Celtic Bard: Blog

Well ladies and gentlemen, as the title says, I was very bored this weekend and so I got the next chapter of Justice Resurrected ready for posting. It should be up by the afternoon, though the webmaster has been rocking lately and things have been up in a matter of a couple of hours. An astute reader sent me an e-mail this past week after he read the last chapter and included a list of things he wants to see happen in future chapters. I laughed aloud when I read it because pretty much the entirety of the list is upcoming in the next few chapters. Great minds think alike, I guess.

On a personal note, I want to thank the men and women involved with the op that put Osama bin Laden where he belongs! You guys and gals rock! I am just sorry you had to wait 10 years to do it. But like the Israelis after '72, we eventually did it. Now if we can only stop the screwing around with the weasels we have down in GITMO and send them to join their leader! KSM and his boys have been living for far too long on our dime.

Anyway, sorry if that little bit of exultation irritates you, but I had too many family members and friends that were far too close to NYC and DC on 11 September, 2001 for me not to feel that way.

That is all for now. Enjoy the latest installment of Justice and thanks for all the support I've been getting.

Chapter 10 of Justice Resurrected is submitted and should be up for your enjoyment sometime between now and tomorrow evening. For those of you asking about certain facets of Gnathar society and about the Gnaths, you get a little more about those aspects of the story in this chapter and even more in the next few.
I also want to alert you all to something that I started working on today because my nephew was visiting and watching seriously ret-oops, sorry . . . mentally challenged cartoons. I had to get away from the tv and work on something that would distract my mind from thinking about the correlation of idiotic cartoons and the falling academic performance of American children. Granted, there was not much of redeemable value in the Three Stooges or the Daffy Duck-Bugs Bunny routines or GI Joe and Transformers cartoons I watched growing up. But at least they used real words most of the time and not the idiocy I saw on the Cat In The Hat today and the annoying Curious George cartoons my nephew was watching.
Anyway, enough pontificating. To get away from the irritation, I went and started something new based on a philisophical pondering that occured to me a while back: Are mortals capable of handling immortality? Ignore the impossibility of immortality on this plane of existence and ponder that. Our minds and perceptions and reactions are all geared towards survival in a mortal lifetime and with mortals as our companions in that lifetime. So how would somebody with that as a mindframe and worldview handle immortality?
With this thought in mind, I began Anomaly of the Fates. I may either write it all out or I may post it piecemeal, I have not decided yet. Anyone who has thoughts on that is welcomed to drop me an e-mail to register their opinion.

Anyway, that is all for this week. I am hoping to have Justice on a weekly, Thursday/Friday schedule from here on out. Enjoy and send me your thoughts on anything else that might occur to you. I appreciate constructive feedback.

Chapter 9 of Justice Resurrected is edited and submitted for your enjoyment. I want to thank all of those who have been so lavish in their praise of this story and for their continued support. Hopefully, with the long weekend and the completion of my last job, I can get to working on some of the projects I have had on hold. Some of those include three or four Am'mortal stories I have either started or considered starting (including a sort-of-but-not-really sequel to The Wanderer), a tie-up-a-couple-of-loose-ends sort of sequel/prequel to Death and Love in Marjah, and a story I seem to have lost half of that I started and never finished that was aimed at a younger audience when I first started it, but which will probably "contain material not suitable to young audiences."

I am also considering on working more on trying to get the first thing I ever wrote seriously (a 600+ page novel when I was 17 and just out of high school) ready for public consumption. The problem with that is that it, like many things writers first write, is drivel. The story and the characters are good but the writing is absolutely horrendous so it would take rewriting the entire thing before I even considered posting it. I think it would be worth it, however, and I was very fond of the characters. Also, I got halfway through its sequel before something else bubbled up (see Stranger in an Even Stranger Land for that). When I got back to it and reread it, I realized I would have to rewrite it or give it up as the drivel it was.

Anyway, that is what I am contemplating even as I continue to work on Justice for you all. Enjoy the latest and I greatly appreciate hearing from those of you who send me your thoughts on what you read.

Alright, I finished the work I brought home faster than I thought I would and so I got Chapter 8 of Justice Resurrected done for you all. Enjoy!

Alright, chapter 7 of Justice Resurrected is ready and submitted. It should be up by tomorrow for your enjoyment. I might have time this weekend to get another one ready for you, but I brought a bunch of work home this weekend, so don't count on it. Anyway, enjoy and remember, I am always receptive of constructive criticism.