First thing, first. A lot of people have asked me about my health. I am doing great. I have been a little sick lately and my shoulder is still injured, but I have no lingering effects from the aneurysm. It is now over a year and all is good!
So far, this year has been good as well, except for the fact that I am well behind in stuff I wanted to have done by now. There are really two reasons for this. One is the fact that I have undertaken a massive personal project that is taking quite some time. Something I am hoping to be finished with this week.
This is something that should have been done years ago, but is being done now.
The other reason is just a lack of focus on getting stuff done. I had to slow done for my recovery in ALL of 2014, I was unable to do a lot of things, and was under doctor orders NOT to do things (such as lift weights). I have gotten so used to the recovery phase of my life that I am not getting things done like I used to.
But that too will change, for the better.
This week I am going to start getting caught up – with a focus on my online blogs and presence. I have gotten behind on Wrestlementary, The Burning Mind, True Story and What I Watch. This week and next week I plan on getting these caught up and back on track.
With everything that happen last year, I look at it this way, if the only real issue I have is being behind on plan, then life is GOOD.
Ace Masters.
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Welcome to 2015
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the New Year we now call 2015.
I have written about 2014 and my experience that year ad nausea. I will not forget what happen, will always guard against its return, but it is no factor in my moving forward.
This year, I will accomplish all my goals for last year, and all planned for this year.
Achieving those goals starts today, with the return of old blogs and the launching of new ones.
My first and main goal in this year is to focus on my writing, which is why the blogs. Please pay attention to my Facebook (facebook.com/theacemasters) page as I will be launching the new blogs, and posting to the old ones for the first time in 2015, periodically over the course of this 1st of the year.
The blogs serve a few purposes, but mostly to help me focus on actually writing, managing my time, and help improve my writing skills.
My secondary focus is studying art. A discipline I am going to return to with near as much ferocity as I will on my writing.
Those are my two main goals for the year, but they set the foundation for all my goals this year: Improving all aspects of my life and moving forward in my career more than I have in years.
It is going to be a long year, 365 days. It is going to be a good year. I am going to make it that way.
Come on Join me for the Ride!
Ace Masters
I have written about 2014 and my experience that year ad nausea. I will not forget what happen, will always guard against its return, but it is no factor in my moving forward.
This year, I will accomplish all my goals for last year, and all planned for this year.
Achieving those goals starts today, with the return of old blogs and the launching of new ones.
My first and main goal in this year is to focus on my writing, which is why the blogs. Please pay attention to my Facebook (facebook.com/theacemasters) page as I will be launching the new blogs, and posting to the old ones for the first time in 2015, periodically over the course of this 1st of the year.
The blogs serve a few purposes, but mostly to help me focus on actually writing, managing my time, and help improve my writing skills.
My secondary focus is studying art. A discipline I am going to return to with near as much ferocity as I will on my writing.
Those are my two main goals for the year, but they set the foundation for all my goals this year: Improving all aspects of my life and moving forward in my career more than I have in years.
It is going to be a long year, 365 days. It is going to be a good year. I am going to make it that way.
Come on Join me for the Ride!
Ace Masters
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
The End of the Year, The End of Fear
Hello All!
As I post this there is 6 hours left in 2014 (Arizona Time). While the turning of the calendar and the idea of starting anew is subjective, I am truly looking forward to turning a new page and starting a new year, and literally trying to ‘start anew.’
I am doing great, and 2014 has truly ended on a good note, and as a good year. However, it didn’t start out so well.
Starting out a year by flatling is not a good thing. I did exactly that on January 29, and spent a nice 17-day vacation in Good Samaritan hospital. I spent most of this year recovering, with a lot of people in fear that it would happen again.
Oddly, I wasn’t one of them.
This year was utterly derailed because of the aneurysm, both mentally and physically I had to rest, take care, and literally NOT do many of the things I had planned.
The thing that bugged me the most this past year wasn’t the aneurysm itself, or the numerous angiogram follow ups. It was a handful of people who continually insisted that this experience had to have ‘changed me.’
They can’t seem to grasp not only how good I am doing, but how I am the same person I have always been.
