It’s the bottom of the ninth and I need a vacation.

Three more months. Three more months until I can finally get this camel off my back known as “college”. Thee years and nine months so far of having absolutely no breaks from it since I am a working adult and going to traditional college classes would be a near impossibility. Nearly every week since 2010 I have had to write at least two or three pages on a certain topic and that doesn’t even touch the amount of “discussion” forum posts I’ve had to make.

I am ready for it all to be done. The problem is I will be receiving a bachelor’s degree in psychology and criminal justice. In retrospect I feel those are two solid choices that could open a few doors but at the same time I don’t really live in “Crazytown”, U.S.A or “Everyone’sanevilmastermindtown”, U.S.A either.

I have to hand it to those who are out there working full time and going to college full time. Even though I am doing the same thing I feel other people do much more with their lives even when they have a full plate. Most of the time I feel like I am just lazy. I don’t really socialize and I spend most of my time at home thinking about homework or my next book. Despite graduating in three months I still don’t feel like I have accomplished anything.

I know that can’t be true.

I think my biggest fear is that I will graduate but still have nothing to show for it. The school I am attending just settled a seven million dollar lawsuit and the truth is I cannot even find information as to why they had to settle. That makes me feel unsure about my future. If I threw away four years of my life for something that will end up being worthless then I have no clue where I’m going to go from there.

Gluttony Now in Digital Form!

Gluttony Now in Digital Form!.

Gluttony Now in Digital Form!

Well that took much longer than what I thought it would but now S.I.N Gluttony is available for Kindle and other e-readers!

It is available on all e-book formats and can be found on my amazon page: 

 

Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sin-gluttony-cody-hutton/1119210517?ean=9780991223909

 

and a multitude of other e-readers. Once again I cannot thank everyone enough for the support I have been receiving. It is a dream come true.

I am currently working on S.I.N Wrath and it is coming along quite well. I hope to have it released next spring if time allows.

The King of the Monsters is still the King.

So yeah, Godzilla.

 

This Guy.

I made a little post a few months back about Godzilla and basically all I have to say about the new movie that came out is that it has to be seen on the big screen. A lot of people won’t care about it, much like I couldn’t care less about Jon Hamm finding baseball players in India, but anyone who is a fan of seeing things wrecked and destroyed will not be disappointed with this film. Oh and those that love giant monsters will love it as well.

Those of us who have been around and saw the reviews might be intrigued about the negative posts about how Godzilla is not in this film at all. I hate to be that guy that says “they don’t understand” but the fact of the matter is they do not. Especially if they say they are fans of the Big-G.

Almost every Godzilla movie has that human element in it. The small, minuscule people drive the movie. They outline why the big bad monsters are there and the truth is you don’t really see much of Godzilla in Godzilla movies.

That being said, however, there is well more than enough time dedicated to Big-G. The movie does well in teasing the audience (and if we can’t use the excuse that we’ve been teased too much in other aspects of life you can’t do it here either) to the point of the big payoff and the payoff is just that, HUGE.

I believe a lot of people who look at a film in the negative based on how characters react to a situation do not quite understand how some humans emote in the real world. Without revealing anything there is a character in the film that has to compartmentalize a lot of events that go on so that they can actually complete the goal they set out to do. People may say the character is emotionless, wooden, or just uncaring but that is not what the character wants to feel, but has to.

Long story short I say with full confidence that you must see this movie on the big screen. There is absolutely no greater feeling than feeling your own chair and body shake when you hear that magnificent roar for the first time.

As always Godzilla 2014 is owned by Legendary pictures and the Toho corporation.

Well that took longer than I thought.

So a lot of people have been asking me where the kindle/e-book version of my novel has been and the simple answer is . . . I did not realize it would take almost a month for everything to get smoothed out with the e-book provider. In either case I hope I can get you guys the e-book version out in the next couple of days, if I read it right.

So . . . stay tuned!

Everyone really hates hearing the truth.

It’s true.

