How to Protect your manuscript.
From experience I have had several near disasters, one of which was that my computer turned off for some reason that is not yet known. The second disaster was that a well-trained computer secretary lost a whole story of more than 400 pages. Despite brining in experts, this document had fled my computer never to be seen again.
However, to this point, I still have an accurate copy of all I have written. If you want to know how I did this read on.
Things to do to preserve your manuscript:
1. I am mad about these small "flash" discs. To me, they represent the safety net used by circus high rope walkers. After working on every manuscript, I and my secretary go through a routine to put the newly worked manuscript on a flash disc.
What is more I keep only the last manuscript worked. Being legally blind, this action prevents me from working on the wrong document.
Another help for preserving your work is to see that an important copy is kept in another computer in your home such as that of your wife, or etc. Now, when you have finished your manuscript, put a finished copy on a flash disc and put it in your bank vault. Be sure the envelope it is in is well labeled for quick identification. To be really fussy, print out the manuscript, and put this hard copy in your bank vault.. If you don't have a bank vault, put a flash disc in a well-marked envelope and give it to someone you trust. Be sure it has the copyright declaration on your manuscript.
To be sure I am working on the last corrected manuscript, I, when completing the work the previous day (or time) put the date at the very top of the manuscript such as 3-31-14. Believe me, it doesn't matter whether you are working on one or ten manuscript, you must follow some pattern such as that above to preserve your hard-to-duplicate literary work.
A tip on correcting a line of your manuscript:
Again, folks, I am legally blind so I often need to do special things to correct lines. Below is an example of "my way."
"The little yellow dog jumped over the sleeping fox."
Lets say that I want to change the word 'jumped' to ''hurdled'. In order to not mess up the line, I make a line break before the word "jump" and then put in the word "hurdled.," then , removing "jumped from the last part of the line, I hit the break key and put the line back together, now the line containing the word "hurdled" instead of "jumped." This explanation only complicated because I haven't thought of a more simple way to put it. All that I can say is "this works wonders for me."
Monday, March 31, 2014
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
The heart is a Hounddog baying for love
3-25-14
Coming Soon
The title of this less than 100 page book is: "The Heart is a Hound Dog Baying for Love"
The subtitle is: Gwen Lee Hunt loves war hero, Clyde Giorgioni.
This work is an epilogue to "The Giorgioni Legend." and is less than 100 pages in length.
For those who have not read the main book, Clyde is the son of Mike and Anita Giorgioni who has just returned from the WW2 famous Battle of the Midway Atoll. where he spent the night in the bowl of his parachute after a botched landing on the carrier Enterprise.
(I plan to eventually put "The Giorgioni Legend" on Amazon for downloading on your Kindle,
Clyde, after rescue by the submarine Cuttlefish, is awarded the Air Medal and Purple Heart and returns for a temporary leave to Dallas, TX where he is put in charge of the US Marine recruiting service in downtown Dallas. After a noontime sermon by a newly frocked priest of the downtown Catholic Church, Clyde and Gwen meet. It is at this point that a memorable and tender love affair begins between Clyde and Gwen, she almost exacting the promise that she, raised as an only child, would tolerate a family of at least five children.
Their marriage is a glamorous and spectacular affair as Gwen's father is CEO of the St. Louis Aeronautical Company.
Wayne Sands, MD waynesands12@aol.com
Alas and alas and alas. After three children Clyde is recalled to duty to again be a fighter pilot in the most savage and deadly battle of all time....the Battle of Okinawa. The author has studied many battles but that of Okinawa . As I always mix in history with the story, the reader will fine that learning history is quite painless if a part of a story.
I would like very much to tell you of the bang-up ending as well as some very tender family happening but that would deny you the fun a privilege of discovering happenings in this book which have passed me and others by.
Oh yes, my secretary says that Gwen had Clyde in her sights when she was only a young child. Of course that is something to consider as you read this tale of adventure, romance and action.
Coming Soon
The title of this less than 100 page book is: "The Heart is a Hound Dog Baying for Love"
The subtitle is: Gwen Lee Hunt loves war hero, Clyde Giorgioni.
This work is an epilogue to "The Giorgioni Legend." and is less than 100 pages in length.
For those who have not read the main book, Clyde is the son of Mike and Anita Giorgioni who has just returned from the WW2 famous Battle of the Midway Atoll. where he spent the night in the bowl of his parachute after a botched landing on the carrier Enterprise.
