Hey Yo,
I hope everyone out there is good. I am . . . something, still trying to figure out what. I am having an odd but somewhat good year so far, but that it normal for me.
My social media life has been here and there this year. I have had long stretches of activity, then I suddenly go quiet. Again, sorta par for the course for me.
My life has always been this way, just as I get things going, or get caught up, LIFE interferes. It’s has a bad habit of doing that.
At the end of March I was all caught up, my blogs were on time, I was getting more active, then BANG Life interferes again. Only this time it wasn’t something that happened to me. It was also something that I couldn’t ignore and had to deal with. If I didn’t, well I’d just be a piece of shit.
On April 2 my mother fell and badly hurt her foot. She is not that old (early ‘60’s) and is in good shape, but still, she hurt her foot pretty bad. Bad enough that we went for a trip to emergency. Initially we were told it was a high grade 1st degree sprain, then an idiot misread an MRI and diagnosed her with a broken foot.
Long story short, she never had a broken foot, but badly sprained and pulled the muscles in her foot. She spent a week unable to walk, and we didn’t work for three weeks. I put things on hold to take care of her and allow her foot to heal. Which it is doing at a nice pace.
I couldn’t do anything less then take care of her during this time, not after who she looked after me with my aneurysm last year.
Now that things are better, I plan on getting back on track with projects and blogs this Monday, June 1.
I have not yet made up my mind if I am going to do catch-up on my blogs like I did before, or just start fresh.
Anyway, good news is my mom is getting better and her foot is healing.
Now, personally, I just need to get my ass in gear. Even though I have recovered from my aneurysm, I having some issues with get-up-and-go. I need to get back into shape and lose a few inches and pounds, and I really need to get back into writing and filmmaking.
Later.
Ace Masters
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Welcome All, to the newest State of the Master Blog.
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.
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.
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.
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