I started this blog to try and promote my book and discuss things that I like but I made the ultimate mistake when browsing the internet: I actually came across and read opinions that people throw around like they are facts. It makes the blood boil. Everyone has a right to toss their opinion around, there is nothing wrong with that, but you have to have some sort of logic behind your opinion to make it a valid opinion. If you are on the internet and put yourself out there, whether it be facebook, blogs, or twitter, you have the responsibility to at least have some knowledge on your opinion.

If you do not then your opinion doesn’t matter. That is a fact. For example you could hold the opinion that the sky is actually the color of hate and that rain is secretly the tears of angels. Believe that all you want. Don’t spout it as fact. Furthermore if people call you batshit crazy for believing that you have no right to get defensive of your opinion unless you have facts to back it up.

If you don’t have any facts to back up your opinion then you need to shut the hell up. Simple right? Personal experience can count, but only if that experience has been documented by others as well. Spanking, for example, is a hot topic when it comes to how to discipline your children. There are valid opinions on each side. There is plenty of topic for debate. Saying that spanking children raises them to be murderers, however, is not a valid opinion. You are throwing around an absolute and only assholes deal in absolutes (ironic I know). At the same time it is possible to negotiate with your children to get them to behave, but if you’re dealing with a screaming child in a public place there is a good chance trying to negotiate with a child probably is not the best bet at that point.

There are many, many more topics in this day and age that people throw around as fact: all gun owners are sane individuals. All gun owners are crazy rednecks. Minorities all steal, white people are devils and want to eradicate all minorities, men are all rapists, women are all gold diggers. The list goes on. If you believe any of the previous examples well congratulations, you’re a fucking moron.

We live in a world where we can find information on ANYTHING if one takes the effort to look it up. The internet is an amazing tool to enrich our lives and we can use it to better ourselves for it. You want the truth? We suck. Human’s suck. I don’t mean that in a “we are destroying the world” kind of sucking, but we have all this information at our hands and we still proclaim that our opinion is solid fact without taking time to back up those claims. I’m here to help you. I’m even here to save you.

The next time you have an opinion on a topic take a moment to search your memory: Do you recall having dealt with that topic before? Have you researched anything on that topic? Did you hear it on Fox News? Did you hear it on The Daily Show?

Remember your opinion does matter. Everyone’s opinion does but only if it’s a well thought out, researched opinion. Most people will ignore your opinion if you back them with evidence and there is no greater feeling than knowing that your opinion is more valuable than another’s because you actually have the information to back it up. It may be opinion, but I think everyone loves to win so make sure you stack your corner as much as possible.

Who knew the spring could get so busy.

Hello again everyone. Spring is here, or if you live in Iowa like I do you’ll still have to wonder if we are going to get another snow day. Seriously it snowed here on the 14th I believe. Iowa exists in its own pocket dimension. I swear it.

Regardless time is going by much faster than I want it to. Between school work and my job of mine I have been overloaded, which is fitting since the school year is ending and my job is to ensure everything runs as smooth as possible at the place I observe. Cryptic I know but what can you do?

I’m still working on S.I.N Wrath and chugging away at it. If all goes well and I keep my head to it I should be able to get the first draft done by the end of the summer. That is what I’m hoping anyways. If I lived in a perfect world I could have it cranked out by the end of June. Again in a perfect world.

I do want to just say thanks again to everyone who has been supportive of me throughout all of this. I am just completely blown away by how much people actually get excited that I have a book written. To everyone that does read Gluttony and enjoys it I promise I will do my best to ensure my other books surpass the last. I’ll not only owe it to myself, but all of you to constantly improve my storytelling and writing.

This is a test. Everything always will appear normal.

A while ago I wrote a two part narration about two things we manifest in ourselves at a very young age: courage and fear. That got me thinking about what I am afraid of in life and what event it was that set me off.