(I plan to eventually put "The Giorgioni Legend" on Amazon for downloading on your Kindle,
Clyde, after rescue by the submarine Cuttlefish, is awarded the Air Medal and Purple Heart and returns for a temporary leave to Dallas, TX where he is put in charge of the US Marine recruiting service in downtown Dallas. After a noontime sermon by a newly frocked priest of the downtown Catholic Church, Clyde and Gwen meet. It is at this point that a memorable and tender love affair begins between Clyde and Gwen, she almost exacting the promise that she, raised as an only child, would tolerate a family of at least five children.
Their marriage is a glamorous and spectacular affair as Gwen's father is CEO of the St. Louis Aeronautical Company.
Wayne Sands, MD waynesands12@aol.com
Alas and alas and alas. After three children Clyde is recalled to duty to again be a fighter pilot in the most savage and deadly battle of all time....the Battle of Okinawa. The author has studied many battles but that of Okinawa . As I always mix in history with the story, the reader will fine that learning history is quite painless if a part of a story.
I would like very much to tell you of the bang-up ending as well as some very tender family happening but that would deny you the fun a privilege of discovering happenings in this book which have passed me and others by.
Oh yes, my secretary says that Gwen had Clyde in her sights when she was only a young child. Of course that is something to consider as you read this tale of adventure, romance and action.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
The Giorgioni Legends
Just look what is coming your way!!!
Very soon my novel "The Giorgioni Legend" will be available to you/ The "Legend"" is a large novel with large scenes and dynamic characters. The genre is that of adventure, action, romance and history. Now, now folks,, this is certainly not a history book but no story covering 90 years in Texas can be created without involving the milieu of history about the action. For example: Did you know that trains pushed the cattle drives to Dodge into the past? Did you know that the 1901 oil gusher in Beaumont, Texas double the supply of oil for the USA. as the output of the Standard Oil Company was watched barrel for barrel by oil and natural gas discovered in Texas in 1901. Nope, folks you cannot ignore these seminal moments of history.
The story begins in 1852 when Paulus Octavious Giorgiona and his wife Corinthia Dorina cross the Atlantic Ocean and then go west on the Erie Canal and then to Chicago, IL via the he steamship Loretta . From there it's west across Illinois to the Great Mississippi River often called the "Big Muddy." The two Sicilians end up at New Orleans, Louisiana where they take a ship east across the Gulf of Mexico then to the Bay of Galveston after which they go 250 miles northeast to San Antonio where Paulus becomes famous in this Catholic diocese for his art in wood working.
The second generation is that of the twins Carlos and Carla. While Carlos moves to Houston to become rich in the furniture business, his twin sister Carla disappears into the island of Galveston her life history there quite nebulous.
Siegfried Giorgioni, becomes rich by building A General Store and Oil Drilling Annex in the exact geographical center of Texas. While Zephyr is the name on the map, the author has taken the liberty of naming it "Tempest." Siegfried buys a 3000 acre ranch under which there is a lake of oil plus other money-making areas such as cotton and a Texas size area of pecans.
Michael Fernando Giorgioni is of the fourth generation and a superb writer who wins the highly regard Pulitzer Prize for a book about his family. Also, Mike serves in the Great War in France. The reader will slather at the mind as Mike vacations in Paris after trench war against the Germans. Nowhere, I promise you, will you find such tender and entrancing scenes as that found in the final battle of the Great War at Belleau Woods, France.
After Mike returns home in honor, he and Anita Marie Austin make a tour of the State of Texas to gain the right for women to vote.
After many years of of delay, Mike now 33 years of age joins the Creative Writing class at Southern Methodist University. This chapter has all the pain and delight which writers endure as writer workshop attendees. Meanwhile, in the second year of their marriage, is born Clyde Amos Giorgioni ,and outstanding athlete and with a mind of Mensa capabilities. As Clyde is born in May of 1922, he is cannon fodder for WW11 when he serves as a carrier pilot on the Yorktown in the memorable and remarkable sea battles of the Coral Sea and that of the Midway Atoll.
What? No villain? Oh yes, yes, yes. Erik Beezlethor is the supreme villain. Not only is he an uneducated genius but a bigot with a grand purpose. He is chief of the NRG (Night Riders of God) .
Erik aka "Erik the Red" is an unusual and remarkable villain in that he exploits the Constitutions First Amendment of free speech by conducting bigotry marches against Jews, Negroes, Chines, Japanese , women and Catholics, his signs maligning all but Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPS). Erik is so interesting a villain that one must read the book to understand the clear and present danger of a villain who employs the First Amendment so that he hangs the citizens of Texas with their own noose.
The ending chapters are most extraordinary to such a degree that I have read then time and time again just for the fun of it.
If you are a Texan, you will thievery or mayhem for the singular opportunity of reading this book. Even if you hate Texas (which very few do) they will find that th story is so delightful that they will forthwith make plans to visit Texas.
