by Tom Evans | Aug 19, 2020 | Timing
After two abortive road trips, and the vehicle spending over two weeks back at the dealer, our motorhome journey has been eventful and had more downs than ups. We’ve found though that the local Fiat garage can fix it and give us support, so fingers crossed a resolution is in sight.
While it may feel we have gone nowhere, you will not be surprised that much has happened. The circle we have been around is more like a spiral as the 12 short stories that form the prequel/sequel to Soulwaves are now in first draft and I had this feedback from my editor/proofreader …
As you saw from my review, I loved your previous book, Soulwaves. It covered so many ideas and disciplines and, as an aside, I also loved the tactile velvety feel of the book.
I had an initial read of Insertions. It’s very exciting. Compared to Soulwaves you’ve taken this book to another level. It’s complex and niche.
… this kinda gives me goosebumps and I feel my new creative direction is set. I am loving writing fiction and composing music to go with it. That said, as you can see below, the old forms of outputs are still being cranked out. I guess the Universe has other plans.
Last Moonth’s Output
Again, I can’t believe all of this has been written, recorded, produced and published …
What’s Happening Next Moonth?
Well we hope the motorhome behaves itself now and I wonder if it was just the Universe getting me to focus on other stuff.
So over the next moonth or so, Soulwaves : Insertions will be edited and refined and the cover design initiated …
… and there is at least one amazing podcast lined up with somewhat of a hero of mind and one of the greatest minds on the planet!
by Tom Evans | Jul 19, 2020 | Expanding
So we are now the owners of a motorhome, kind of – she was called Bunty von Burstner. Unfortunately our first planned two week trip was cut short and ‘she’ is back with the dealer as ‘she’ kept going ‘fawlty’ – if she comes back next week, we are renaming her Basil as a result!
This blog was to go live while we were on our first jaunt – two or so weeks around the Cotswolds and Welsh Borders. It’s a reminder that, in life, there is no route, no plan, no need to get anywhere at anytime. Our ‘road’ has taken us back at base, awaiting news Basil has been repaired. Words have been had with the dealer and we are paying attention some other issues at home that required some TLC.
On a more positive note, seven of twelve short stories of the Soulwaves Prequel/Sequel have now been written that have gone many places already in space and time. This leaves the door open to make the next five go to even wilder places still.
Musically too, the synths will be playing very much a background role and the guitar coming to the fore – watch and listen to this space to see what emerges in the next blog.
Last Moonth’s Output
So this last moonth is one where I was aiming to slow down, what with the new motorhome, a few day trips out and all that !
But not only did I write those seven short stories for the Soulwaves prequel/sequel but I also created two more ambient tracks, one guided meditation, an off-the-wall podcast and published two audiobooks from the archive. My audiobooks now have their own playlist.
Incidentally, the ambient tracks now number 13 and the whole playlist is over 3 hours long and where I aimed to be at the end of 2020. Some good has come from the lock down!
Slowing down is obviously the new speeding up.
What’s Happening Next Moonth?
So assuming we get back on the road with Basil, I plan to use my trusty iPad for writing the next 2 or 3 stories and my guitar for recording melodies to go on top of new ambient layers – hopefully all inspired by the change of location leading to a change of perspective.
One of these new perspectives is to use classical tracks slowed down as the ambient layer provided by a great site called Chordify which allows the MIDI file to be downloaded – a new creative boost …
… also wondering how weird and way out I can make the remaining short stories !
by Tom Evans | Dec 21, 2019 | Expanding
Just over 10 years ago, I published my first non-fiction book called Blocks. To accompany it, I created a set of meditations. Little did I know then that would lead me down a completely different path.
This month, my meditations reached the 2.3 million listens point on Insight Timer. By gifting them away free, so much abundance has come my way to create a new level of freedom which has taken me to a place beyond my wildest dreams.
This energetic flow is a gift that keeps on giving.
Since creating those first few meditations, I have built up an amazing repository of materials. A small fraction of these materials have found their way on to Insight Timer but, up to now, much of it has been under lock and key behind a username and password which is unlocked by the exchange of money.
From today this all changes. My archive is now freely available to all.
Access my free resources here …
In Other News
One of my most popular meditations on Insight Timer, called Just for Today, has had just short of 600k listens. A meditator asked the other day for an extended version which you can now find here – called Just a Little Longer. This is also the first ever track where I have composed and created the ambient background music … more of this in 2020.
Also I am honoured to have been chosen by Insight Timer to provide the Daily Insight on Christmas Day. It will be available in 5, 10 and 20 minute versions and is called The Turning Point. If you are ready for a change in the next orbit of the Sun, it’s an example of another gift that will keep on giving.
p.s. The Turning Point got over 4000 people meditating on Xmas Day and is now available in the archive – https://insig.ht/KpYRTiFiI2
Soulwaves available for pre-order
Last, but by no means least, after 15 years and 15 other books, my first novel – Soulwaves – will be published on the first Full Moon of 2020.
It’s available for pre-order now in paperback, hardback and ebook.
The audiobook has been recorded and uploaded but I have no control of publication date – it is though trickling out to a few platforms like Google Play.
Listen to the channelling from Louisa Tanner Munson to find out why it’s being published on the first Full Moon of 2020.
by Tom Evans | Aug 31, 2019 | Scribing
Artwork by Siri Stiklestad Opli
The month of August has become a big handle turning exercise. September augurs more of the same.
The reason being is that 35 of the 100 chapters of Soulwaves are now narrated. I make no bones about it, it is a huge task and big ask, with no shortcuts.
While it might sound like a lot of hard work, it does feel I am taking my hands off the wheel and coasting down hill to a glorious destination. Apart from anything, I am really enjoying reading my own book back and remembering things I’d forgotten I’d wrote.
Reading a book out loud is simply the best and most thorough way to proof read a book. Here’s why:
#1. If I can read it out loud, a reader can’t read it ‘in loud’. It won’t scan well.
#2. I am spotting forward references I set up in earlier chapters I wrote many months ago that I can pick up and develop subtly in later chapters.
#3. You spot errors even the best editor/proof reader may not have spotted. I’ve found loads and suspect there are more.
August also saw two weeks off with some family support commitments. Due to ongoing support commitments, I plan to have the next third of the book narrated by the time I blog next and the final third completed by the end of October.
This will lead to print and ebook production in November which in turn means publication should be early December.
One of the tricks I use, which is also one I use in writing, is to record the very ending words first. This is the poem I wrote many years ago to describe the essence of what a Soulwave is. It wraps up the book but there’s no spoiler alert as it gives nothing away about the actual ending. Merely it describes how Soulwaves are the fabric of the Universe.
You can listen to it free on Insight Timer …
Soulwaves : A Poem on Entanglement
… also, you can listen to two new meditations on the app this month and a new short story from The Germinatrix and a musical mindful podcast.
Take Your Hands Off the Wheel
Count Your Riches
Moderating Your Mindberg
Mindful Beats With Tyson Baird
p.s. if all of this output seems quite a lot in just one month, it’s just an example of what happens when you take your hands off the wheel
