Archiver Butcher (Book 2 is Out!🔥)

It is with tremendous pleasure to be able to announce the publication of Aperture! amazon.com/dp/B0GV329ZRB There is paperback and ebook versions available! I simply hope that you are able to enjoy Joran's next leg of his journey. 🙏

@bluebirdariel Exactly! 👏 voices matter, and feedback matters! 👏

MORE PEOPLE SHOULD BE WRITING BOOK REVIEWS. I WANT TO HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS!!!!!!!!

@FilesFantasy Let me know, and thank you 🙏

@ArchiverButcher his page is @RJBayley, I'm sure his info is here, but let me see if I can get specifics for you

I see a lot of 'why books are bad now' from BookTubers, but they're always talking about the traditional realm. There are so many unique indie books that are doing something different. They are taking risks and not playing to profits or a commercial spin. If you are fed-up/bored of traditional publishing, seek out some indie authors! And if you want some recommendations? Hit me up in the comments.

Its a bit of a paraphrase (cause twitter), but its stuck with me quite hard.

One of THE best creative advices I have ever gotten was by Jan from Pchal, of all people. "Do your creative project, create it, spend time on it, and then finish it. The reason you aren't finishing it is because you want it to be perfect. But apply what you learn to the next."

On another note, Uglies is probably my favorite series that's "underrated." I'm just getting back into reading again alright? 😁

Scott Westerfield's "Uglies" I know they've gotten worn out with time, but its a powerful set of books for anyone who is a teenager in their formative years. Besides that, I am always going to recommend Rick Riordan's works. Sanderson is stuff I am just now reading!

As long as it's my copy, I'll dog ear it. To me as a writer, a worn out copy of my book makes me sentimental. But if its a library copy or another's, I am not tampering with stuff that isn't mine. 🙏

Or do make the same mistakes Every journey is different, all that matters is that you make it. So congrats on getting it done!! 🎊

Happy to provide material for such discussion. 😌 Took a good portion of my time writing Aperture trying to consciously avoid any narrative direction of morality. I simply had characters perform, and their peers react!

There are still people who ask “what’s the point of reading” and the best answer remains “because it’s FUN.” Fiction is a pleasure. Learning is a pleasure. Reading is not a chore but our greatest escape from the pressures & perils of living.

@FilesFantasy I am actually very interested in developing audio books formats for my books, but I am somewhat stumped on where to go for this. It's unfortunately a media format that eludes me 😅

@BrentMatley Indie was great a few years ago, but now no one wants to actually invest in their own work by getting audiobooks made, or god forbid getting an editor. There's some good ones out there, but it became tiresome to sift through the mountains of terrible.

@TheStarwald @BrentMatley @AuthorHMRead Absolutely phenomenal art covers by the way. Always fantastic getting to see such strong images 😁

@BrentMatley @AuthorHMRead Would you mine checking either of mine out?

Haha, who else can relate to this🤣❤️??

@Nicole_Lee_Sch 👋 1000 pages across two books, and not a single line is written by AI 😁 butchersarchives.com

If you're a creative who doesnt use genAI feel free to drop your info below. I want to fill my life with real writing, real art, real music.

It's incredible to be honest. Once you start directing them, and then suddenly you can feel their desire to do something, or to go somewhere. It is a beautiful thing for myself, but even moreso when a reader has the same feelings.

A Harvard professor who has written 9 books and spent 40 years studying how language works inside the human brain just gave the most important writing masterclass I've ever seen. Here's what he said that broke my entire understanding of writing. Steven Pinker, the professor, opened with a single question: why is so much writing terrible? Not just academic writing, but corporate writing, government writing, and even most blog posts. His answer had nothing to do with effort or intelligence. He called it the Curse of Knowledge. The moment you understand something deeply, you lose the ability to remember what it felt like not to know it. You stop seeing your own blind spots because the blind spots feel like common ground. He watched a brilliant molecular biologist destroy a room of 400 people at a TED event. The man launched straight into jargon without ever explaining the problem he was solving or why anyone should care. The biologist had no idea it was happening. That's the curse. Then he said something I haven't stopped thinking about. Bad writing is not a character flaw. It's a failure of empathy. You cannot get inside your reader's head by trying harder. You have to actually find a real human being and watch them read your words in real time. He showed his drafts to his mother. Not because she was unsophisticated, but because she wasn't a cognitive psychologist. She was smart, well-read, and completely outside his world. When she lost the thread, he knew something was wrong. The second thing he said changed how I think about every sentence I write. Language is a delivery system, not the destination. What your reader actually understands is not the words. It is the image, the sensation, the concrete thing those words are supposed to summon. If your reader cannot picture it, they have not understood it. He asked: what is a paradigm? What does a framework look like? What color is a concept? Nobody could answer. Because abstractions produce nothing in the mind's eye. The writers from two centuries ago who still feel alive today were forced to think visually because they had no abstractions to hide behind. They had to say the spirit of the hawk tore into our flesh instead of aggression. The image did the work that the jargon could not. The third thing he said was the one most people ignore completely. Brevity is not about word count. It is about removing every word that makes the reader work harder without rewarding them for it. He quoted a line he had memorized for 40 years: omit needless words. Three words. An instruction that is also an example of itself. He said the best thing that ever happened to his writing was editors who gave him an 800-word limit and wouldn't budge. The constraint always improved the piece. Always. The curse of knowledge is real. The fix is simple and most people never do it. Find one person outside your world. Show them what you wrote. Watch their face, not the page.

It's important to recognize the accomplishment so that you can carry that with you, widening your stride and encouraging you to ferry onward! 🙏

I think it's as simple as it's written: if you don't want your readers to focus on these things, then you don't mention it. If you do want your readers to be grounded in certain statistical data, then you share it. But! Don't be mad when you do get out-mathed. It'll happen 😎

@Chronodendron amazon.com/Nascence-Book-…

@Chronodendron Protagonist that wants nothing to do with the world and the "duties" expected of citizens. Yet the world discovers he has *all* the potential of a legendary hero, so they drag him into the center stage of the world!

Convince me read your book. That's it. Do your best. If you do, I'll read it next month and leave a review.