2020 Year Update

          This is an exciting year for people, some of it good and some of it bad. Personally speaking, July of this year is when I launched this website, and that makes this year a little better. I plan on deleting the previous monthly posts and compiling all of them into this one mega post that will last for as long as the website. That’s the plan for this year and future years. It allows me to utilize limited space and make sure that this site has things that you want.  

Suil-Nua: Our Village of New Hope

• This is a Fiction Book that I have been trying to get published for a while now 
  • It has been sent off to three different publishers I am waiting to hear back from the third
  • If rejected, I will take some time to triple check the chapters before I send my baby off again  
    • It does have an unusual combination of traits that people do not see often in fantasy books for teenagers/the early 20s 
      • This makes it unique but it also makes it harder to sell  
• Also, 2020 is turning into a disaster year for book publishers, resulting in first-time authors such as myself having severe difficulty
  • Outside of my Master’s Thesis in the Academic Realm, I have yet to publish books in the public realm 
• This work may be self-published in the future if that is it’s the best option for it to be released  
  • That is well into the future but if you want to support this work check out MY SUBSCRIBESTAR

Mango Book 

• The state of the Mango Book at the beginning of July could have been better 
  • Over 20 pages of notes, sources, extremely disorganized with multiple discrepancies among starting out this progress
  • Worst of all no plan, no benchmarks, no idea when the dream would be completed 
    • If this situation at the beginning of July was allowed to continue unchecked, it would have made a dream work a living nightmare 
• By the end of 2020, several things changed for this book 
  • Perhaps most importantly, this book is planned out with weekly goals to achieve writing this text
    • I have solid benchmarks when 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, and 100% of the book writing work is done
  • Writing-wise, this has gone from a pile of notes to a promising 2nd rough draft
    • It is expected to be checked at least for content, organization, consistency, grammar, formatting before it becomes a publishable final copy
  • There are some certainties about the book we can say tentatively
    • 50K+ words, containing a preface, around 10~15 chapters, bibliography, and a rough glossary, all in ‘pseudo’ chronological order
      • The idea is to talk about mango regions in easy to understand chunks rather than a hard outline for ease of understanding 
  • I am currently doing a preliminary content edit on the book and have successfully gone from the beginning of mango existence thousands of years ago to 1892 which is a good sign 
    • The book is planned to end in the year 2000, which means that there are only 108 years left to sort through however, the closer one gets to the modern-day, the slower things get
      • The year 2000 alone may take over three weeks alone to write, edit, polish and work through unlike the beginning sections where the same time could cover multiple chapters 
    • Once one starts getting into history that people have lived through it also makes matters complicated as not only is there some transition from historical to journalistic, and writing on ‘current events’ is a can of parasitic worms with little forgiveness
• Expected completion sometime in mid-2021, with beta reader edit’s complete late-2021 and ready to publish by very late 2021 or early 2022 
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A Botanist’s Guide for Genesis

• In July of this year, this book was nothing more than some notes, with half baked idea and even rawer sourcing 
  • Another living nightmare if things did not change 
• I made an overview of the book covering chapters 1-50 which made many things apparent and gave clarity to the task
  • Ch 1-10 if not Ch 1-12 were very dense and demanding in comparison to the rest of the book 
    • Those later chapters would only be ‘easier’ in comparison as they also are difficult 
  • Not every chapter references a plant but many chapters have 2+ references, meaning that I need to account for over 75 instances 
    • On the same reflection, there are many repeating parts which may cut the workload as much as 20-25%
  • Treating the texts as academically true would be the most beneficial method of working with the texts
    •  The atheist or non-denominal angle has been done to death, and a fresh perspective does sell 
• Knowing all of the above, I finalized a rough draft and began to work 
  • Unlike most works, heavily religious ones like this have a low tolerance for failure so not getting something right or leaving something unpolished would guarantee this book’s failure 
    • Every instance I talk about plants needed to be processed as if I was going to send it off for publication 
      • This has the added benefit when it comes to repeated things, like bread and wine, were doing it great once saves a lot of time 
  • This means one mammoth, meticulous overview and finalization of the content before grammar and formatting editing
• Currently, this book has the content of over 28 Chs finished!  
  • It’s less than half complete but I may finish this book before my mango one at this rate 
    • Finding a publisher is going to be a lot harder 

A Treatise on Yeeting the Stupid and Getting Both Smart and Wise 

• By July, I had a short book which is less than 50 pages intended on making people smarter and wiser by revealing methods to learn more and faster 
  • Short but dense with several pages of sources and its very potent 
  • It was a joy to finish as it was the third text, with my Thesis being the first, and Suil-Nua: Our Village of New Hope is the second work 
• Several Beta readers gave me great advice and helped to polished it to a greater level 
  • It was slow but worth it 
• While I looked online to search for publishers for the treatise, many publishing houses would not take it as it failed some if not several requirements 
  • It was too short for most publishers to take it on and might need to be released through alternative means 
    • These works are like children, as the parent you want them to grow up, leave the house and do something wonderful, thus making the world grateful it exists
      • Not publishing it is a bad idea, but It may need some unorthodox methods for publication  

Stories 

• Cosmic Gardener
  • It debuted this year with the first 10 Ch released 
    • 2 more Ch are planned to be released early next year
    • Future chapters can be released by signing up with MY SUBSCRIBESTAR 
• Descending White Death Mountain 
  • This also debuted this year with 4 Chs filled with horror and danger 
  • I have had several personal experiences along with intensive research that I am channeling into this work to make this fiction story the best story I can make  

Articles 

• I researched, compiled, corrected, polished, and released these articles on the website
  • To Make Perfect Food is Objectively Possible 
  • Granola Introduction 
  • Granola Grain 
  • The Glitched Halloween Article 
• Due to the intensity of researching, compiling, correcting, and polishing these articles, releases are slow 
  • Some articles don’t even make the cut at the moment for one reason or another 
    • Theses cut articles include 
      • The Metaphysics of Frost 
      • Pinto and Coffee: The Science of Bean Gas
      • A few others that I dare not mention at this time 

Non-writing achievements 

• I have passed my final oral exam, making me Sir. J. J. Bartel M. Sci. Plant Science 
  • Click on my thesis, The Role of Endophytes in Conferring Salinity Tolerance in Prairie Cordgrass and the Winter Wheat Mint Variety if you’re curious about it
• Non academically speaking, I got this website up and running, got MY SUBSCRIBESTAR ready, with plans to upload to youtube among other videos/audio websites
• I recently got a car, so I have been busy reading the manual, driving safely, and enjoying all the food places left open
• l also got a temporary job as a substitute teacher, and things are quite different now than when I was back in school