Although I would enjoy making a pot full of money from the sale of this magnificent novel, I am quite satisfied that I have been allowed four years of life to do the research and writing of this book. Of course, the hours of research have been monumental through which I have become an expert on many subjects about which I knew very little. This in itself is payment enough for the author.
Look for my other books on Amazon. They too are worth your time. Also, I a have almost complete an epilogue off less than 80 pages of "The Giorgioni Legend." I shall leave a blog when this is finished.
W. Wayne Sands, MD and, a retired Radiologist and Psychiatrist.
Very soon my novel "The Giorgioni Legend" will be available to you/ The "Legend"" is a large novel with large scenes and dynamic characters. The genre is that of adventure, action, romance and history. Now, now folks,, this is certainly not a history book but no story covering 90 years in Texas can be created without involving the milieu of history about the action. For example: Did you know that trains pushed the cattle drives to Dodge into the past? Did you know that the 1901 oil gusher in Beaumont, Texas double the supply of oil for the USA. as the output of the Standard Oil Company was watched barrel for barrel by oil and natural gas discovered in Texas in 1901. Nope, folks you cannot ignore these seminal moments of history.
The story begins in 1852 when Paulus Octavious Giorgiona and his wife Corinthia Dorina cross the Atlantic Ocean and then go west on the Erie Canal and then to Chicago, IL via the he steamship Loretta . From there it's west across Illinois to the Great Mississippi River often called the "Big Muddy." The two Sicilians end up at New Orleans, Louisiana where they take a ship east across the Gulf of Mexico then to the Bay of Galveston after which they go 250 miles northeast to San Antonio where Paulus becomes famous in this Catholic diocese for his art in wood working.
The second generation is that of the twins Carlos and Carla. While Carlos moves to Houston to become rich in the furniture business, his twin sister Carla disappears into the island of Galveston her life history there quite nebulous.
Siegfried Giorgioni, becomes rich by building A General Store and Oil Drilling Annex in the exact geographical center of Texas. While Zephyr is the name on the map, the author has taken the liberty of naming it "Tempest." Siegfried buys a 3000 acre ranch under which there is a lake of oil plus other money-making areas such as cotton and a Texas size area of pecans.
Michael Fernando Giorgioni is of the fourth generation and a superb writer who wins the highly regard Pulitzer Prize for a book about his family. Also, Mike serves in the Great War in France. The reader will slather at the mind as Mike vacations in Paris after trench war against the Germans. Nowhere, I promise you, will you find such tender and entrancing scenes as that found in the final battle of the Great War at Belleau Woods, France.
After Mike returns home in honor, he and Anita Marie Austin make a tour of the State of Texas to gain the right for women to vote.
After many years of of delay, Mike now 33 years of age joins the Creative Writing class at Southern Methodist University. This chapter has all the pain and delight which writers endure as writer workshop attendees. Meanwhile, in the second year of their marriage, is born Clyde Amos Giorgioni ,and outstanding athlete and with a mind of Mensa capabilities. As Clyde is born in May of 1922, he is cannon fodder for WW11 when he serves as a carrier pilot on the Yorktown in the memorable and remarkable sea battles of the Coral Sea and that of the Midway Atoll.
What? No villain? Oh yes, yes, yes. Erik Beezlethor is the supreme villain. Not only is he an uneducated genius but a bigot with a grand purpose. He is chief of the NRG (Night Riders of God) .
Erik aka "Erik the Red" is an unusual and remarkable villain in that he exploits the Constitutions First Amendment of free speech by conducting bigotry marches against Jews, Negroes, Chines, Japanese , women and Catholics, his signs maligning all but Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPS). Erik is so interesting a villain that one must read the book to understand the clear and present danger of a villain who employs the First Amendment so that he hangs the citizens of Texas with their own noose.
The ending chapters are most extraordinary to such a degree that I have read then time and time again just for the fun of it.
If you are a Texan, you will thievery or mayhem for the singular opportunity of reading this book. Even if you hate Texas (which very few do) they will find that th story is so delightful that they will forthwith make plans to visit Texas.
Although I would enjoy making a pot full of money from the sale of this magnificent novel, I am quite satisfied that I have been allowed four years of life to do the research and writing of this book. Of course, the hours of research have been monumental through which I have become an expert on many subjects about which I knew very little. This in itself is payment enough for the author.
Look for my other books on Amazon. They too are worth your time. Also, I a have almost complete an epilogue off less than 80 pages of "The Giorgioni Legend." I shall leave a blog when this is finished.