My two biggest fears? Spiders and bees. I will not lie to you I will napalm my own house if I see a spider in it that I deem more formidable than what my shoe can handle (I wear a size 18 shoe so give that a thought) and on the other hand bees are the definition of a homing bullet. I don’t care what I am doing or where I am at in the summertime, if any bee spots me its only mission in life is to bring me pain. I hate them more than spiders.

So where did these two phobias of mine originate from? Well the bee one is simple. I was out playing in the yard and having just the best time ever. I was jumping around, bouncing up and down, tumbling as most children do.

Unfortunately when I tumbled my back went right onto a bee that was near a flower. Boom, right there I got a stinger in the back. I didn’t know what it was at the time and I wish my mother at the time would have made up some unknown entity that only existed in this world once every fifty years instead of telling me it was a bee.

A year or two later I was in a new home and the pizza man didn’t know to deliver to the back door. In my bounding glee I tore open the front door, which was never used, and a hornet’s nest that had been so lovingly crafted in the corner outside was jostled from my excitement and a nice blue hornet decided to share its gratitude with me by landing on my hand and burying that stinger deep a few times.

So yes I have a general fear/homicidal tendencies towards bees. Spiders, on the other hand, was a much more creepy introduction.

I knew what spiders were as a kid just as much as I knew what bees were. I just didn’t know bees could be manifestation of pain in flying form. Spiders were sneaky. Spiders would be seen and then when you look away they disappeared. Didn’t pay them no mind.

One night, as a child, I woke in the middle of the night to the sight of a spider dangling about, oh, three inches from my face. I do not think it was a dangerous one but I sat there with my eyes crossed looking at this thing none-the-less. I couldn’t move.  I had to have laid there for several minutes contemplating how to get out of the predicament. I was scared though. Fearful. I finally realized I had the motor skills to scoot myself to the side and tumbled off the bed without any grace at all.

But it all has to start somewhere doesn’t it? There has to be one triggering event in our young lives that jump starts what we know as “fear”. It is not something we just imagine. It isn’t a conjuration of some mysterious thing that lives in our closet or under our bed. Fear is intangible. It can be anything.  We can learn to live with it, conquer it, or let it ruin our lives. It is our choice.

Me? I’m still terrified of bees. If I see a honeybee, the more friendly looking version of flying death, I do not freak out as much but something streamlined like a hornet? Well nowadays I have weapons to fight back and it is usually in the form of some liquid killer. I know some will say that is inhumane and that they will “leave me alone if I leave them alone” but that has never been the case. I could be minding my own business and a bee will put me on its shit-list of things to fuck up for that day. It is either me or them.

As for spiders they don’t bother me any longer. If I am feeling charitable I will maybe launch them outside via some sort of wood plank or paper but if they decide to put up a fight I have no qualms with showing them the fear does not grip me any longer.

So what fears do you have? Do you think about them sometimes or are they something that only you think about when confronted with it? I would love to know.

And with that brief hiatus . . .

I have to admit I was astonished to find out how many people initially were interested in my book. I planned on giving away thirty free copies of my novel to those that I know around me and in other parts of the world. As soon as I got the word out all thirty copies were reserved by people in less than two days. I was floored.

So now that Gluttony is out I can say that my next book is well underway. I feel that I have grown already as a writer and I plan on improving myself with every word I write. My next novel, I am hoping, will be a much meatier read than Gluttony.

On top of that I still have that fantasy story brewing in my head. After this novel I think I might dive in and create that world for sure.

Thanks for the support once again and I will do my best to get some more short stories on this blog.

S.I.N Gluttony is now on Amazon!

The day has finally arrived and I can’t put into words the emotions I am feeling right now. It’s like a mixture of everything hitting me all at once. It has been a long, long road and I will have to put in more work than ever now that it is out. Marketing is so much fun. I’m currently working on the second book in the series and I can only hope that in the next coming years this does take off but even if it doesn’t I can still take solace in the fact that with a little help from my friends and those who supported me I actually got a novel out and into the world.

For those who are interested you can find S.I.N Gluttony here at Amazon and Createspace.

I still need to get the ebook version up and running and it should be available soon as well.