Bass

October 15, 2026UncategorizedAutism, Musicchadwickbaldwin Leave a comment

For reasons, I have been feeling overwhelmed a lot lately. I use the term Overwhelmed, but other use the term over stimulated. Others may say stressed, or that there is too much on my plate.

Over stimulated doesn’t sound right to me, because to me stimulated gives the impression of me having too much energy. It sounds like I am being wound up to go do something, not be worn down, exhausted, and ready to shut down.

Stressed also doesn’t fit the proper feeling either. Stressed gives the impression of deadlines, and overbearing bosses. Not what I am experiencing. Same with Too much on my plate. This term makes it sound like I am trying to do too many things.

I am just trying to survive the days, and stay afloat with a lot of little things in life. And a lunch cafeteria that gets so noisy my brain itches.

I have been using low sounds to calm myself. Listening to Bass singers like Geoff Castellucci, Payton Parish and Miracle of Sound have been helpful but songs with a strong bass guitar will do in a pinch.

The low voices and guitar can be felt through me, and helps hold-off a meltdown or shut down. I have been using them a lot lately. I have a “Bass” Playlist. I am on the hunt for other deep voices to add to my playlist. I am willing to try all genres for now, but prefer calming music, so Motorhead would not help much.

I have always enjoyed deep voices, and my daughter actually complains sometimes that I listen to them a lot off my you-tube account a lot after work.

I have not checked into the science of why it helps, and I might next week, but lately I have not been up to it. I just know the deeper the sound or voice, the more soothing it is, especially if I am able to isolate and listen. Or close my eyes and listen.

Languages

October 11, 2026Uncategorizedchadwickbaldwin Leave a comment

I have been writing a story for a while, and it is a Next generation kind of story based upon works my friends and I wrote back in college. The problem was those stories were often fan-fiction based with OCs added. So of course I had to go back and see what was salvageable for a publishable story.

As I reread the first story, and tweaked it to remove what I could of the copyrighted material, I got to see my old notes on language. You see the first story was actually trilingual. I had the characters speaking English, Japanese and Atlantean.

I had to go back and correct the Japanese, because it was poorly written, and mostly what a teenager could do with a rudimentary understanding of Japanese grammar and a dictionary. It wasn’t incomprehensible, but it didn’t sound natural.

But the other was my own Atlantean with its own grammar and vocabulary. Now my original notes on this language are locked away in a storage space in another country. So I went back over it, and realized that the notes I had in that storage had added a lot from Mark Okrand’s language created for Disney, BUT my story had not gotten that far, and the entire grammar structure and lexicon were 100% mine.

So I reviewed the language the last few days and made tweaks to make it clearer, and recreated my dictionary and grammar notes. I really enjoyed it. And to make my language noticeably different from Disney’s Atlantean language, I spent a moment thinking about what the locals would call their own language and named it Muirmet. (from the ocean).

No I have not compiled the writing system yet but my notes are available on my Patreon. (free)

Please enjoy.

Writing & Creativity.

October 4, 2026Uncategorizedchadwickbaldwin Leave a comment

I have been writing for as long as I can remember. I have lost so many things that I remember writing as a child, and would love to revisit, but alas I cannot.

Unfortunately there was a 15~20 year break where I didn’t really produce much as adult life got in the way. I don’t mean I didn’t write, I mean I didn’t write much. a lot of what I wrote during that time is currently locked away in a storage room while I live abroad.

So When I started to pick up the pen (figuratively), a few years ago it was fantastic. I had a blog for years, but didn’t really use it for much. (Like most on Livejournal, I used it for griping about how unfair life was) I set us a few different blog sites. I have this obsession with keeping different streams of thought separate, so I had a blog for Board games, a Blog for life, and a blog for cultural observations as I traveled. I eventually moved my life blog into the observations blog, as they were closey ties, and I probably have’t logged into my Livejournal in 10 years or more.

About 5 years ago I started playing D&D with some coworkers, and I created a journal of an NPC with a whole year of filled notes, for my Players to get and read. They loved that, and One even complimented me on my writing style. So for the rest of that game, after every 2 sessions or So I would have that NPC update their journal, with what happened form their perspective. I kept this on one of the blogs I mentioned earlier. My players enjoyed reading those.

Then 3 years ago I turned the original part of that journal into a novel. It went up on Amazon, and My father was the first person to buy a copy. I worked on the 2nd novel in the series off and on, but when my father passed last year, I stopped writing. For almost a year I didn’t post on my blog, I didn’t work on my novels (I have 2 in the works), nothing.

I don’t know If I will finish the sequel to “The Sisak Tower“, I hope so. but it is still on the back burners. It’s hard to get into it right now, but the fact that my father, who only read military novels, bought and read my fantasy novel had a good positive impact. and I want to make sure the sequel is one that he would have appreciated as well.

So for the time being I am working on a different novel. Gateways. (Working title).

Every week I will post a chapter from one of these two novels on my new Patreon, or some other side project I am working on / have worked on, for you to enjoy.