I look upon what happened like this, it happened, I dealt with it. I lived. I live. That’s it.
If it had any impact on me in ‘changing me’ it was this, I believe life is for LIVING, this incident just affirmed that even more. So, that is what I do LIVE.
2014 was derailed, but ended up a good year.
I am looking positively foward to 2015. I have the train back on the tracks, heading forward full steam.
My personal motto:
“I never lose, I never fail, I never falter
I learn, I evolve, I grow stronger.”
Ace Masters.
As I post this there is 6 hours left in 2014 (Arizona Time). While the turning of the calendar and the idea of starting anew is subjective, I am truly looking forward to turning a new page and starting a new year, and literally trying to ‘start anew.’
I am doing great, and 2014 has truly ended on a good note, and as a good year. However, it didn’t start out so well.
Starting out a year by flatling is not a good thing. I did exactly that on January 29, and spent a nice 17-day vacation in Good Samaritan hospital. I spent most of this year recovering, with a lot of people in fear that it would happen again.
Oddly, I wasn’t one of them.
This year was utterly derailed because of the aneurysm, both mentally and physically I had to rest, take care, and literally NOT do many of the things I had planned.
The thing that bugged me the most this past year wasn’t the aneurysm itself, or the numerous angiogram follow ups. It was a handful of people who continually insisted that this experience had to have ‘changed me.’
They can’t seem to grasp not only how good I am doing, but how I am the same person I have always been.
I look upon what happened like this, it happened, I dealt with it. I lived. I live. That’s it.
If it had any impact on me in ‘changing me’ it was this, I believe life is for LIVING, this incident just affirmed that even more. So, that is what I do LIVE.
2014 was derailed, but ended up a good year.
I am looking positively foward to 2015. I have the train back on the tracks, heading forward full steam.
My personal motto:
“I never lose, I never fail, I never falter
I learn, I evolve, I grow stronger.”
Ace Masters.
Monday, December 1, 2014
December 1st
Hey Yo.
Well, if you read my post back on November 1st you would know that I had planned on unofficially doing the National Novel Writing Month challenge. I had also planned on posting daily word counts to Facebook and weekly notes on this blog.
Unfortunately, little of that happened because I suffered a shoulder and arm injury on the second. The injury, which is still healing, caused massive muscle swelling, crushing the nerves in my arm. This caused me a lot of pain, even when writing.
The unfortunate news is I didn’t make the 50,000 word count. The good news is I did make 30,000.
This is NOT a failure. This month was a success. If not for the arm injury, I would have shattered the 50,000 word count. I also succeeded in what I really wanted to do, kick start myself back into writing.
And boy, did it feel good to be writing again. I have done some writing this year, but this was the first real creative writing, fiction writing. Not writing reviews or commentary.
The Book of Sven Vaunder is taking shape, and may not have been a good choice for the challenge. I thought I could write this as a novella, but it is going to be more than that. It has also started to take on a life and depth that I didn’t expect, and that is a good thing.
Now it is time for the holidays. So have fun and rejoice.
I can’t wait for 2015!
Ace Masters
Well, if you read my post back on November 1st you would know that I had planned on unofficially doing the National Novel Writing Month challenge. I had also planned on posting daily word counts to Facebook and weekly notes on this blog.
Unfortunately, little of that happened because I suffered a shoulder and arm injury on the second. The injury, which is still healing, caused massive muscle swelling, crushing the nerves in my arm. This caused me a lot of pain, even when writing.
The unfortunate news is I didn’t make the 50,000 word count. The good news is I did make 30,000.
This is NOT a failure. This month was a success. If not for the arm injury, I would have shattered the 50,000 word count. I also succeeded in what I really wanted to do, kick start myself back into writing.
And boy, did it feel good to be writing again. I have done some writing this year, but this was the first real creative writing, fiction writing. Not writing reviews or commentary.
The Book of Sven Vaunder is taking shape, and may not have been a good choice for the challenge. I thought I could write this as a novella, but it is going to be more than that. It has also started to take on a life and depth that I didn’t expect, and that is a good thing.
Now it is time for the holidays. So have fun and rejoice.
I can’t wait for 2015!
