Imagine that! Yes, I took a day this weekend, Easter weekend, and made a Substack account and made my first post. I spent a lot of time spiffing it up with colors and such and then, for some reason, poof! No colors. Just my luck. So OK, we go with basic black text on a white background. Not so bad, right?
My Substack account is: pathauldren.substack.com
Well, when I go to that url, it is in color. I cleaned house this weekend, I wonder if the Windex got to my brain? LOL So I am in a bit of color, OK! Well, I’m a happy camper.
I have both a FREE account and a PAID account at $5.00 / month. I’m not sure how that will work for me, as I suppose readers would have to either know me and want to support me or be fans of my book. It’s worth a shot, but know that 99% of my material, for now, is FREE. I have nothing Earth shattering to say, like I’m not gonna inform my audience about physics or philosophy or politics (never, ever politics, yuck!), and all that. But what I will do is offer insight into my writing process, my research, cool stuff I discovered, and alpha and beta reads.
Once I get deep into the novel and ready to publish, and after publishing, I think that’s when I’ll begin developing the paid section where I can put deleted scenes, altered scenes, behind the scenes, story bible information, and anything else that I think would be real “fan reader” information. For readers who want to deep dive into my writing and my writing life (why life at this point? have no idea, I mean, I sit at a desk, right? LOL) but hey, someday, I’m gonna be famous! At this point however, do not fret. I have very little of anything that anyone would pay for, except my writing workshops.
Speaking of workshops! I just finished presenting a workshop online called Worldbuilding Wizardry at FFPRWA.com, (Fantasy, Futuristic, & Paranormal Romance Writers of America), and I had a blast! We used my WIP workbook, Your Cosmic Kitchen: A Worldbuilding Wizardry Workbook for Speculative Fiction Writers, and got some great feedback on editing it as well as using it for the class lessons. The students were great. We had Zoom chats on Sundays where they could discuss problems and ask questions. I had fun and I think the students did too.
I also took a class and learned a ton! Make It Dark presented by June Diehl was…wow! She is an amazing instructor. She’s also a writing coach and mentor and I think I’m gonna take her up on that. I ran a few chapter of The Angel Project through the class and got some kick butt feedback. Can’t wait until I finish this cookbook workbook and get it published (goal is end of April, if I don’t go nutso by then LOL) to return fully back to editing the novel. If you get an opportunity to take a class with June Diehl, take it! You won’t regret it.
I get so excited about writing! Well, and editing but that’s not as much fun as writing the draft where I can let my imagination go crazy. I took most of this weekend off from writing to do some social media updates, create the Substack account, and actually clean some house! I let it go so very long it is awful. Do y’all do that? So this weekend, Easter weekend, is mostly cleaning and while I’m ingesting my caffeine I’m updating my blog and such, and then, back to cleaning. (I think Disability/Social Security should automatically supply a housekeeper.)
So, let me show you a bit of what I posted over on Substack, then I’ll get back to cleaning and organizing a bit, then I’ll get tired, and sit back down at the computer and do something else.
The Ones Who Fell Before
Strange Truths About Fallen Angels Most People Never Learn
Most of y’all know that my current WIP novel, The Angel Project: Emergence, deals with angels and the Fallen Angels and Nephilim. Not in a religious way, but in a fantastical and science fiction way, using their Biblical history as story history in my novel.
And in doing so, I have done and continue to do a lot of research on angels and their history. Who they are, how they are described, where they came from, and so on depends on your resource. I try to widen my sources and learn as I go. I hope here and on my other sites that you can enjoy a bit a knowledge about my research as well.
When most people picture Fallen Angels, they imagine Lucifer tumbling from heaven in a blaze of prideful glory — the Milton version, the dramatic operatic descent. But the mythology of fallen angels is far stranger, older, and more complicated than that single story. It reaches back to texts that never made it into the Christian Bible most people know, involves beings who fell not from pride but from desire, and raises theological questions that theologians have argued about for two thousand years.
Here’s what the mainstream narrative leaves out.
To read the rest of the article, go here: https://pathauldren.substack.com/p/the-ones-who-fell-before
If y’all are more experienced in these things–Substack, Patreon, Linkedin, and so on–and have some advice, gimme a shout at alleypat /at/ gmail.com. I’m learning as I go and hope to offer interesting stuff, not just drivel.
Now, time to clean. Not like I have any company coming. It’s Easter Sunday, but all my kids and grandkids are adults. One day, I’ll have greatgrandkids! And we can do the dye the eggs routine again. For now, I’m rather enjoying having the weekend to myself. Seriously y’all. Enjoy the break if you have it. Because if you’re like me, it won’t be long before that changes!
Spring has sprung in North Texas and I’m loving it. I wish you all the best! Keep writing.
