Chaotic Mind of an Author [video updates part 3]

Joseph M. Lenard

Chaotic Mind of an Author [video updates part 3] part 2 was: "Behind The Scenes of Writing And Publishing" vlog part 1 was: "Life And Living Series About To Birth Another [4th] Book ..." vlog

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00:00Hey gang, I'm recording this at 4.39 a.m. Eastern Time, a little loopy, I need to be in bed

00:16asleep, but the way my OCD brain works, so I'm giving an update on the fourth entry into

00:27the Life and Living series that I'm creating. This will now be, I think, the third video

00:33exclusive I'm doing on this. Behind the scenes, you're learning about the book as I'm doing

00:42it. You know, knock on empty head, hopefully the book does come out as planned in spring

00:49or these videos will be rather senselessly done or a waste. I don't know, I don't know

00:59what to say about it, but, you know, four in the morning, which brings to mind before I

01:05go into the book. And I'm going to talk about how strange this kind of, this current book

01:14is, and on purpose. But, yeah, the way my OCD brain works, it calls to mind, maybe I'll

01:24throw this in the book because it's already strange. Why not throw this strange tidbit

01:29in there, too? An old parody, Weird Al style, I wrote about the Night Ranger 4 AM song. Four

01:39in the morning came without a warning as I struggled to get my ass out of bed. I stumbled to the

01:46kitchen just to hear the cat a-bitching because she wanted to be fed. Okay, right? Uh-oh, I

01:54said right again. Ah, stop that. But at any rate, yeah, dumb. That's the only verse I had of it. It's

02:04stuck in my head forever. I never recorded the parody, obviously, because I never finished

02:10the parody of the song, but that was a verse that came to me for four in the morning, Night Ranger,

02:18and it's 4.41 now. So let me get to the point of this darn video, right? Oh, there it did

02:27it again. Right. At any rate, and that, yes, I'm continuing to do on purpose. Tongue-in-cheek,

02:39ongoing running gag, at any rate. So, yes, two o'clock in the morning.

02:47Epiphany, the EOCD brain woke me up, had a dream, as most of my books, if you know, most

02:59of my books come to me through a dream, and then I translate them into a book. Well, this

03:09fourth book in the Life and Living series, which I can't give the title yet, can't give it

03:15away, and is being written rather strangely. Normally, this kind of stuff would be saved

03:23for a post-released interview, because of the books that done, things could change, but

03:31where was I going with that? See, I need to get my butt back to bed. Oh, yeah, two in the morning.

03:41My OCD brain woke me up with a dream that did relate to this book, and so I got back up, and

03:49for the last couple hours, I've been typing away, typing away, typing away. So, I'm just showing

03:58you the back of the page. On the front of this page is the updated table of contents.

04:04I broke another rule. I tell you in how to write a book and get it published, tips and

04:13techniques, always start with a story outline. Put your thoughts together in a story outline.

04:24Get your chapter concepts together in a story outline. Well, I didn't do that with this book.

04:32I'm breaking my own rule. I actually started writing chapter one without having a clue where

04:40any of the other chapters was going to go, but on the other side of this blank sheet is

04:45my current outlined table of contents actually in the book. No story outline yet, even still.

04:56I'm flying by the seat of my pants with this book. And indeed, it's strange. I was going

05:05to say, my friends who know me, when they read this book, they might think I'm smoking something

05:15funny or doing some mushrooms or dropping LSD. I assure you. Or that I've gone loony and loopy

05:24and crazy and crazy and should be put away because this book is strange. And that's part of the point

05:33of this book is what I wanted to say. Chapter one is clearly a confused state and meant to demonstrate

05:44that. Life is complex and complicated. Sometimes there are contradictory and conflicting feelings we

05:53have and an uncertainty of the direction we should really take or the direction we have taken is the

06:02path we're on, the one we should be on. What have we done right? What have we done wrong? Uncertainty.

06:09And chapter one is meant to convey that. So people who know me might read that and think, well,

06:17this guy's gone crazy. What is this gobbledygook? It's a mishmash of confusion. Now, I'm engaging in

06:27hyperbole to a degree here. It still makes a point. It still has structure. But it does go back and

06:36forth a bit to convey confusion and uncertainty and upset. The word upset in that chapter.

06:48But I was also going to say, and I probably, again, breaking rules, you don't give away these things. Do not

06:58give away these things. But indeed, chapter four, as it currently stands now, is titled Annie. And why is it

07:07titled Annie? Well, I'm sure you guessed it. Yeah, the play. And yes, this book, like the book Kennedy

07:17Project Carpe Diem, and a short story, a lasting legacy before it, which are concurrent books,

07:24more or less time frame wise, more or less time frame wise, in the Life and Living series, all of these are

07:30concurrent time frames happening more or less at the same time together, if that makes sense. And yes,

07:39they all relate based on life and living and the complexities of life. Hence, this now third,

07:48fourth in the series, fourth in the series, but third, more directly concurrent, do interrelate with

07:58shared characters. Each book has its own new primary character. But yes, they interrelate a little by

08:07character cross-referencing in them. Hence, the concurrent storytellings in the three books. But again,

08:16you don't have to read them as a series, you don't have to read them together. You don't have to read

08:22them as a set at all. You can read one, two, or all three or all four that will be ultimately in the

08:33Life and Living series. But chapter four, Annie, yeah, based on the musical play. And tomorrow,

08:41tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, the sun will come out tomorrow. And it too is a very strange chapter.

08:51The metaphor, or as I joke, I'm too clever for metaphors. I use meta sixes. But the meta indeed,

09:05indeed, and I use the word indeed, purposely, because indeed, the word indeed is repeated a lot in this

09:13book, on purpose. Not that I don't have a thesaurus and could look up different words to put in place

09:24of indeed. But indeed, I do use indeed a lot in it. And indeed will land up a lot in the final version.

