Returning To The Roots

In The Demon’s Head #88: Returning To The Roots

March 23, 2013

When I discovered that I was a writer ahead of my classmates back in the 4th grade I would have never expected the journey to take me the way it has. I don’t say that to toot my own horn. In fact it was my 4th grade teacher Mrs. Seivers (I think that’s how her name is spelt) that made me realize that I could write.

In the years that have followed I have learned that my writing has changed. It’s evolved and grew. Surprisingly enough so have I. A huge step in that evolution as a writer came when I started this blog last February. I have to say that I’m mildly surprised that I’ve managed to keep life in this blog over the last year. While inconsistent posting sure, there have been new posts at least once a month.

I look back at the first five or six of these that I did and I realized that I gave a general warning in each of them. Basically it was that there may be some things or words said in these post that offend people. I had really thought that my writing style for this blog would be much like I talked in real life. This included a lot of words that may offend some including to but not limited to Fuck.

I don’t say these things just for shock value. I also don’t say them because I have limited vocabulary. I use these words because that’s just the type of person that I am. I realized that it wasn’t conveyed in the writing of this blog. That I hadn’t stayed true to myself mainly because I wanted everyone to enjoy what I was doing here. I still hope that you do like what I do but don’t be surprised if I say a few colorful things that some one else may not write for fear of being looked at differently.

Now I’ve got a few interesting tidbits to share with you today so scroll on down I hope you’ll enjoy some of the new, or kinda new things, that I’m coming up with here.

Reintroducing Photoblogging

As I’m sure a lot of you are aware. Last month I lost my job. While this does suck, I have to say that it has opened a lot of new doors. The best is that it has opened the ability to write a lot more. While I can’t make tons of promises about where I will end up going with my writing in the next year, I can promise that Photoblogging will return.

I won’t be doing it five days a week. I think that’s a bit over the top and a lot of extra work, especially if I want to get other writing done. But I will be doing it 3 days a week. Monday/Wednesday/Friday; before I said I would feature them on Wattpad, but I think I’d rather just leave them an “In The Demon’s Head” exclusive.

From The 35th Floor Now Available

March’s free writing “From The 35th Floor” is now available on Wattpad. I’m in talks with a friend who is developing a cover for it. If you haven’t checked it out yet click this link and you’ll see a piece that I’m extremely proud of. I’d love your feedback and comments on the piece.

Final Thoughts 

I’m going to start trying to do a blog post twice a week. It may be about what’s going on with my writing. It may be about something else entirely. I’m not really sure but I’m hoping that you enjoy it going forward. As always I welcome your comments, emails and anything else. I’m a very sociable guy and would love to talk to you.

On a side note, I’m going to start looking into something that I haven’t really seen anyone else use yet. If I can figure it out then I think that it will be a revolution in the way books are marketed and sold. I know that’s a bold statement but I think it could be that massive.

Until the next time you want to take a trip through the gates of hell and into the demon’s head. I’m Kyle Robinson wishing you a safe trip back to the surface. You can connect with me on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. You can also send me an email with any comments and questions you may have and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

In The Demon's Head: To All Who Survived The Myans

In The Demon’s Head #72:To All Who Survived The Myans

December 27, 2012

Merry Belated Christmas all and I hope that your season was filled with cheer and excitement as you spent time with the ones that you loved. I myself didn’t do a whole lot I spent some time with my Dad, Grandma and some other family as well as my wonderful Fiancé Liz. You read that right yours truly is now engaged.  I’ll talk more about this at some point in the future but for right now let’s jump into this edition of In The Demon’s Head before it becomes one of those stupid sappy Christmas letters that you really don’t want to read.

Future of The Blackout Series

Don’t be worried this isn’t an announcement that sees the Blackout Series never come to light. Quite the contrary this an announcement marking the release of the first story in the Blackout Series entitled “Life After Dark” has finished its first hard edits and I will be putting them in here within the next couple of days, shipping it off to my editor and starting on the hard edits for story 2 which is “Six Feet Under” The first story will be available directly for download from my website, through Smashwords, possibly Amazon, and WattPad. I haven’t settled on an exact date yet but unlike I previously had hoped the story will be available either Late January or Early-Mid February but I plan on no later than that.

Website Updates

I said this in my last post from earlier this month and still haven’t done it yet but I do fully intent to make one of my projects at the first of the year revamping my website. There’s two reasons for this especially now, first being that I’ve done a lot of studying about how websites should work and a good way to build an author website and while my is barebones what it should be it’s nothing like it should be and that’s a problem that I fully intend to correct at the first of the year.

Other Projects to Kick off 2013

Since we survived the Myan doomsday prophecy from December 21, 2012 it means that I can start planning for what comes heading into 2013 and I’ve established how I will fill the bulk of the first half of the year, I will be writing, revising, and preparing a novel with a yet unknown title centered around the plotline for the poem “Viral” that I released earlier this year. I’m going to take this in a different direction and try to land an agent and get the book traditionally published. I think that the plot is strong enough and as long as I can shape the characters I should have no problem.

