My Novel "Wither We Tend" Explained

 For a long time the idea of writing and movie making would have been impossible for me to even dream, because of my ADHD. Now  that I am receiving proper instruction on how to live with ADHD however , I am working on my first novel, "Whither We Tend".

It is a story about the two sides of our same American conflict that we live with today.  

Simon Gates is a mild mannered insurance agent from Stratford, CT who is thrust into the Post-Trump  America where civil war and the Resistance bubbles feverishly below the surface. When he has a car accident with a cop killer, he decides to take advantage  of a new Army program designed to defend America's homeland with a volunteer force of small business owners.

The Hawk, an ex-military contractor with a gift for writing, just happens to write a plan that will address the state of an Un-American America and posts it to the dark web. Its a solution to end the game where the rich get richer and the poor hate everyone,  and he begins by waking the monster that was the Militia movement and becomes The Resistance. That plan quickly morphs into a movement to restore our Nation to its former glory by tamping out the one thing that holds back the unification and militarization of the underserved in America, racism.

As the two men take mirroring paths to a waiting conflict, they accompany the reader to learn that "us and them" are not so different after all. It is not the enemy we know that causes us the most harm, but the friend we think we know that is most dangerous to us as Americans.

I should have it done by Thanksgiving and hope to have it for sale before too many months into 2021. Just as Lincoln wrote in his House Divided speech on June 16, 1858,  "If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it."

By the state of the Union, I do hope we will find out if this novel is just an exercise in fiction or  if it is in fact a premonition of the way we tend as a society.

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead, now what?

 While the Universe of Biden fans erupts with renditions of 'Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" this morning and Trump supporters make their weekly run to restock their ammo at Walmart, a smell of irony rises from the cesspool. 

I read an article last night that  prompted a bit of peacemaking between my wife and I before bed. I think it came from the Washington Post, although I am having a hell of time finding it this morning, given how much it irritated my wife last night.  

The just of it was, Trump is not done by a long shot even with a Biden win in Pennsylvania this morning. Just because the AP calls the election for Biden, doesn't mean that Trump has to concede and odds are he won't. 

The article last night said that if Trump hangs in their and doesn't concede, the republicans will demand that all the contested states are thrown out of the total electoral count because "electoral irregularities". 

Then, because the electoral college is nullified, the election wall fall to the state legislatures to adopt a panel of electors and with that they have the votes to beat the Democrats and put Trump in office for four more years. 

That's a boiled down version and my wife argued that Trumps concession has no legal binding and that the piece was  just a liberal version of Fox news scare tactics. And she's right it is. 

But that doesn't mean that the methodology they used for analyzing the various ways the Constitutional process of electing a president can screw us is wrong. In fact, I spent a whole college career learning about ways the electoral process at the presidential level can screw the average American, and if I read that article, you know one of Rudy Giuliani staff has as well. 

I would guess that just about now they are briefing the Trump War room on a plan to subvert the process and get around the Electoral College using one of about a thousand legal ways there are to set aside the popular vote. It is a well understood Constitutional principle that the process of electing a president  favors a state-based election over a population-based election and there is no way in hell, that the Trump team of lawyers is not pulling out all stops to end run what the Media is calling a done deal this morning. 

The only question is which way will they direct their fire first and how will they come at Biden and the American legal system. 

But it gets even worse. With McConnell and Graham heading back to the Senate and a net loss of seats for the Dems in the House, Biden's four years ahead are going to make the Obama years look like a cake walk through the land of Cooperation. 

Even if Biden does get his chance to wear his prettiest dress to the great big White House dance, the Republican's in Congress are gonna make sure he gets a big ol' bucket pig blood dumped on his noggin every chance they get. We are in for yet another four years of a dysfunctional government that is going to make the last 20 look like a pot party circa 1969 Haight-Ashbury. 

That's only if, we manage to curb the Bush light consumption and Walmart Sports Department spending sprees of the alt right. The only saving grace there is, is that Rush Limbaugh is running out of steam and likely wont make it another four years to spew his hate-filled rhetoric that gets the alt right so hot and bothered. 

I'm not saying I am bearish on the prospects of Mr. and Mrs. America in the next four years, but what  I am saying is that my vison of what lies ahead is making for one great novel.  Which by the way, since they gave Biden the nod, you wont get to see it again until it gets published. So sorry but thanks for playing along at home. 

Im writing a Novel about Civil War II

Here's a short little update on why I haven't been posting to my pages lately. 

#1 The political world is a mess

#2 I'm writing my first novel

A SEO analyst told me the other my website is crap. It's confused, has too many topics and above all things, I should stay away from politics. That's when I told him I was writing a novel about politics and the conversation ended. 

My website is crap. I get it. There is too much stuff and you need an update to your Garmin  to navigate it. But that is the way my mind works and my website is kind of like snapshot of my mind. I hope you like it, but its not for you really is it? 

That's the way my brain works and that my friends is why I have a website. It is the outlet I have to get this stuff out of my mind, whether it makes sense to Google or not

So why then, you may ask, have I not posted blog or anything much recently? Well that's because I am writing a Novel about the events that we are experiencing today. 

The election is on everyone's mind right now and we all are worried that this is the start of Civil War II. 

Well I am writing novel about that very thing- what if it does come to Civil War II. 

What would that look like? How would it get started? How would it end? 

I am wandering into the world of imaginary politics to presuppose that Trump has lost and Biden doesn't work out. A new name is thrust on the political stage in the form a progressive liberal dictator named Crawford and the United States of America as we know it ends. 

There are two sides to this story. One protagonist in the form of  a doughy-eyed insurance salesman named Simon Gates who lives in my home town of Stratford, CT and the other a hard-as-nails former military contractor named Augustus Spiros. 

They both are fighting for an America that they want to see, but in the end, the America that emerges for both of them is everything and nothing that they envision.  

As I think that is what is going to happen when this election is done. Neither side will be happy with the outcome and neither side will be disappointed either. What is coming next will shock us all I am sure, whether it is Trump or Biden who wins. The only thing that is sure is we all will lose. 

I have taken the liberty to post an excerpt from my Novel on my Patreon account, but today I will do one better. I will post the entire first chapter.  It will only be available until they announce the winner of the election and your gonna have to pay $5 to read it. You may hate it, but it is what might happen if we don't all step back and take breather before we do whatever it is we are going to do next. 

View it here until they announce and then it self destructs, https://www.patreon.com/thatsailingguy