09:33Okay, now that I've driven you crazy with that, a little bit of stupidity. But yeah, Annie is a

09:42metaphor, and the sun will come out tomorrow, of course. The metaphor, the main character,

09:50I was going to give his name, maybe I'll hold off again, shouldn't be given away what I am giving

09:58away, let alone too many more things. But the new primary character hasn't appeared in the book of

10:06Kennedy, Project Carpe Diem, or a short story, A Lasting Legacy. Kennedy is female. Kennedy,

10:15A Lasting Legacy, Ryan, male Ryan. In this book, it is another male lead.

10:21And he, where was I going with that? Annie, son will come out tomorrow. He, again, just showing

10:32confusion and strangeness of life. It's meant to be strange. Oh, he is, this is where I was going.

10:42Pardon, again, it's 4.49 in the morning now. And I'm loopy because I need to get back to bed

10:50and try to get some sleep here. I did get a couple hours sleep. I went to bed at like 11.30,

10:57like I said, was back up at 2. Now, clock just ticked over to 4.50 a.m. Eastern time. I got to get

11:05back to bed. I need sleep. I didn't get enough sleep yesterday or the day before. This happens. This

11:11is why I can't write so many books all that often, because my OCD brain obsesses about it until it's

11:21complete. And I don't get sufficient sleep. It's not good for my health. I have health issues and

11:28my disability, as many of you know. If you didn't know that, now you do. But he is not an orphan,

11:35certainly not looking to be adopted. We're talking about an adult in this book. But it's a strange

11:44metaphor, and it's meant to be a strange metaphor to convey complexity and sometimes a bit of insanity

11:54of life. Life, as I just wrote, I'm going to bring that back up again. Let me, I'm popping up word.

12:03I just added to the end of the introduction, life does not always move in concert with our plans.

12:11It, its own ideas, it, I need to change that. It has its own ideas. Let me type that in. It has its own

12:21ideas, comma, or God-owned proposal for our life. I just put that in. And, and that's the point

12:33of chapter four, Annie, and it's indeed sense of silliness. I don't really want to say that,

12:42but definitely strangeness as a metaphor. It'll leave you saying, or I hope people saying,

12:50what? And that's the point. Things aren't always black and white or really clear. Things can be

13:01confusing. And maybe that's what I'll go with the working title of the book. Confusion. That's not

13:10the title I'm planning. Well, let's call it confusion. I could give that away because that's

13:15not going to be the title. But that is indeed more so the point of this book versus the other books.

13:24It's meant to be part of the life and living theories and dealing with indeed life and living, but

13:34kind of the more chaotic life a person is having. Different. Still wanting to sew good, put out good,

13:46be a good person, you know, bring warmth and love to others. That recurring theme remains. But this

13:55person's life is a bit more chaotic and uncertain what he's doing and where he's go, where he's been,

14:04where he's going. It's a third person, different person's life. Part of the overall complexities of

14:12life, human nature, the human condition that the life and living series is about. All right. And anyway,

14:21it's now 4.53. I've gone longer in this video than intended. Given away far more than I should have.

14:29As I said, like I'm going to hold up the book again. How to write a book and get it published. Hints,

14:35tips, tips, and techniques. I'm giving away way too much. Shouldn't be doing it. Breaking my own rules.

14:43But in a way, I really, really want to share terrorstrikes.info. There is a status page or

14:53an update page. I forget. Under the extras, terrorstrikes.info, under the extras, you can find

15:00a status update page. I kind of did this, not in video form, with the terrorstrikes coming soon to

15:09sit in your U-book. I had that site up before the book was finished. And I told you the phases.

15:18I'm writing. I'm writing this, that. It's in editing. It's in cover design. It's in. So that page is

15:27still there. Terrorstrikes.info. Under extras, it's either status or update, something like

15:36that. Sub page. Been a while since I've updated that page. I haven't needed to. So this is kind

15:43of a video form now version of conflicted or confusion, whatever I was calling the working

15:54title. I can't give away the actual title. But I wanted to give status updates. This is kind

16:02of fun to me. And part of the how to write a book and get it published process, sharing

16:09with you, if you're considering writing a book, behind the scenes. What goes through an author's

16:17mind is they're putting things together. I'm sharing some of them behind the scenes secrets.

16:22The nuts and bolts going into this, putting together this vehicle. Now my OCD brain is the

16:30Johnny Cash song, One Piece at a Time. Where he's building a Cadillac. He's working at the Cadillac

16:38and he's sneaking out parts. So over a 12-year period, he's got different parts and they don't

16:47quite fit together to make the Cadillac. One side of the Cadillac's got a fin, the other

16:52doesn't because that's changed. Anyway, part of the confusion and idiocy and complexities

17:01of life. So that relates also. Thank you all. Take care. God bless. I hope this makes sense.

17:13If you're thinking about writing a book, I hope it's helpful to you. If you're not considering

17:20writing a book, you probably haven't made it to this point of the video. But even if you

17:25aren't writing a book, how to write a book and get it published, its tips and techniques

17:31is a book that gives you behind the scenes of what writers and publishers go through to get

17:39like these books that are on the bookshelves in my virtual image projected on my green screen

17:46are showing. How do all those books, they don't come into being by magic. People do work. People

17:55write them. People publish them. People put them on the shelves. You check them out of the library or

18:01buy them through Amazon so that you can enjoy them. How to write a book and get it published,

18:07tips, tips, and techniques. Shows you the behind the scenes if you're an avid reader. How did those

18:13books become available? Anyway, again, now 457. Gotta get to bed. Take care. Love you all. God bless.

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