Ace Masters
Saturday, November 8, 2014
THE BOOK OF SVEN VAUNDER UPDATE #1
11/8/2014
Well, if anyone read my State of the Master post last Friday, then you know about my Novel Challenge and that I said I would post daily word count updates to my Facebook and full updates each Saturday.
This is the first full update. Unfortunately, my writing on the book of Sven Vaunder has not gone well, and not because of any writer’s block. Sometime last Saturday afternoon I injured my right arm, causing a lot of swelling and crushing a nerve.
This has been causing me a lot of pain and numbness in my hand. It will heal and be fine, but it has prevented me from writing as much as I wanted, and from doing many other things. I can write for a little while, but then my hand starts to hurt. Being right handed makes it worse.
So to this point, I have written a little over 4,000 words, a far cry from the 2,000 words a day I wanted. Tomorrow is a new week, and I will pick it up. I survived a brain aneurysm. I can easily survive this.
Next week I plan to have a much better update and a far better word count.
Well, if anyone read my State of the Master post last Friday, then you know about my Novel Challenge and that I said I would post daily word count updates to my Facebook and full updates each Saturday.
This is the first full update. Unfortunately, my writing on the book of Sven Vaunder has not gone well, and not because of any writer’s block. Sometime last Saturday afternoon I injured my right arm, causing a lot of swelling and crushing a nerve.
This has been causing me a lot of pain and numbness in my hand. It will heal and be fine, but it has prevented me from writing as much as I wanted, and from doing many other things. I can write for a little while, but then my hand starts to hurt. Being right handed makes it worse.
So to this point, I have written a little over 4,000 words, a far cry from the 2,000 words a day I wanted. Tomorrow is a new week, and I will pick it up. I survived a brain aneurysm. I can easily survive this.
Next week I plan to have a much better update and a far better word count.
Saturday, November 1, 2014
Order of Business
Welcome to my first State of the Master Blog entry for November. Actually, this is my fourth Blog entry for today in total, considering The Burning Mind and Wrestlementary. Yeah me, for multiple blog entries.
There is something I want to state upfront, I am happy, and I have a great life and great friends (Dave Parrish, Ken Brown and Sue Brown, Chris Rose, Ken chancellor, Clay Stubblefield, to name a few), just wanted to mention that.
Okay, I want to get the least orders of business out of the way first:
Burning Mind – I have posted a State of the Burning Mind blog today, mostly concerning the hiatus of the blog: http://skullablaze.blogspot.com/2014/11/state-of-burning-mind.html
Wrestlementary – A State of Wrestlementary blog has gone up as well, giving some details of plans for the future of the blog: http://wrestlementary.blogspot.com/2014/11/state-of-wrestlementary.html
The main order of business for this post, and this month, is National Novel Writing Month. As of this posting I am not entering the official contest (I’m disqualified according to the rules), but I am going to take the challenge. For those who don’t know, National Novel Writing Month is a challenge/contest to write a 50,000-word novel.
I don’t care about entering the contest, or winning prizes. This isn’t a hobby for me. Writing is my life. I am taking the challenge to kick-start myself back into writing fiction after a long year. My goal is to reach 60,000 words by November 30, 2000 words a day.
I will chronicle my progress on this blog and my Facebook. At 12AM every day, I will post the amount of words I have written that day, and the total words count to that date on Facebook. Every Saturday evening, I will post an update on my progress to this blog.
I will not be posting this novel online anywhere, so anyone following this will have to take me on faith. I do however plan to submit this novel to publishers when ready.
The story I am going to write is entitled The Book of Sven Vaunder. This is a concept that came to me last Sunday night, while I sat outside, staring at the stars and sipping on a coke. It is a fantasy story that will be written in first person and told as a series of journal entries, memoir style.
As I wrote above, I am taking this more as a personal challenge. I need to do this. This year has been tough, and a long recovery. I plan to make this my spring broad back into taking my writing seriously again and moving it up to the next level. A level I have not been at for quite some while.
Ace Masters.
There is something I want to state upfront, I am happy, and I have a great life and great friends (Dave Parrish, Ken Brown and Sue Brown, Chris Rose, Ken chancellor, Clay Stubblefield, to name a few), just wanted to mention that.
