PT Brainum: Blog

I wrote a book a couple years ago that never got finished. I had a burst of energy last week and got it done. It'll start posting today not sure of the schedule yet, but first post is intro plus 5 chapters. 66 chatters total including epilogue. I'll be getting it in the book store just as soon as my editing work finishes.

In 1991 a guy named Jimi Heselden started a company called Hesco that made a barrier commonly known as Hesco barriers. A self standing wire framed sack that you fill with gravel dirt or sand to create an instant wall or barrier. Got a lot of use in Afghanistan and Iraq during the wars, and grew in popularity also for civilian use such as emergency flood water barriers.
In 2009 he purchased Segway from the inventor because he thought they had great untapped market potential, and he loved the product.
Ironically, in 2010, while riding a Segway and walking his dog, he went backwards over a cliff to his death. It's a tragic shame he didn't have some sort of barrier to keep him from falling off the cliff and into a river.

PS open hand, last written chapter is number 12 and posts on Thursday.

i just posted the first chapter of sam's adventure book 2. it's not complete, but as promised to many of my readers who wrote me, it's a new year so I'll post what I have.
once the first chapter is up, I'll add the rest of the book to post automatically. probably daily until the spot where i stopped writing.
happy new year
PT

What did you get your wife for your anniversary this year?

Suppositories!

Really?

Yeah! She said wanted a big surprise, and even admitted she never would have guessed. But even better was my present.

What did you get?

She had to pull the stick out to try them, and I hid it when she wasn't looking!

Changes in meds and my mind is clear and creative juices are dripping. Poor Sam, 13 chapters into book 2 and I'm stuck, I know where I'm going. But getting there and making it right have become an issue. It's going to take time and inspiration, but there will eventually be a book 2, I hope.
Meanwhile Koby Roberts has become my new nemesis, 12 chapters in 3 days. The dude wants out of my head. It's also a new style for me, a system novel, if you're familiar with those. I read too many machine translated stupidly long Chinese novels while down and sick over the last year. The new novel is called American With A Chinese System (awacs). Bad Chinese English translating is part of the charm of this one. Even worse. I'm actually learning some Chinese characters. I hope this book doesn't do that to anyone else, Chinese is just wrong on so many levels in my brain. As always, I'll only post if/when completed.
Let me add that system novels are really hard to write, you have to keep track of every point, level, skill, metric, calculation, Etc. I've already had to retcon once to fix a mistake I made because it would change the story too much to rewrite it. It worked great, so making lemonade. So happy to be writing again! 破釜沉舟