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2025 To Do List

It's Make or Break Time

By DaMaGe Published about a year ago Updated about a year ago 7 min read
2025 To Do List
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The last 8 years have been hard for me. I hurt myself and my dominant arm which makes writing, typing and drawing hard. I have notebooks full of synopses of books I'd like to write including a Terminator-Esque book that starts in the far future and ends with the molten origin of our Earth and would be a catalyst to a comic book universe. Another one about the positives and possible complications that will come from our advance into the solar system as we begin to harvest asteroids. Along with a book based on my friend and I's Dungeons and Dragons characters over the years. And for some reason, every time I create one story there are at least 2 stories that follow. In those mentioned above a group of people travel back in time instead of just one and then one that travels forward in time. We go from asteroid mining to comet mining to living in the Oort Cloud. And the Dungeon's and Dragon's story has 7 books, starting with the rise to power of an evil elf and then following his son for 3 more books with a final battle as the last book all based in my own surroundings.

Unfortunately, I find it hard to concentrate due to the pain I'm in constantly and once I start one project, I write for as long as I can and set it aside and usually only start writing once something new clicks in my mind. Currently, the latest was a book series based on the idea that intelligent life has evolved on every planet, including the gas and ice giants. But I have them on hold currently.

My current goals include, finishing my story that Vocal suggestions led me to write. I have one or 2 more stories that should make it publishable. Unfortunately, the stories are out of order since that is how I wrote them. They are The Thing Trapped In Time stories found on my Vocal page. I also would like to get into movies, though my first steps would be through sequels to popular franchises including Star Trek, Marvel and Gremlins. I plan on taking a Masterclass I learned about to show me how to get into the business. But it sucks because I had a great Star Trek screenplay written and due to the events of Picard, I now need to rewrite a good deal of it. I'm also doing homework for a fourth Deadpool based on a classic comics story. I just am not certain it could ever see the light of day as the cast and story would be too epic. Even with this and my Gremlins movies I have 3 more movies in mind. But without funds and the inability to write continuously, I'm afraid they will just be stuck in my imagination.

Another avenue I am contemplating pursuing is voice actor work. I have continuously made strange voices and other sounds conductive to such work. I've done some research, and I need to get a reel of the voices I can do as well as the sounds I can make. I found most of the information on YouTube and plan on contacting a recording studio to see how much they charge or see if I have enough tools of my own to create such a compilation on my own. What I saw online says it helps to have professional equipment, but that you do not necessarily need them.

What I really need to do is write something to try to make money. I'm worried about my future. I have been fighting for Social Security Disability for 8 years now. I am worried that not only will I not be able to get it because they claim I am too young for the issues I have, but that it may not be there. I have been a harsh critic of the Affordable Care Act, mainly because it altered MediCare and MediCaid and may have altered Social Security too. It also says you have to have insurance but says nothing about your doctors taking all insurance. To be honest that thing is a tome of legalese. I only know as much as I do about it because I listened to it being read before it was implemented. But there is a chance that if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, those 3 could be altered completely to the point that they are repealed as well. So, I need to think outside of the box and try to do something on my own if I can.

Last year most of my writing was political in nature. I edited an amendment to the Constitution of the United States that I titled, A Declaration of Rights and Responsibilities. It compiled the rights mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, The United States Constitution, The Bill of Rights, as well as the other 17 amendments, given that presidents, states and even corporations have eroded them over the years. It also listed the responsibilities that come with them, such as not being able to yell fire in a crowded building, which is a responsibility that limits the first amendment's freedom of speech. I even wrote a Federalist Papers like description of why I made changes and what all of the words are meant to mean, so that if it is ever adopted it is understood for generations to come. I also wrote an amendment giving term limits to Congress and the Supreme Court. I am not too happy with the way I limited presidents from choosing justices that are only from their political ideology, but the majority of people should be represented by the court, not just the party in control. Currently, that would mean that Independents would have justices on the court, so I'm not certain that would help things much and I have expanded the number of justices and made it so that 3 main justices represent the genders and main demographics of our land as well as setting it that there are 2 justices added for every 10 states or territories making the current total 13. But I am not too keen about opening up the Constitution in the next 4 years if not longer.

I also wrote up a 2-state solution and a 3-state solution to the Israel/Palestine issue based on Biblical and I would imagine Koranic history as well. The 2-state involves making a northern and southern state. The 3-state makes Jerusalem a UNESCO world heritage site that is controlled by the various denominations of the 3 Abrahamic religions. Since all 3 should believe that there was a place called Judah, and Israel in past times the northern state would be Palestine, and the southern state would be Israel. It makes sense since the 2 lost tribes from Judah may have interbred with non-Jewish locals, but I am certain there would be issues with even that set up, as Israelis and Palestinians would have to work together to forge those 2 states into productive lands where they welcomed each other as friends, not enemies as they have been for centuries now. I also want to rewrite a letter I wrote to Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the beginning of the Ukrainian conflict. Especially since my first letter when the war first began was rather naive. But I was trying to stop it in its tracks before we got to year 3 of the conflict.

I was hoping I could spend this year being more political by starting a Political Action Commitee for the Americans For Tyranny's Enduring Removal Party I started, but I will probably be spending it offering my solutions to problems that come about. But I would really like to spend the beginning of the year trying to make a living doing something I am more passionate about. Since 2019, I spent a lot of time trying to run for President on my own. It was only a joke because even my friends and family were not behind me. Now I'm playing up that joke by not conceding. To be honest it's not a job I really want. But it would be one I am willing to accept should it be thrust upon me. Instead, I need to work on more concrete offerings in an attempt to be able to get a secretary and an editor to help me write and type everything stuck up in my head. I keep hoping some things I wrote to Scientific American or Astronomy Magazine help me with that too, but I would imagine what I noticed during the eclipse would have been noticed by now and that it may take the creation of element 132 for them to get me any income. I am also working on Dark Matter, have an idea of what Dark Energy is and have a way to fix the Standard Model of physics. But I need a teacher to answer all of my questions for any of that to do anything.

My main goal is to have something published by 2026. Whether it's a collection of short stories, one of my movie ideas, one of my scientific ideas, a voice acting gig or even a book. I know the idea I got from Vocal to write a story about dragons could lead to a whole series on its own. I just am and have not been happy that my life is subject to the whims of government employees and politicians and really do not want it to continue that way. But perhaps then, I could afford to pay someone to help me with the things my disability has taken from me and get off of it as soon as possible. As I go into my 9th year come March and with the inauguration of another president, it is make or break time. I'm broken enough, so it's time to make it. I hope the same for whoever reads this. Thank you for your time! I hope this can inspire you to follow your dreams as well.

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About the Creator

DaMaGe

It's pronounced Dah-Mah-Jay. I'm a Scientific, Philosophical, Artistic Atheist, that writes science fiction, political, and fantasy with a flair of science and logic that opens other people's minds to new ideas. Enjoy!

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