Okay, I want to get the least orders of business out of the way first:
Burning Mind – I have posted a State of the Burning Mind blog today, mostly concerning the hiatus of the blog: http://skullablaze.blogspot.com/2014/11/state-of-burning-mind.html
Wrestlementary – A State of Wrestlementary blog has gone up as well, giving some details of plans for the future of the blog: http://wrestlementary.blogspot.com/2014/11/state-of-wrestlementary.html
The main order of business for this post, and this month, is National Novel Writing Month. As of this posting I am not entering the official contest (I’m disqualified according to the rules), but I am going to take the challenge. For those who don’t know, National Novel Writing Month is a challenge/contest to write a 50,000-word novel.
I don’t care about entering the contest, or winning prizes. This isn’t a hobby for me. Writing is my life. I am taking the challenge to kick-start myself back into writing fiction after a long year. My goal is to reach 60,000 words by November 30, 2000 words a day.
I will chronicle my progress on this blog and my Facebook. At 12AM every day, I will post the amount of words I have written that day, and the total words count to that date on Facebook. Every Saturday evening, I will post an update on my progress to this blog.
I will not be posting this novel online anywhere, so anyone following this will have to take me on faith. I do however plan to submit this novel to publishers when ready.
The story I am going to write is entitled The Book of Sven Vaunder. This is a concept that came to me last Sunday night, while I sat outside, staring at the stars and sipping on a coke. It is a fantasy story that will be written in first person and told as a series of journal entries, memoir style.
As I wrote above, I am taking this more as a personal challenge. I need to do this. This year has been tough, and a long recovery. I plan to make this my spring broad back into taking my writing seriously again and moving it up to the next level. A level I have not been at for quite some while.
Ace Masters.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
The Past, The Now, and the Upcoming
First thing I want to mention is that I am in Great Health, Great Spirits and have GREAT NEWS!
Three weeks ago (Wednesday September 10) I had my second angiogram since being released from the Hospital. It is probably my fourth or fifth Angiogram over all. Last Thursday (September 25) I had the follow up appointment with Doctor David Wilson (who performed the operation on my brain aneurysm), and received the results.
I have been given the all clear and a clean bill of health. There has been no growth in the blood vessel and no return of the aneurysm. The doctors have scaled me back to only needing an Angiogram once a year. So, I don’t need another one until next September!
Thank you to all who have said a prayer and for everyone’s thoughts and well wishes.
I labeled this post The Past, The Now, and the Upcoming
The aneurysm is now part of THE PAST. Of course, I am going to keep an eye on it.
If the aneurysm had any lasting effect on me this year, it was knocking this year off course. I have not really accomplished what I wanted to do this year. In fact, I fell into a usual trap for me, one I try to avoid. That trap being that I spend so much time trying to get caught up, that I don’t get anywhere.
That brings me to THE NOW. I have decided to let go of what hasn’t been accomplished this year, and to focus on what to accomplish. To that end, I have scaled back what I am going to be working on for the rest of this year and focus on getting 2015 kicked off perfectly.
For the Now, my focus is mainly going to be on the From My Heart to Your Health comic book anthology, the Wrestlementary blog, working on my artwork and enjoying the upcoming holidays. I am also considering one major project I have never undertaken before.
THE BURNING MIND: The Burning Mind is my comic book blog, which really got derailed. I planned an article a week and a review a week. But that didn’t happen. I have tried to get caught up with the reviews, but am so far behind it is just getting ridiculous.
So, effective today, over the course of October, I will post all the reviews I currently have done, then I will put The Burning Mind in a two-month hiatus. It is not going away. It will relaunch on January 1, 2015.
WRESTLEMENTARY: Along with my fellow Pro Wrestling fans and friends Dave Parrish, Chris Rose and Wes Kozalla, we have the Wrestlementary blog rocking and popping. This blog is not going anywhere. Working on Wrestlementary has really helped me to get back into the swing of writing.
NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH: This is the Major Project I am considering. I may take part in National Novel Writing Month in November. I haven’t completely made up my mind, or what story I will write.
If I do partake, I will chronicle my progress on this blog.