W. Wayne Sands, MD and, a retired Radiologist and Psychiatrist.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
"TC Thornfrye" on Amazon
On Amazon you will find my fascinating novel "TC Thornfyre" which you can now load down into your Kindle. I am obtaining a new and striking jacket for this novel. So, my dear friends, you can at this moment read a fascinating story of romance, action and science. Quite some time ago, Propaganda Films declared this book to be one of creative writing and a marvelous villain. Personally I am enchanted with the love affair between TC and Myko Nimura Below are some tidbits of this enchanting and gripping story.
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Thousands were already marked for death before they arrived in this
valley tombWith the womb-wide lake bound to the umbilical cord
Of a skinny road Whose
fragile tracery led north to death Away from the southern safety at Hagaru‑ri,ne
hundred long miles behind them.
They came isearch of The Holy Grail That, the Joint Chiefs of Staff
declared, Lay at the Yalu River Near
the soft underbelly of China Where
the Manchurian wind Swept down like a sharpened sickle, Reaping them into grotesque frozen
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The purpose of this Blog is to
announce that Amazon will now display
the colorful jacket of my new novel:
“TC
Thornfyre”
“A love
so flawed, the prize so desirable
First of
all, this is NOT a novel of war. The escape of Dr. TC from the Chosin Reservoir is to introduce characters
chacters
that will reappear further in the story.
So, and gentlemen, this is a tale
of the genre of adventure, romance,
action and science.
It is
most likely that many do not recall the
heroism of the Marines in the North Korean War.
When Chief of the Army, General Douglas MacArthur did not take the
warning from China Yalu
River which marked the southern
boundary of China
Here is a
list of the interesting characters in this novel:
1.
Margaret, Dr. TC’s secretary knows where all the bones are buried in the Philadelphia Hospital
2. Dr.
Groggins is TC’s friend and a Psychiatrist as well.
3. Barabas is a Canadian volunteer who has long
red hair and is an expert with the Browning Automatic rifle.
3. The
villain, Kushi Seppku, is a Japanese sniper working for the North Koreans. Barabas captures Seppku and, through a angry
incident is woundedby Dr. TC. Propaganda Films,
reviewing this book, said, that the writing was “creative” and the villain
“marvelous.”
4. Unfortunately, TC’s Wife,
Myko Nimura, is a niece to Kushi Seppku, the latter a villain.
5. The Holly Grail is not only for industrial use but hoped by TC and
Myko to win the Nobel Prize and go to Stockholm Sweden
6. There are three interesting physicians: Drs Thomas and Quayle and an
African American who sets TC on the track to become a doctor.
The chase scene at the finish is equal to that of the famous movie,
“The French Connection.” Helicopters hover about, police cars race to the
Christmas Store in southern Stockholm
My colleagues and my creative writing teachers have state that: “The
most epilogue is the most [petoc and
beautiful prose they have ever encountered.
As an author, I had all of my novels with a poem and this squib below
is in my choice for this month. If also
may be found in my book “TC Thornfyre” which you can soon download in your
Kindle.
It is my habit as an author to place a significant poem or short
paragraph of lyrical prose immediately before the story begins. Below is the
paragraph of lyrical prose that precedes the story of “TC Thornfyre.” My
colleagues have said that this prose-poem is both beautiful and chilling.
The Epic Of THE RETREAT FROM CHOIN RESERVOIR
By Wayne
Icy sculptures of death they Caught in the full stride of escape mouths
sucking the North Korean cold
Into the farthest venules of
their bodies.
“Ladies, please remember that
“Dr. TC Thornfyre” Is NOt, NOT, NOT a novel of the Koren war but rather love
story of two talented persons.”
“
“Men, let my assure you that you will find this novel will arouse in
you some personal rembrances of a flawed
love as well as the harsh realities encountered in researching a multi-energy
machine which many think is both ludicrouse and a waste of the college’s time
and money. (We’ve all been there, in one way or another, haven’t we?”
So, readers, as you are on the web now, go to Amazon and download “Dr.
TC. Thornfyre” by Zipp Morgan for a great read which you will always remember.”
The Epic of the
Chosen Reservoir Battle
By Wayne
Thousands were already marked for death before they arrived in this
valley tomb
With the womb-wide lake bound to the umbilical cord
Of a skinny road Whose
fragile tracery led north to death Away from the southern safety at Hagaru‑ri,ne
hundred long miles behind them.
They came isearch of The Holy Grail That, the Joint Chiefs of Staff
declared, Lay at the Yalu River Near
the soft underbelly of China Where
the Manchurian wind
Swept down like a sharpened sickle,
Reaping them into grotesque frozen sculptures
Of death, they Caught in the full stride of escapeWith mouths sucking
the North Korean cold
Into
the farthest venules of their bodies.
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