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ng during this time robert is fully aware that he is enduring the same reality filled with the same day to day circumstances that had caused him to form such a poor mental state that he had possessed before the miraculous emergence of the enchanted plant and the gifts it bestowed upon him though he is sure that making adjustments to his being would be of great benefit to his mental health robert finds himself unwilling to change for a number rational reasons thus he deems the plant and it s magical abilities to be a great ally one that can cure his unhappy and empty soul without any effort on his part learning that the powers granted to him are able to benefit not only his morale but also other aspects of his life robert begins using them to improve himself in a variety of ways that result in a number of favorable outcomes all seems well for robert as he becomes more and more of the person he always wanted to be even while inhabiting a truly loathsome life that the plant continually numbs him from however everything will change for robert after one impulsive decision a decision that will alter his view of the world forever consequently giving him reason to transform his life rather than hide from it free for a limited time june 20 2017 june 20 2017 ian cardenas fiction writer leave a comment using the coupon code ne28t you can download the ebook for part i of my mini series the seed of god for free offer ends july 25th get your copy here from smashwords com the seed of god part ii june 17 2017 june 17 2017 ian cardenas fiction writer leave a comment hey blog readers i finished part ii of my four part mini series the seed of god i know part i was kind of short as it was the introduction to the story but part ii is at least twice as long i think two posts ago i gave a description of part i so i m not going to repeat that however i will say that you can now buy the ebook version of part i on a host of websites including barnes and noble s here s the link https www barnesandnoble com w the seed of god ian cardenas 1126510523 ean 2940154399569 anyway i am pretty excited about that and part ii of the seed of god will also be available on all the websites soon as well here is my synopsis for part ii upon waking up the morning after robert skeptically planted the seeds that the mysterious stranger gave to him with the promise that they would fill the void in his life he discovers an extraordinary act of nature in his backyard a giant beanstalk like plant reaching to the clouds witnessing it for the first time robert feels it s presence can only be explained by one of two things some kind of magical force or more plausibly a brain tumor however when others behold the sight of such an inexplainable phenomenon the latter explanation goes out the window robert quickly learns through studying the gigantic growth on his lawn that it has remarkable abilities that can in fact as the stranger assured him remedy the feelings of emptiness he had long felt from within but with his billboard worthy suburban neighborhood and the mighty homeowner s association at his throat about getting rid of what could be consecrated as a natural wonder of the world robert must make a decision he can either follow the regulations set forth by his community and continue his seemingly meaningless existence or he can fight the powers that be save the miracle that wondrously appeared in his life and start down a new and fulfilling path of being so yeah there it is i had to add some spoilers from part i in there for the synopsis to make sense but it s all good right now you can purchase part ii for 1 00 at https www smashwords com books view 730850 hope you enjoy thanks everyone for the support ian music break june 7 2017 june 7 2017 ian cardenas fiction writer leave a comment i wrote and produced a new song called the present enjoy take some time out of your day to lay back and give it a listen i m writing a mini series june 2 2017 june 2 2017 ian cardenas fiction writer leave a comment yep you read it right while i am waiting to hear back from literary agents about publishing my literary fiction novel big red yonder i ve been writing a four part mini series called the seed of god part i of the series is now accessible for download you can get the e book here for 1 00 https www smashwords com books view 728010 i am currently in the process of writing part ii and it should be available soon if you go to the link i shared you can read the series synopsis however i will stick it in this post for your convenience check it out living the archetypal american dream it appeared robert had it all a steady job that paid well a gorgeous wife who seemed to only get more attractive with age two bright and well behaved children who always seemed to do as they were told before they were even told what to do and a comfortably large suburban home in the middle of a warm and friendly neighborhood on the outskirts of a bright and booming city but even with the six figure salary the picture perfect family the billboard worthy community in which he resided and all of the other blessings bestowed upon him he could not help but suspect that something was missing in his life as a result he felt a growing void within his soul one that he could not attribute a cause for that is until one fateful afternoon when by happenstance robert crosses paths with a mysterious man who grants him an incredible gift one with the potential to remedy his feelings of emptiness forever however anything that seems too good to be true usually is and anything that is true usually comes with a price and as robert reaps the benefits of the peculiar stranger s offering he soon discovers the unsavory consequences that come with its satisfying benedictions i didn t go into too much description here because i figured its vagueness might leave potential readers intrigued enough to buy the short story and find out for themselves the cryptic details within the summary maybe my tactic will work maybe not either way i m taking pleasure in writing my first magical realism based story it s a fun genre to play around with and i can t wait to continue producing the rest of the mini series god speed ian publishing and a truly creative mind may 29 2017 may 29 2017 ian cardenas fiction writer 1 comment i ve been thinking a lot recently about the whole traditional publishing route for completed manuscripts i ve also been doing tons of research on the subject to help me understand this whole business better and all this thinking and all this research has led me to the insight that for a truly creative artist story teller and wordsmith writing is the easy part of this whole career journey it is easy to write a book it is so much more difficult to figure out the whole vocational aspect of this profession a novelist has to be a salesperson to an extent and for many creative minds this isn t easy especially for the reclusive writer sect of men and women as i find myself often being i am introverted and always in my head i can come up with the plot of a story in mere seconds and i can begin writing it as soon as i get the time but when it comes to getting a work published the struggle is real i have to break out of my shell on a daily basis try to make connections put myself out there and sell myself my ideas and my product once long ago i was a salesman for a time selling scam products to mostly elderly people inside costcos and sam s clubs this