Ep. 214: Four Clamshell Boxes

I expanded my skill set to include clamshell boxes, learning and improving at each box. A success story. Why? Well, let me tell you my plan. I write a book (currently I’m working on Giapan, see below.). After I write it, I case it in nicely and finally, I make a clamshell box for it. It all becomes beautiful! And fun. 

Also, I am attempting things I have not done in the past or not done well. I believe this is called stepping out of  your comfort zone; I prefer to call it improving. Or expanding my skill set. About a month ago I did some conservation work which is something I have never done. My skill set aided me in successfully doing the conservation work. More knowledge, despite what some politicians say, is a good thing.

Next week: My first tunnel book.

Fiction

I have been writing quite a bit on Giapan, a Quixotic Love Story. In fact I have added a whole new chapter that follows Cervantes’ Don Quixote. It is separate from the main story, takes place not in 1600 Spain but in 1590 Nagasaki, follows not the main characters but a defrocked Portuguese priest Giapan meets in a café owned by the former priest and his wife. A Love story, if you will. This added about 6,000 plus words or, in terms of a reader, about ten pages.

I have also been writing on a book that is more than half-finished. Fear Zero. In Fear Zero, the main character of the Fear Trilogy is in prison for murdering his mother. He savagely defends himself against guards and inmates. He is soon regarded as a fierce and merciless fighter. He has six to eight more years in prison. He is ten years old. Fear Zero is the prequel book to the Fear Trilogy which takes the main character from age ten to when he is an elder statesmen seeking to alter the course of a war.

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