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Mljet, Croatia

"We zoomed down the mountain on our moped into Prozura, the small fishing town nestled comfortably on the banks of a cove surrounded by islands. Upon arriving into the village, the road that dually served as a sidewalk, quickly turned into one lane. I felt like I was in a video game as I weaved past street vendors, fishermen hauling their daily catch, parked cars that looked like they were from the 80’s and waitresses walking between their cafes and the patio seating on the water. I sped under a fortress-like arch made of stone and skidded to a halt outside of the last cafe in the village. Call me Bond, (Kyle) James Bond."

31 DAYS GUYS. WE CAN DEFINITELY DO THIS!

Well it’s Thursday, and with that comes another update from yours truly.

As promised yesterday FRIDAY EVENING has been posted. Before you read I just want to let you know that this is not the entire chapter, this is a set-up. It’s still in draft form and may change, but what you will read in this chapter is a bit of a backstory on Bruce Archer and a creature he once encountered while visiting Cape’s Side Bay. The piece does not end on a cliffhanger so much, but gives you an idea (a small one) of what the people of Hillsbury and Cape’s Side Bay are up against (Some of you may have noticed a new cover design. It will make more sense after reading Friday Evening).

Once the pre-order launch is in full swing I will post the rest of the chapter. 

This opening to Friday Evening was one I really enjoyed writing. I wanted to go back in time for a little while and explain that there has always  been something strange going on in Cape’s Side Bay, it’s just been in hiding all this time.

Here’s another picture sketched out by my friend. This is of Victor and his son while teaching him to hunt in Friday Afternoon.

Look for pre-orders of Cape’s Side tomorrow evening!

As always please help spread the word (and a BIG thank you to those who have), and please comment and let’s engage in a discussion about Cape’s Side Bay. 

Enjoy your Thursday!

James

Currently pulling double-duty as the "About" portion of the project page

I’m writing an epic collection of poetry 

I’m not entirely sure why except that I got the idea for this project and I cannot for the life of me let it go ... ever. 

There will be one line of verse for every second in a twelve-hour period. Why? That’s a long old story that started with a movie, got warped by a job hunt, and then cut in half by the grace of God.

Every poem will be based on a fairy tale (starting with the Brothers Grimm as translated by Ralph Mannheim), and every line will be five syllables long (to match the phrase "once upon a time").

Let’s talk a little about numbers

Did you know that the second-hand and the minute-hand meet 59 times every hour? The equation to find the meetings is:
S=(60M)/59

Or that the minute-hand and the hour-hand meet 11 times in a twelve-hour trip around the ol’clock’s face? The equation for that is:
M=(60H)/11

I know these things because the information is available all over the place online. Know what isn’t available? The number of times the second-hand meets the hour-hand every twelve hours.

The equation for that isn’t available either. Not unless you go to an old blog of mine to which I have not intention of linking so I’ll just tell you the hard-won answers I figured out back on a day I spent in bed and in my jim-jams even though it was way too warm for jim-jams and I needed a shower and the too-warm jim-jams were not helping.

The second-hand and the hour-hand meet 719 unique times every twelve hours and the equation for that is:
S=60((60H)+M)/719

Why these numbers matter

At 46,800 lines of verse that’s at least 2,128 pages measuring 4x6 inches with one-inch margins. That’s a bit much for a single volume.

So, the eleven meetings of the minute-hand and hour-hand will be the final line of the final poem in each of the resulting eleven volumes of poetry, while all the other meetings (second-hand and minute-hand, second-hand and hour-hand) will mark the ends of every other poem in the collection.

This should break up the collection into eleven 200-sh-page volumes of about 130 poems each (with line counts ranging from 1 to 60).

But, why? Because I’d love to.