was completely legal but completely unethical i hated it i hated it i hated it and every time i sold something i felt awful about myself but it was a job and i needed money as you can guess i didn t keep that job for very long to be a good salesperson i think you have to be either completely heartless or you have to truly believe in the product you are selling confidence is key and many authors lack that confidence not in their writing perhaps but socially this whole getting published trek is one of the most difficult jobs i have ever experienced and like i said i was once a salesman for scam products i was also at one time an over the road truck driver which in my opinion is one of the most strenuous jobs on the face of the earth god bless the truck drivers no really they are amazing human beings alone 24 7 in the cab of a truck you call home with no one to talk to but the wankers on the cv radio the trolls of the pavement and maybe just maybe some family when your available hours to talk coincide with the hours they are awake and then there is the schedule no free time in truck driving very little at most your work is literally your life all day everyday it is a lifestyle a very challenging way of life to say getting published is more trying than trucking says a lot about this industry i have chosen to pursue in conclusion if you are interested in writing a book of whatever kind just remember that the actual writing part is the tip of the iceburg in the world of words so if you are pushing the creativity off don t any longer just write write anything and write it from the heart just do it no matter what it is let it out no more procrastinating there s no time for that the hardest part of being a writer has yet to come good luck folks and god speed ian why did i write this book and how may 25 2017 ian cardenas fiction writer leave a comment so i wrote a book big red yonder it took five years and ended up being over 500 pages and 363 228 words by the end of my third draft the following post is a brief summary as to why i wrote my novel and why i have spent so much time on a piece of literature that i am not even sure will amount to much for years i had been living in a state of mind and body that has caused me exposure to what i considered after much reflection to be an existential crisis enduring a seemingly endless stream of detrimental surroundings and unfortunate circumstances i made the realization that the only truly reliable escape from the external suffering i was facing was the solitude of my psyche it was here in the deepest realms of my mentality that my tormenting conditions transformed into a profoundly inventive state that i can only describe as being channeled by something otherworldly or more realistically utter desperation whatever the reason through the surge of my new fangled inspiration and creativity i dramatically poured all of my heart and soul into this literary fiction work much of the story developed during my initial draft of the book came from a kind of stream of conscience method of writing i don t know what i was thinking during much of the time i wrote this draft and much of what was written must have come from somewhere deep within my brain either my subconscious or due to some kind of mania causing me to come up with ideas that i never in my wildest dreams thought would be written by me let alone anyone else the numerous themes stories and situations within the plot of big red yonder made sense in the first draft surprisingly but they did not fully connect to each other in an understandable way at times so in my second draft i put all of the plot points together into a format easier to comprehend for readers and made all of the various facets of the book connect make sense and have a purpose in the story however during this draft i did not change the literary style whatsoever i made the decision early on that my unique style works well and separates me from other writers i don t know if this choice will help me or not when getting published for many publishers may not want to deal with a novel written in such a poetic and often crazy for lack of a better work style who knows we will see in my third draft i went through my manuscript and edited the story a bit deleting some parts i didn t think were important to the story and adding others that i felt would better support my story and join everything together making the novel a smoother read for others i also changed some of my wording to make the book more understandable however what i did not change much was my use of punctuation or the general flow of my novel this is because i feel in many ways that my use of punctuation and my chosen flow for the book gives its a doorway to my individual voice as an author in many respects i d like to think big red yonder is written in an ernest hemingway kind of way there are many other authors who do this but he is probably someone everyone has heard of where the silly rules for writing the ones i learned in grade school do not apply again i can only hope there is a publisher out there that sees the potential my novel has as a literary work even with my atypical choice of prose and composition so yeah that was basically my reasoning for writing this eccentric book and how i did it i hope for the best but i never will expect the worst big red yonder will be published one way or another one day literary agent rejection letters may 25 2017 may 25 2017 ian cardenas fiction writer leave a comment so far i have gotten two rejection letters from literary agencies and have not heard back from several others of course i just started sending out these letters as of last week so i don t expect all of them to get back to me so soon nevertheless rejection is always difficult but in the world of writing books it happens constantly i don t take it personally i just move on however i am a little apprehensive about the state of the query letters i ve been writing for those who don t know query letters are the letters that writers send to literary agents to try and get them to represent their book and help them get published am i doing something wrong i ve been following the formatting guidelines that i have read about during my research on this subject and i believe i am writing proper query letters but i am thinking i could make them better truly i am unsure perhaps it is just the book itself that the literary agents don t think will be worth their while or perhaps there is something more i could do to reel these agents in so that they will want to represent me who knows this is a journey and i am learning as i go if anyone has recommendations for me they would be greatly appreciated if anyone has gone through this process before i would love to hear from you ian my novel s unofficial plot outline may 25 2017 may 25 2017 ian cardenas fiction writer leave a comment so one of my blog posts was a synopsis of my book but i just don t think it did my book justice i have been having issues writing up what i feel like is a great summary for big red yonder i have been sending out query letters to literary agents with a new and improved book synopsis not the same as the one i posted in my first blog post but i still don t think the new one is that great any advice is welcome for this anyway i figured i would outline some of the plot of my novel anyone who is interested two small town kids with completely different personalities meet each other in elementary school because they are bo...