THE UPCOMING, by this I mean 2015. I am already preparing for 2015, and have a laser like focus on what I plan to accomplish. 2015 will be dedicated to my writing. Everything I do is just an extension of my writing. I am a writer, first and foremost.
This focus isn’t just writing itself, it is also studying writing, enhancing my skills and perhaps learning new ones.
On this note, I also plan to launch a new blog on January 1, to be called Raw Flesh. This idea is to post 500 to 1000 words every week on a story I will tell over the course of the year. What that story will be I have no idea, I may just write it stream of consciousness.
Raw Flesh basically means that what will be posted will be unedited.
I may launch a second blog in July, where I will focus on posting Flash Fiction.
This past January, I launched a few other blog besides this one, Burning Mind and Wrestlementary. I will start writing for these blogs in 2015.
The aneurysm may have slowed me down a little bit and derailed some plans, but it didn’t stop me. I’m getting back on track and will be going faster than ever before.
Ace Masters.
Three weeks ago (Wednesday September 10) I had my second angiogram since being released from the Hospital. It is probably my fourth or fifth Angiogram over all. Last Thursday (September 25) I had the follow up appointment with Doctor David Wilson (who performed the operation on my brain aneurysm), and received the results.
I have been given the all clear and a clean bill of health. There has been no growth in the blood vessel and no return of the aneurysm. The doctors have scaled me back to only needing an Angiogram once a year. So, I don’t need another one until next September!
Thank you to all who have said a prayer and for everyone’s thoughts and well wishes.
I labeled this post The Past, The Now, and the Upcoming
The aneurysm is now part of THE PAST. Of course, I am going to keep an eye on it.
If the aneurysm had any lasting effect on me this year, it was knocking this year off course. I have not really accomplished what I wanted to do this year. In fact, I fell into a usual trap for me, one I try to avoid. That trap being that I spend so much time trying to get caught up, that I don’t get anywhere.
That brings me to THE NOW. I have decided to let go of what hasn’t been accomplished this year, and to focus on what to accomplish. To that end, I have scaled back what I am going to be working on for the rest of this year and focus on getting 2015 kicked off perfectly.
For the Now, my focus is mainly going to be on the From My Heart to Your Health comic book anthology, the Wrestlementary blog, working on my artwork and enjoying the upcoming holidays. I am also considering one major project I have never undertaken before.
THE BURNING MIND: The Burning Mind is my comic book blog, which really got derailed. I planned an article a week and a review a week. But that didn’t happen. I have tried to get caught up with the reviews, but am so far behind it is just getting ridiculous.
So, effective today, over the course of October, I will post all the reviews I currently have done, then I will put The Burning Mind in a two-month hiatus. It is not going away. It will relaunch on January 1, 2015.
WRESTLEMENTARY: Along with my fellow Pro Wrestling fans and friends Dave Parrish, Chris Rose and Wes Kozalla, we have the Wrestlementary blog rocking and popping. This blog is not going anywhere. Working on Wrestlementary has really helped me to get back into the swing of writing.
NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH: This is the Major Project I am considering. I may take part in National Novel Writing Month in November. I haven’t completely made up my mind, or what story I will write.
If I do partake, I will chronicle my progress on this blog.
THE UPCOMING, by this I mean 2015. I am already preparing for 2015, and have a laser like focus on what I plan to accomplish. 2015 will be dedicated to my writing. Everything I do is just an extension of my writing. I am a writer, first and foremost.
This focus isn’t just writing itself, it is also studying writing, enhancing my skills and perhaps learning new ones.
On this note, I also plan to launch a new blog on January 1, to be called Raw Flesh. This idea is to post 500 to 1000 words every week on a story I will tell over the course of the year. What that story will be I have no idea, I may just write it stream of consciousness.
Raw Flesh basically means that what will be posted will be unedited.
I may launch a second blog in July, where I will focus on posting Flash Fiction.
This past January, I launched a few other blog besides this one, Burning Mind and Wrestlementary. I will start writing for these blogs in 2015.
The aneurysm may have slowed me down a little bit and derailed some plans, but it didn’t stop me. I’m getting back on track and will be going faster than ever before.
Ace Masters.
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