The year is ending on a high note. I started this full time journey back in February and since I’ve done a lot of good things and I’ve taken a number of steps in the right direction so I’m very confident heading into 2013 that I will only go further in the right direction. This will likely be the last post that I publish this year but I’d like to say many thanks to everyone who has liked the stuff I’ve done so far and expect much more coming in 2013. Everyone have a Happy New Year and I’ll see you on the other side of the Ball Drop for 2013.  

In The Demon's Head: 11 Years Later

In The Demon's Head #59: 11 Years Later, How the World Has Changed.

September 11, 2012

Hello everyone on this afternoon where many have spent the day morning or somber due to the memorials that took place earlier today to commemorate the 11^th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks on America on September 11, 2001. For so many today is a day of memorial and remembrance as they lost a loved one or lost something on that fateful day. The question that's posed every year is do you remember where you were when the plane struck the towers.

For me, I was in the fifth grade. We had just finished up something in the morning and we were instructed to line up and go to the gym where we were all gathered. No one ever told us exactly what was going on but we were told that something had happened, being so young I didn't quite understand the severity of it until that afternoon when I came home.

Even as young as I was I realized that, that day would forever live on as something that would change the lives of every American Citizen. A couple of days later WWE's Smackdown was the first public gathering since the attacks and Vince McMahon offered a heartfelt and moving speech to the crowd that night in attendance. He said that we as American's wouldn't be afraid because fear would only show them that they had won. That was the first night in a series of events that showed how much the country had been moved. The final thing that I remember from that week was the CMA's where Alan Jackson performed his song “Where were you when the world stopped turning” It's a song that to this day is played on September 11, as a memorial for those that had fallen.

Now looking back at the events of that day it's amazing how things have shaped our lives. First off looking at our security system that's changed over the last decade. Airport Security is going to be a huge deal now, not that it shouldn't have always been but the last decade has taught us things that we would have never known about ourselves.

Another thing that I think has changed as a whole is the human mindset. We're a lot weaker as a human race then we used to be. We take too much care in everything and we always get butt hurt when things don't go the way they want, they get upset when things are taken the slightest out of context.

I think it's changed a lot of things, including how everything is looking. I don't know for a fact what comes next but I believe that whatever it is we as a society needs to be ready for it. I'm not preaching and arguing about what comes next and what we need to do but given our history we need to be ready.

That's all for today's edition of In The Demon's Head, I'll be back Friday with a new general update. In that update I will have some new information on the direction of the In The Demon's Head Blog going forward. I hope that you'll join me, Until the next time that you decide to take a trip through the gates of hell and into the demon's head, I'm Kyle Robinson wishing you a safe trip back to the surface.

In The Demon's Head: Story Art: Getting Ideas

In The Demon's Head #55: Story Art: Getting Ideas

August 28, 2012

Hello everyone I hope everything is well for you this Tuesday, I'm very excited to be bringing you this edition of “In The Demon's Head” as it is a continuation of our new blogging series “Story Art” I did an intro this past Friday and today I'd like to start with our first conversation, Getting Ideas.

This is a topic that some people feel they should never share any light on, I'm not sure why but I've heard that. On the flip side there are also people who share a lot of information on this topic and none of it seems all that important. I hope that I can share some of my experience with you without boring you or you thinking that it wasn't worth reading.

First, I'd like to make something clear, while it's not this way for everyone for a lot of people the best ideas seem like they come from nowhere. It doesn't make any sense but they will be walking along and boom an idea hits them that leaves them unable to think about anything else.

I'll share a story with you, there's a story in “More Than Memories” called the “7^th Circle Railway” the idea came to me while I was riding along with Liz and we passed a railroad track that I had never seen before. I grabbed my phone and wrote a note down so I wouldn't forget it. Like that I had an idea for a short story.

Poetry tends to be a little different for me, ideas for them seem to come a bit harder. I think that those things come while writing. You start with a barebones idea and it evolves as you write. Now again these aren't things that are customary to every person but for me this is how it works.

Now how do you defer a good idea from a bad idea? First, before you say that you've never had a bad idea, this may be true for you however, you need to decide which stories you should tell. That's a hard thing to do when you just want to keep writing everything that comes into your head. This was something that I read in Stephen King's “On Writing” Not every story is yours to tell, so how do you decide which ones are yours?

You sleep on it.

What I mean is that if you come up with an idea that won't go away go to sleep. If you can sleep and wake up and the idea is still there then it's an idea that you should keep ahold of. Now if the idea won't go away then write it down somewhere, I keep everything in a journal, write it down then in a few weeks read the idea again or if you remember it think it over, if it still offers you the same amount of excitement that it did the day it was born then you have something you should write. If it doesn't make you excited then it's something that needs pitched because if your not excited to tell that story then it will come through in your writing and become one of those things that you should never have put out for the eyes of man in the first place.

For some people, ideas are hard to come by, for others it seems like the ideas do nothing but come to them time and time again. Those people may never use the ideas that they found, I've met a couple people like that, then there are people who would kill just for one or two ideas. In reality it's all about execution. You have to be willing to write the ideas that you have.

That closes out my Getting section of “Story Art” hopefully I didn't bore you. I'll be back Friday talking about where to begin a story. Until the next time you want to take a trip through the gates of hell and into the demon's head I'm Kyle Robinson wishing you a safe trip back to the surface.