The Captain's Log

  52°39'02"N 7°14'57"W Gusty 12 knot eastward winds Captain's Log: 11/04/2025 Like most of my previous log entries, these past 30 days have been filled to the brim with events, tasks, and various activities outside of my usual daily routine. But nonetheless lets get this report moving savvy? Concerning my writing: While I've managed a good four or five pages since my last entry, I've come to terms with the list of narrative tasks that will need to be addressed in my current project before I can finally bring about the events of the first act. What one of my beta readers has definitely come to learn about me as a writer, after beta reading The Last Pirate King,  is that I'm particular and overly vague in my build up to the first main act; that it's not until the first main act that you'd even know the theme or what the narrative is even meant to be. A task I've taken much needed focus into correcting while working on my second project. Howev...

52°15'33"N 7°06'24"W Pleasant northerly breeze of 4 knots Captain's Log: 10/03/2025 Concerning my writing: While having only finally hit page 80 and began my next chapter, things have been as slow on writing as it's been intense with everything else. Luckily A plan has been laid out for the next chapter and will finalize the full introduction of the main narrative and direction for the second TLPK book. However in the past 30 days I've invested alot more time on thinking about the aspect of writing villains. Not only do I want Elric to be a well written character, but to also make him a memorable one. Among the many things for re-writing draft 3of TLPK, but that one particularly being the most important. Overall there is progress, all while slower than I prefer, there is still progress. While I wanted to be at page 100 by now, the beginning of the second story has been consistently reminding me of how much trouble I tend to have with the beginning of thing...

  53°54'51"N 6°46'25"W North by Northwest winds at a pleasant 7 knots A bit on the cloudy side of things with the smell of coming rain. Captain's Log: 9/9/2025  Concerning my writing: While there have been progress, it’s far less than I’d wish to report. Nonetheless the truth is progress has been short as of late with RotLPK. However the movements of the Creative Monkey have been dictating the much needed changes to Draft 3 of TLPK. While not the intended focus in my writing, it’s still a necessary focus, even though it was meant for much later on after forwarding Draft 1 of RotLPK to my beta readers. One could easily make excuses for neglecting one’s craft due to events in one’s personal life, but those aren’t the excuses that will be tolerated in my cabin. Least of all in a report written by me. So methods have been applied to better my time towards writing because even a single page per day is much needed progress, and in the past 30 days there have been at mos...

  51°55'44"N 8°34'14"W Southwest wind of 10 knots  Sunny and a most comfortable 70 degrees Captain's Log: 8/1/2025 This past 30 days have been quite the eventful days. One of the duties as captain is I seldom ever get a break. Brief moments to breath are most appreciated however. When operating my life at 110% with daily matters, it's a wonder how I even manage to get any writing done. Rest assured writing has been done, but with projects all over the place, and now it's time for the report on my writing activities. Concerning my writing: While working on the sequel to, The Last Pirate King, I've recently come to a realization that I've neglected while outlining the book-- Mythology symbolism!!! For my dear beta readers whom have read through the first book, and neglected to notice such symbolism. So before going back to fix up things in the first book, I'll be taking the matter of properly placing symbolism throughout the second. Mythology pla...

  52°02'09"N 10°02'05"W Gentle NW winds of 6 knots Captain's Log: 7/2/2025 This passed 30 days have been filled to the brim with activities and events.  While I tried to make an attempt to write a log 15 days ago, the time simply could not be made within a reasonable amount of time to comfortably sit down and write a simple log. Time management is next on my list of task modifications that need to be made. I'm not the best at maintaining, let alone tracking the time I invest in certain affairs. Be it trying to practice my guitar, piano, sketching or trying to get some words in within my next writing project. The ability to better manage my time is something I truly need to be better at. Thusly excuses out of the way and lets get down to the proper updates that brings you here. Concerning my writing: So sadly I was not able to make it to page 100 as I had hoped I would during the month of June. However movement has been made, and thus are the result of currentl...

  53°21'05"N 6°15'38"W Sunny with some clouds and a southerly wind of a brisk 13 knots. Captain's Log:  6/03/2024  Concerning my writing: Progress sometimes requires me to go out for a pleasant walk to let my mind wander a bit. When sitting in my living room, I often forget I'm surrounded by my distractions in the comfort of home. More often than not I find it challenging to focus when it comes to writing. To make things even more challenging, I'm in the beginning stages of telling the second Last Pirate King  story. Current progress: I'm at the 70th page sitting at about 24K words. While for most this can be considered as progress, but I'm constantly second guessing whether or not I'm taking too long at introducing all the new characters and carefully placing down the foundations that lead up to act 1. At 70 pages I feel confident I've done relatively well at introducing all of the new characters while re-introducing my readers to the crew...