Mental Exhaustion

Mar 31

A combat scene popped in my head for the pending manuscript UNITY ONE "Paradise Lost"

I started writing the dialogue when this line popped in my head: "They're going to try to shoot us down..." An hour later, and 8 sheets of scrap paper later I was still writing. I had to stop because I was making breakfast, at 1 pm and working on the cast of characters for "Texting to Death". I also had the current manuscript "Training a Titan" open because I had delusions of completing chapter 5 today...NOT!

After finishing breakfast I was mentally exhausted. The scene for UNITY ONE was so intense and powerful it took everything out of my widdle brain and left me drained. I was astonished that I couldn't stop myself. I had to force myself to stop to make sure what I was writing made as much sense as it did while I was writing.

I learned a long time ago, that when you're writing it seems as if you're writing a finished, edited book, but when you go over it you will say WTF? This was not the case. I'm very pleased.

The 60 minutes I spent on that scene creation, which will be the ending chapter of the first installment, was equivalent to 5 days of writing.

Jerrimiah Stonecastle

Stonecastle Publications

"Throwing Stones at a Glass House"

Jerrimiah Stonecastle

Born and raised in the slums of New York, he was raised by a single mom who earned her Master's in Early Childhood Development while working as a teacher's aide. She sent young Jerrimiah to the prestigious Power Memorial Academy for Boys, the Alma mater of NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He worked part-time after school to help his mom pay for his tuition.

He declined a full scholarship from Concordia University and joined the US Army and became a combat medic. He returned to New York upon his discharge where he was hired by the NYC Chief Medical Examiner’s Office as a medical stenographer.

In 1982 he joined the New York City Police Department. In 1983 he was recruited by the Organized Crime Control Bureau (OCCB) as an undercover officer in their narcotics division. He finished out his career as a detective assigned to the Bronx Homicide Task Force.

When he retired in 2002, he relocated to Florida to pursue his passion for writing. After hundreds of rejection letters and reading Amanda Hocking's story, he decided to self-publish his own works. In 2016 he formed Stonecastle Publications LLC and has published 30 books so far. He has an additional 400 fiction and nonfiction novels in draft form in his company's literary vault.

On October 31, 2018, He launched his first horror novel "FRANKENSTINA" and released the sequel "FRANKENSTINA REBORN" on Halloween 2019. There are two more books in the horology.

On March 7, 2023, he received the Literary Titan Book Award for the apocalyptic thriller "A Flash of Light".

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"Throwing Stones At a Glass House"

https://jerrimiahstonecastle.org/

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