners of aikido are known) might be the most sadistic bastards in the world. They seem to revel NOT NECESSARILY in the perfection of their form BUT in the near-maiming of their fellow aikido-ka, whose well-being is in their hands at the moment of completing any technique. Some just take it too far. And it reminded me, I did this story Aikido Whore way back in the mists of time - seems fitting somehow, now.


AIKIDO WHORE
short story by Hertzan Chimera


She was the stuff of magic: a PrimeTime show-n-tell superstar. 140 European pounds. Stiff right arm. Back a rod of iron. Center of g pivot guiding the hilt. Left hand nail-gunner.

Aikido Whore was a post divorce runaway from Seattle deep in heretic country. Her parents were sea-farers from old Nihon and Aikido Whore returned to the fold most weekends. To the rocky escarpments of her ancestry. Chilling chimes of angry foam colliding with her frigid naturism of icy rain on black nipples.

Aikido Whore lay back on a cliff edge of rainstorms, her meter long katana between her white thighs. The lilting chime of inclement weather banging on the cold steel shaft. The striated handle of carved ivory strapped in gold velour, ribboned for her pleasure. Her half drowning sounds ripping at the black sting of long-lost ecstasy.

Her parents called her the passion killer. Pretty complexion. Well-groomed short black bob. Razor thin lips. Black ice behind her eyes. No facial scars. She taught you how to make choices easier to stomach.

One day she came to our town on the outskirts of nowhere in her bleached white gi and prominent sword of sorcery. Cars would honk like a V of geese and pull alongside her, blood flooded penises unsheathed in battle glory.

I met her just that one time, bumped into her more like, in the local Porn Library. She had ten A-levels in some obscure fields of intellectual sado-masochism. She gently helped me to my feet, a true Samaritan. I watched her perving for hours, her black eyes caught in the speed-reading radar refracted light from superfast prisms you would use to calculate c; the juiciest of vitamin visions.

Aikido Whore was hounded by the martial arts paparazzi, heckled on street corners where she plied her illicit trade in razor cuts of sleaze and chrome rainbows of terror.

She finally accepted a live-on-the-air challenge from a young upstart on the heaving, sweltering sidewalk; a fibrous fleshed Samurai Crack Whore with no front teeth; got them knocked out sucking daddies chromium plated cock post-industrial evolution. She had a golden chassis of the most wonderful allure, smiled as she entered the spotlight. Headlamps blazing from the furtively polished bonnet of her forehead, the V8 in her skull pan revving, purring.

Aikido Whore was like a calm lagoon by comparison. Picture the extravaganza, it is 7:30 pm on a Wednesday Night Newsflash, they are gonna show the contest GlobaLive. Forty six independent states across what remains of our all-too-fickle global economy. These sexual gladiatorials are all we need, they scratch their crotches in household after household after household. Even the pre-high-school-jinx kiddies, allowed to witness this televised filth, scratch their little crotches, spit into spittoons in global unison as the first cursory sword blows forge a naked parade of loin and lightning across forty six independent states.

In the studio audience, men no younger than my grand pappy tore off their shriveled cocks in last-ditch-attempt to lay some fine muscular filly before their time is up. The stage, which sloped towards the camera like a leaking water bed was a awash with these gory, torn off penile stumps maggoting in old rutting wounds the sheen of faded dollar bills.

A swift slash across the chest opened up Samurai Crack Whore's ribcage and in flew several of the rancid slivers of throbbing, pulsating old-man-hood. Samurai Crack Whore retaliated with a big old hack then a swooping slash and a raging impalement that well nigh quartered Aikido Whore there on the spot in the spotlit arena of Porn that was Prime Time TV. Strobe lines of purest Manga influence as she hit the deck. The penises leapt onto her, filling her gaping gashes, fondulicating every live orifice. Cut to the chase and it was an easier win than you would expect for Aikido Whore who writhed about dying fish fashion. Her vaginal juice dripping demise letting off sonorous farts of lubrication as Samurai Crack Whore of Intended Retribution hacked and slashed ad infinitum. All that remained onstage was a split open slaughter of unrateable excess. A miasma of murder for all the luvvies of television land to devour and digest in their ruminant comfy chairs.

And quickly the votes poured in. Aikido Whore scored highly on Artistic Expression while her slut steeled opponent scored equally on Technical Merit. It was flung open to the studio audience totally brain fucked by the lecherous lesbian horror of steel-raped cat flaps.

Anecdotes are heard even now, fifteen years into the tube-blurb future, of the night Aikido Whore brought the house down at 7:30 pm on a boring Wednesday night of Prime Time TV. Legendary fuck festival of the mind, they tend to call it. Long may TV be full access. Opening all to the pleasure of the sexual brawl.


Amen.