Winter Rain

Yesterday the Florida skies looked like this, photo doesn't do it justice. I used to love days like this, I thanked God for these days. They were cool, pleasant. I didn't have to wear sunglasses, but those were the days before TN.

It rained nearly the whole day, gratuitous amounts of liquid sunshine; aggravating my Trigeminal nerve. I can handle a Florida palmetto pounder, winter rain just drives me nuts. The temperature never rose above 55 degrees, I don't care where you live, that's cold for that mutinous nerve.

Today the sun is out and the nerve is still simmering my scalp. It's not too bad, but it's where I can't write a start I want to start. The pain's better than yesterday, keep the faith.

September 23, 2017: The Revelation 12 Sign

Revelation 12:1-6

Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars. 2 Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.

3 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great, fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his heads. 4 His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born.

5 She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to God and His throne. 6 Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

The latest Rapture date states that this sign will occur on September 23, 2017. The woman, the constellation Virgo, will rise in the eastern horizon with the sun. The unseen moon will be under her feet as she soars with the sun.

The constellation Leo will be above her head. The Lion consists of nine stars; however, Mercury, Venus, and Mars are also sitting atop of the woman, thus twelve stars in her head.

Jupiter will have been in Virgo’s womb for nine months, she gives birth to Jupiter as she continues to trek across the sky. The Constellation Draco, known as the Red Dragon, will be moving in after she gives ‘birth’.

1 Corinthians 15:52

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye (Twilight), at the last trumpet (Rosh Hashanah). For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

So now you know why conspiracy theorists and Watcher Christians are saying that the Rapture will occur on September 23, 2017 at the last trump. Is it plausible? Yes, it falls in the Rapture window of Rosh Hashanah for it is the next Leviticus 23 feast that needs to be fulfilled and the next feasts: Day of Atonement and Tabernacles occur in October 2024. It is plausible.

However, this nukes the chronological order of Revelation as well as eschatology. All my life I have been led to believe that the Tribulation is 7 years long, if this version is correct, what happens to the other 3 and a half years? Or does this make the Rapture Mid Tribulation, if so? When did it start?!?!? It’s supposed to start with a Peace Treaty and then all Hell breaks loose.

I hope they’re right; I’ll be eternally pain free on September 23, 2017. If not, they won’t be able to show their faces for a long time.

NaNoWriMo 2016

A Wolf in Gotham second rewrite has been finished since late November. 55,000+ words. It's better than the original, but I still don't like it; just something about it is eating me. I enjoyed writing the new chapters, but the rewriting of older ones was a chore. It packs a powerful Trigeminal Neuralgia Awareness plot, but like I said, something is gnawing at me. I'm going to put it away for a while and rest my head.

NaNoWrimo Update!

Chapter 1 is done! 3,579 words!

It's 2006, the United States Navy has retired the F-14 Tomcat. Lieutenant Ryan T. Wolf is almost finished transitioning from the Tomcat to the classified hypersonic F/A-39 Crusader when the family curse strikes him. Wolf recovers and is transferred to Gotham Naval Air Station, New Jersey. He quickly finds a gall bladder attack and heart ache are nothing compared to a new pain that has arisen on the left side of his face.

A Wolf in Gotham

The insanity that is NaNoWriMo is nearly upon us. In a just over a week I will start for the third time. I’m nervously excited about it. I won last year, but the previous year I started on November 14; I lost. However, I consider it a win since I wrote 25,000 words. At that time it was the most I’ve written in years.

I’m a plotter and a panster. I can knock out a short story with little effort, but not for a larger type story, the plotter comes out. I missed a few days last year with TN pain caused by cold fronts; need the plot so I can feverishly type away with my nimble fingers while I can.

I originally started writing A Wolf in Gotham project back in 2007 and 2008. It never really flowed until I changed one of the female characters. I thought it was a decent first attempt, but rereading it… I wondered why it didn’t stand out from my other stories. The more I read it the more, I hated it. But it was a good launching point for my main character, Lieutenant Ryan Wolf, F-14 pilot upgraded to a classified hypersonic stealth fighter.

I gutted most of the story and throwing in my Trigeminal Neuralgia. I wrote lots of short stories with Ryan battling headaches, undiagnosed TN pain. My plan is to raise awareness of this rare excruciating condition. I plan on two follow up books, Teal Beast Rising (April 2017) and The Teal Warrior (NaNoWriMo 2017)

Teal Beast Rising will feature my short stories of 2009-2012, before I was officially diagnosed with TN. It will show how long it takes for most of us TN suffers to get diagnosed with our condition. It will end with my short story ‘Going Down’

Teal Warrior will be based on 2012-present day short stories and my experiences with prescription pain killers and battling TN with natural supplements, eating anti-inflammatory foods, and chiropractic care.

Maybe one day I’ll turn the background for A Wolf in Gotham teal. Write on!

Occipital Neuralgia

Over the last six weeks I have awoken to pain in my scalp. It's not a bad pain, more annoying, but it's progressively getting worse over this period of time. I have started neck therapy again, but it'll take a few more visits before it'll start helping with the pain.

It's making me think if I do have Occipital Neuralgia on top of Trigeminal Neuralgia. I can eat my usual foods and it helps with the pain, but not like it normally does. Pain stays in my scalp until early in the afternoon, it becomes a headache where I can take something for it. Occasionally I get the TN stabbing pains in the eye and ear as well as the ache in my jaw, cheek, and neck.

It's killed my writing muse, but I'm determined to write 'A Wolf in Gotham' for NaNoWriMo and complete a novel about a person suffering from Trigeminal Neuralgia.

2016 NaNoWriMo Project

It's 2006, the United States Navy has retired the F-14 Tomcat. Lieutenant Ryan T. Wolf is almost finished transitioning from the Tomcat to the classified hypersonic F/A-39 Crusader when the family curse strikes him. Wolf recovers and is transferred to Gotham Naval Air Station, New Jersey. He quickly finds a gall bladder attack is nothing compared to a new pain that has arisen on the left side of his face.

Characters: Lieutenant Ryan Wolf, Major Carol Angers (USAF), Colonel America, Wonder Star (Agent King), Power Star, Commander Quinn (USN), Admiral Doolittle (USN), Ensign Pike (USN), Red Hawk, Lady Cobalt, Tara and Red Wolf.